The Indian state of West Bengal on September 3, 2024 passed a law, the Aprajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, which introduces the death penalty for rape cases that result in the victim’s death or leave them in a vegetative state.

A military court in Puntland has confirmed the death sentence of 50-year-old Abdisalan Salad Shuaib, who was convicted of spying for the militant group Al-Shabaab, Hiiran On Line reported August 13, 2024.

Saudi Arabia has executed three people in Riyadh convicted of terror-related charges, the Ministry of Interior said on September 8, 2024.

Kuwait on September 5, 2024 carried out the death sentences issued against six individuals who were convicted of murder, in the first hangings in the country in two years.

The Odisha High Court on Wednesday commuted death sentence of one Nabin Dehury to imprisonment for life till his natural death without remission or commutation.

According to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, an Afghan national named Abdul Qayyum Shinwari was executed on August 31, 2024 in the city of Mecca.