defying intense pressure from the international community, the government executed eight drug convicts at 12:30 a.m. on Nusakambangan prison island near Cilacap in Central Java.
another murder convict was hanged at the district jail of Vehari, raising the total number of executions to 99
Two persons found guilty over a murder carried out in the Hingurakgoda area in 2000 have been sentenced to death by the Polonnaruwa High Court.
Malaysia's highest court upheld the conviction and death penalty of three Mexican brothers, a Singaporean and a Malaysian in a high-profile drugs case.
A convicted murderer was hanged at Vehari’s District Jail, raising the total number of executions to 98 since
A Vietnam court gave capital punishment and a life sentence to two Laotian brothers who illegally
The Fast Track Division of the Accra High Court has sentenced a 41-year-old man to death by hanging.
Iran hanged a group of nine men including a 70-year-old who had been held in prison for the past fourteen years, allegedly for drug-related offences.
Saudi Arabia executed three more people between 23 and 24 April, bringing to 68 the number of Saudis and foreigners executed in the kingdom this year.
Authorities in Egypt have hanged five people convicted of murder and theft, the interior ministry said.
A drug trafficker was executed in south China’s Guangdong Province following approval by the Supreme People’s Court.
Al-Shabaab said it had executed a man in the south of the country for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
