Four people, two of them women, from Ngara District have been sentenced to death after they were convicted of murder.

26 february 2018: according to a local judicial source, the Egyptian authorities executed six people, five from the same family.

Burkina Faso's parliament has abolished the death penalty by adopting a new penal code that strikes it as a possible sentence.

President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the first ever mercy plea placed before him

Specialized criminal court in the capital Sanaa has sentenced to death seven supervisors of Ansarallah movement over criminal cases.

The Supreme Court upheld the death sentences earlier handed down to Aliaksandr Zhylnikau and Viachaslau Sukharko for the murder of three people.

Somali military court handed a death sentence to two Al-Shabaab operatives for their role in the deadly attack on Nasa Hablod hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.

The Galle High Court handed down the death sentences to three suspects found guilty of murder.

Botswana continued executions this year, with the hanging of another death row inmate in 2018.

The implementation of the death penalty for drug offences has all but ended in Iran, although human rights advocates continue to express concern at the judicial system’s response to drugs.

A tribunal in Narayanganj awarded capital punishment to three people for killing a garment worker after rape.

Ethiopia pardoned an opposition leader with British citizenship who had been sentenced to death, the latest in a series of pardons and releases of jailed dissidents announced in the wake of years of violent unrest.