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.

The High Court in Barbados can no longer impose mandatory death sentences on convicted murderers.

Cairo Criminal Court issued preliminary death sentences on six people convicted of attacking a Qalyubiya police checkpoint, killing one sergeant, in 2016.

An appeals court in Sudan has overturned the death sentence of a woman who killed her husband after he allegedly raped her, her lawyer says.