Since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90 case files were reportedly opened in the city of Qazvin (central Iran) for individuals who were caught eating or drinking during the fasting hours.

Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to respect its moratorium on the death penalty after calls for its reinstatement following the murder of a young student that shocked the country.

The head of the State Duma Committee for Security has proposed allowing Russian courts to sentence convicted terrorists to death under condition that the execution of the sentence is delayed until the current moratorium on capital punishment is lifted.

Robert Melson, 46, Black, was executed. Melson was convicted in 1996 and sentenced to death for the murders of three workers at a fast food restaurant on April 16, 1994.

A Pakistani court has sentenced to death a man who allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook, a prosecutor said, in a first such case that involves social media.

A prisoner identified as Homayoun Toolabi was reportedly hanged at Khorramabad Prison on murder charges.

A court awarded death sentence to an accused for his involvement in a murder case in Faisalabad

The Namakkal Additional District Court awarded capital punishment to two persons in connection with a triple murder that took place in 2011.

China handed down a suspended death sentence on a former railways minister for corruption, state media said, a case seen as a test of President Xi Jinping’s resolve to crack down on pervasive graft.

A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death for killing a woman in 2015.

A Kenyan woman was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court after she was found guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine four years ago.

A Thai court sentenced two men to death for murdering another Thai man over his iPhone 7, a court official told dpa.