Lao Rongzhi, a woman in the spotlight for her involvement in multiple killings, was executed on December 18, 2023 after China's top court approved her death sentence.
Justice Sandil Kissoon of the High Court in Guyana on December 14, 2023 sentenced five men to death for the 2016 piracy attack that claimed the lives of four fishermen.
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Saudi authorities have executed a citizen after he had been convicted of fatally stabbing his mother and sister and burnt their bodies.