Al-Shabaab militant group has shot dead an elder, who took part in 2016 elections as a delegate.
According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Tabriz Central Prison.
An Omani woman and her accomplice have been sentenced to death for murdering her husband, according to the Public Prosecution.
Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the Tehran prosecutor general, announced that 1,700 sentences of narcotic-related cases have been commuted from capital punishment and life sentence to less severe forms of punishment.
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,
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is an iranian writer and political activist condemned to six years of prison for having written a script, not published, that criticized the practice of stoning in Iran.
