At least ten prisoners, including three Afghan citizens, were reportedly hanged at Taybad Prison (Razavi Khorasan province, northeastern Iran) on drug related charges.

Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced the execution of two male convicts on death row, reports the Sankei Shimbun.

The military court of Somalia’s northeastern region of Puntland, has issued death sentences and life imprisonment to 5 al-Shabaab suspects accused on terrorism charges, Garowe Online reports.

The Saudi authorities have executed four men who were convicted in a secret ‘terrorism’ court – including at

An Egyptian court sentenced 12 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to death over breaking into a police station, official news agency MENA reported.

At least three death convicts who were involved in the killing of three members of same family.

Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia, the government said, the highest number of executions in a single day this year.

Two prisoners were hanged in public on rape charges.

India's new anti-hijacking law that entails capital punishment for the perpetrators in case of death of any person, has come into force.

Police nationwide shot and killed 492 people in the first six months of this year, a number nearly identical to the count for the same period in each of the prior two years.

Four prisoners were reportedly hanged on the morning at Urmia's central prison on drug related charges.

Eight prisoners were reportedly hanged on the morning at Rajai Shahr Prison.