Alva Campbell, the terminally ill prisoner whom Ohio unsuccessfully attempted to execute in November, has died of his illness.
An Egyptian court sentenced 10 people to death after they were convicted of forming a terrorist group and planning attacks on police and security forces, judicial sources said.
Singapore executed a Ghanaian man for drug smuggling, rejecting his plea for clemency.
The leader of an Iranian spiritual movement, whose repeated death sentences drew UN and US condemnation, has been given a five-year jail term after a second retrial, his lawyer said.
A Japanese court sentenced a Peruvian man to hang for killing six people over several days in 2015 near Tokyo.
The Bahrain Court of Appeal confirmed the death sentence of 15 and the prison sentences of nineteen.
An inmate, Ehsan Yaghoubi was hanged in the Central Prison of Ilam, in western Iran.
The young engineer accused of raping and murdering 7-year-old Hasini in Chennai last February was sentenced to death by a Chengalpet Court, Tamil Nadu.
A young man identified as Hamid Imani was executed in the Central Prison of Hamedan, western Iran.
A Minsk-based human rights group says that more than four months ago Belarusian authorities executed a man who had been convicted of killing his own children.
An alleged serial killer sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court on March 7 for torturing and murdering a woman may have claimed at least seven other victims, authorities said.
The Egyptian parliament approved a new draft law raising the punishment of possessing explosives up to execution when used in terrorist attacks, the parliament said in a statement.
