396 executions since the beginning of 2023

213 women executed since 2007

The Japanese Supreme Court on July 3, 2023 upheld the death sentence for a man convicted over the deaths of three people, scrapping his appeal to finalize the ultimate penalty handed down to him in earlier district and high court rulings.

The Abolition of the Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023 (Act 846) will come into force in Malaysia on July 4, 2023.

Saudi Arabia on July 3, 2023 put to death five people convicted of carrying out a deadly attack on a house of worship, state media said, the biggest group execution this year.

Earlier this month, two female farm workers in Chongdam County, South Hwanghae Province, were publicly executed for breaking the channel lock on their television and secretly watching South Korean programs, Daily NK has learned.

Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on June 15, 2023 convicted and sentenced two middle-aged men to death by hanging for kidnapping and killing a prominent Rivers State businessman, Festus Mac-Pepple and one Friday Uranta in 2008.

A man who killed his wife and then attempted to hide her body in a freezer in Shanghai was sentenced to death on June 29, 2023.