Iranian authorities executed a man for drug related charges on September 15, 2018.

The FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2017, released by the U.S. Department of Justice, reports that murder rates stabilized across the United States in 2017, decreasing marginally compared to adjusted homicide figures from 2016 but remaining above the record lows recorded earlier in the decade.

The Pattani Provincial Court on September 19, 2018 sentenced Su-ai-mee Sama-ae and Sama-ae Mamah to death for their role in the 2017 Big C department store bomb attack.

A 40-year-old Singaporean woman on September 20, 2018 was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty after she was caught selling drugs.

Three Egyptian men were sentenced to death on September 24, 2018 by the Criminal Court after being convicted of killing their compatriot in Amman in December 2015.

Two Iraqis were sentenced to death on September 24, 2018 after being convicted earlier of killing 12 civilians in Iraq’s western Anbar province.

Iranian judiciary authorities on September 23, 2018 issued the death penalty to a Kurdish inmate over political activities and alleged membership in a Kurdish party.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on September 24, 2018 upheld death sentences for 20 people convicted of killing 13 policemen during violent unrest after the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

The deaths sentences against three Mexican brothers - Jose Regino, Simon and Luis Alfonso Gonzalez Villarreal - convicted of drug trafficking in Malaysia have been commuted to prison terms, a lawyer said on September 21, 2018.

Mo Huanjing, a former nanny who had been sentenced to death for starting a fire that killed four members of a family in 2017, was executed on September 21, 2018 in east China's Zhejiang Province, a local court said.

A military court in Beledweyne on September 22, 2018 sentenced a soldier to death for killing a civilian in the district late last month.

According to the state-run news agency, Mizan, on the morning of September 22, 2018 nine prisoners were executed at Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz.