The Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Lafia on 11 December 2018 sentenced Amina Zubairu, wife of the late monarch to death by hanging for killing her husband, NAN reports.

According to Iranian media outlets reports, an unnamed prisoner was hanged on the rape charges on the morning of 9 December 2018 at Qazvin Central Prison.

A serial rapist who raped nine women in North Hamgyong Province’s Onsong County has been publicly executed by firing squad, local sources have reported.

Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Eje'i announced on 9 December 2018 that the Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence against Hamid Baqeri-Darmani for bribery and fraud which was issued in a lower court.

A prisoner was hanged on the charge of rape at Gorgan Central Prison on 4 December 2018

Two prisoners were hanged on 8 December 2018 at the prisons of Karaj and Bandar Abbas.

Iran on 6 December 2018 executed 12 prisoners in Kerman Central Prison, most of them convicted of drug charges.

This year, seven people, including one child, were hanged, the highest number since South Sudan gained independence in 2011, according to evidence provided to Amnesty International by legal professionals and government officials.

In a stern action against an Honor Killing case in Haryana, a court awarded death penalty to a man on 5 December 2018 who was guilty of murdering his sister.

Two men convicted of drug trafficking escaped the gallows on 5 December 2018, after the Court of Appeal found them not guilty and acquitted them in a split 2-1 decision.

A Delhi court on 19 November 2018 awarded death penalty to one of the accused in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The conviction of Yashpal Singh came as first capital punishment in the case.