Eight more death row convicts were hanged in different jails of Punjab, including father and son.

A Saudi man on the death row for killing his relative was saved after the victim's father pardoned him just days before his execution.

Three murder convicts were hanged in Pakistan between July 27 and 28 as executions resumed following a one-month break during the holy month of Ramazan that ended last week.

A Libyan court sentenced Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, and eight others to death

Five men were hanged in Iran between July 25 and 26.

Saudi Arabia carried out its first execution in five weeks after a pause for Ramadan, beheading one of its citizens convicted of a double murder.

According to official reports, 12 prisoners were hanged to death in Iran.

Just 5 % of the 1,790 death sentences handed down by trial courts in the last 15 years have been confirmed by the Supreme Court.

the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has stated that Sheldon Lloyd Carter, of Upper St. Barbs

The Syrian government has reportedly sentenced five leading opponents of the regime, including dissident intellectual Michel Kilo and Al-Jazeera journalist Faisal al-Qassem, to death in absentia.

Tunisia's parliament approved imposition of the death penalty for "terrorist" crimes, despite opposition from rights groups and a de facto quarter-century moratorium on executions.

Uriah Woods was sentenced to death in Tobago for the murder of his wife Sandra Miller and attempted