Hussein Hassan Mahmoud Ma'da, a soldier in the Somali National Army, has been sentenced to death by firing squad for the murder of Sergeant Major Shafi'i Mohamed Hansi Ali, a group commander, HOL reported on March 26, 2025.

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A Dhaka tribunal has sentenced three individuals to death in connection with the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl in Keraniganj, Dhaka, three years ago.

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4m in compensation, an official said on March 24, 2025.

The Specialised Criminal Court of Appeal (SCCA) on February 25, 2025 sentenced Saudi protestor Mohammad Labbad to the death penalty.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria on March 7, 2025 upheld the death sentence of Sunday Jackson, a farmer in his 30s, for killing a Fulani herdsman, Ardo Bawuro, in an altercation on his farmland.