A Telangana court on March 10, 2025 pronounced the sentence in the 2018 Miryalaguda honour killing case. The hired killer, Subhash Sharma, was given the death penalty, while all others accused were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Indonesian Foreign Ministry has vowed to provide legal aid to Linda Yuliana, an Indonesian citizen facing the death penalty in Ethiopia after being convicted in a drug smuggling case.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav said on March 8, 2025 that his govt would amend the law to provide for death penalty for forced religious conversion of girls.

The High Court on January 27, 2025 commuted the death sentences of three convicts in the 2017 rape and murder of college student Zakia Sultana Rupa in a moving bus near Modhupur upazila in Tangail.