A Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on September 25, 2025 for drug trafficking, raising the number of executions in the city-state to 11 this year despite renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.

The Taliban publicly flogged 17 people in Kabul on drug-related charges on September 22, 2025, the group’s supreme court announced, as corporal punishment continues across Afghanistan.

Kuching Federal Court on September 23, 2025 upheld the death sentence imposed on a Sri Aman pharmacist convicted of murdering his wife in 2018.

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A court in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur on September 18, 2025 awarded the death penalty to a 38-year-old man for the rape and murder of his seven-year-old niece, a government lawyer said on September 19, adding that the court also imposed a fine of Rs 13,000 on him.

The High Court in Eldoret has issued a major ruling reducing the sentence of a man who had spent more than a decade on death row.