Inmates at the Kamiti Maximum Prison called on the Supreme Court to rule on the petition seeking determination of the constitutionality of the death sentence.

The death penalty does little to deter crimes or serve victims, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, calling on all countries which have not forbidden the extreme practice to urgently stop executions.

California regulators for the second time rejected a proposed new method of carrying out the death penalty by lethal injection, another move that slows the process for California to resume executing death row inmates.

A student who robbed a fellow student and his cousin at knife-point has been sentenced to death.

October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty and Hands Off Cain dedicates it to Iran, the country that continues to record the largest number of per capita executions in the world.

A 26-year-old Saudi national studying in Egypt was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Alexandria for murdering his Libyan-born wife, according to Sabq newspaper

With the help of jurors, Justice Monfred Momoh Sesay at the Bo High Court convicted and sentenced to death six armed robbers for Conspiracy and Robbery with Aggravation.

According to the Iranian state-run news agency Mehr, on the morning of October 8, a prisoner was executed at Qazvin Central Prison. This prisoner was sentenced to death for drug related charges.

Thirteen convicts out of 44 were sentenced to death over charges of killing police personnel in a case dubbed in the media as “Soldiers of Egypt Cell.”

The Gujarat high court commuted the death penalty awarded by a lower court to 11 convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case to life imprisonment.

A Turkish court found 42 former soldiers guilty of trying to kill President Tayyip Erdogan during last year’s failed coup, and handed most of them life sentences in the highest profile case related to the attempted putsch so far.

Michael Lambrix, 57, White, was executed.