Saudi Arabia executed on 29 October 2018 an Indonesian maid for killing her boss – while he was trying to rape her.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir decided to pardon death sentenced South African William Endley, SAnews reported on 1 November 2018.

According to the IHR sources, Nouri Yarkhorshidi, 35, was executed on 28 October 2018 at Bandar Abbas Prison.

In a major verdict Sessions Judge SK Tekam on 31 October 2018 awarded capital punishment, ‘Hang till Death’ to a man for rape and killing a four-year-old girl.

Bahraini courts on 29 October 2018 upheld death sentences against two anti-regime activists and revoked the citizenship of six others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.

A female prisoner detained in Khoy Prison, who was arrested on November 2016, was accused of adultery (sex outside marriage) after being sued by her husband and has been sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch 1), the Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported on 31 October 2018.

Pakistan's Supreme Court on 31 October 2018 acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row for almost eight years on blasphemy charges.

Rodney Scott Berget, 56, White, was executed on 29 October 2018.

Parliament has passed the Narcotics Control Act 2018 with a provision for death penalty to the people convicted of yaba manufacture, distribution and trade, bdnews24 reported on 27 October 2018.

A Malaysian drug courier who escaped the gallows last year after the High Court reduced his charge, was on 25 October 2018 sentenced to the death penalty after the Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on 26 October 2018 commuted to rigorous imprisonment for 20 years the death sentence awarded to a rickshaw driver who was accused of penetrating a four-year-old girl with his finger after a five-day trial.

An Asian man has appealed his death sentence after being accused of murdering his neighbor and trying to rape his wife, khaleejtimes reported on 25 October 2018.