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On June 7, 2026, a trial court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced a couple to death for the rape and subsequent murder of eight-year-old Ramisa Akter.
1,993 people on death row
2,004 people on death row
A High Court of Kogi State, Nigeria, on June 16, 2026 imposed the death penalty on a man prosecuted for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour, who ran a hotel in Obajana.
