According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Tabriz Central Prison.

An Omani woman and her accomplice have been sentenced to death for murdering her husband, according to the Public Prosecution.

Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the Tehran prosecutor general, announced that 1,700 sentences of narcotic-related cases have been commuted from capital punishment and life sentence to less severe forms of punishment.

In Pakistan, a 19-year-old woman was sentenced to death after she accused her brother of raping her, threatening with a gun.

The Punjab cabinet decided to recommend to the Centre death penalty for drug smugglers.

Iraq executed a dozen death row jihadists on the order of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, his office said

The Dhi Qar Criminal Court in southern Iraq has sentenced two Daesh militants to death for involvement in terrorist attacks.

According to a close source, on the morning two prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj.

According to Amnesty International sources, Abolfazl Chazani Sharahi, a juvenile offender charged with murder at the age of 15, was executed at Qom Central Prison.

Danny Paul Bible, 66, White, was executed Wednesday for a 1979 rape and murder that went unsolved for 2 decades until he confessed.

The government is looking into the need to make amendments to do away with the mandatory death penalty in legislation pertaining to criminal offences,

A prisoner was executed on murder charge at Tabriz central prison this morning.