Chinese authorities have executed a man for murdering his associate, billionaire gaming tycoon Lin Qi.
Joseph Clifton Smith
Halted after an hour of attempts to insert the intravenous lines
Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced seven persons, including twin brothers, to death by hanging over the abduction and murder of Reverend Edwin Isaiah Dokubo-Harry in 2013.
A court in Meherpur on May 24, 2025 sentenced a man to death over raping an 11-year-old girl last year.
For close to a quarter of a century, death row inmate Hiroko Kazama’s every movement in her 3½ tatami-size cell at the Tokyo Detention House has been watched.
A POCSO court in Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) on May 25, 2026 awarded double death sentence to a 38-year-old man convicted in the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl from Vilathikulam.
Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo “Hemetti” has ratified an in absentia death sentence against defected Brigadier General Ali Rizqallah, known as “Al-Safna”
Myanmar on May 14, 2026 published a parliamentary bill proposing the death sentence for those who detain or violently coerce people into working in online scam centers.
