The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has upheld the death sentences imposed on four men convicted in the 2015 abduction, sexual assault and murder of Tamil schoolgirl Sivaloganathan Vithya in Pungudutivu, Jaffna.

Political prisoner

In Razavi Khorasan Province

Fast Track Special Court Judge M. D. Sumati on May 8, 2026 awarded death penalty by hanging to Kaka alias Karnas in the sexual assault and murder of a nine-year-old girl in March 2024.

The Knesset on May 11, 2026 night passed a law to establish a special military tribunal to try Palestinian terrorists accused of committing atrocities during the October 7, 2023, invasion, with 93 votes in favor and none opposed.

The Chhattisgarh High Court, in a judgment delivered on May 1, 2026, commuted the death sentence of a 25-yr-old man to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life.