Islamic State militants in Iraq publicly stoned a man and woman to death on charges of adultery, parading the victims in a public square in the northern city of Mosul, according to witnesses and an Iraqi military official.

A person found guilty for the possession of 303.5 grams of heroin was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court today.

The death sentence for the police officer who murdered German photographer Anja Niedringhaus in Afghanistan last April has been commuted. The country's highest court has ruled he serve 20 years jail instead, AP says.

Iran secretly hanged at least 12 inmates in prisons in cities of Shiraz and Mashhad.

A police officer was sentenced to death in Somaliland following the murder of famous businessman in Qoton.

The Ministry of Justice has proposed abolishing the death penalty for a number of crimes including robbery and heroin smuggling, reducing it to life sentence at most.

Central Criminal Court sentenced two convicted, one of them is from Tajikistan and the other is from Saudi Arabia to death.

An Egyptian military court upheld death sentences for seven people convicted of belonging to a Sinai-based militant group that bombed a military checkpoint in northern Cairo, a lawyer has said.

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani national and a Saudi man after sentencing them to death for drug trafficking and murder.

another murder convict was hanged in Faisalabad's Central Jail after being on death row for around two decades.

after rejecting mercy petitions of 22 convicts on death row, President Pranab Mukherjee commuted the death sentence of a convict to life imprisonment.

six more death row prisoners were executed in various jails across Punjab and Sindh provinces, bringing the number of executions to 59 since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.