fifty-two people in Trinidad & Tobago convicted of murder had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment after Justice Nolan Bereaux at the Port-of-Spain High Court ruled in favour of a Constitutional motion brought by the prisoners, that they be removed from Death Row.

Iran suspended the punishment of death by stoning, state media announced.

Kargozaran newspaper said that Iran’s judiciary has approved the death sentence for a young man who committed murder as a minor.

the public relations unit of the Sistan-Baluchestan Province judiciary department in Iran announced that the Zahedan Islamic Revolution Court issued a ruling on the execution of Bahram Nikpur.

Iran hanged a man for a murder committed at the age of 15, in violation of an international convention on child rights, reports said. Reza Hejazi, 20, was hanged in a prison in the central city of Isfahan for stabbing a man to death in a fight in 2003, the reformist Etemad newspaper said.

Iran hanged two convicted of drug smuggling inside a Tehran prison, the state run news agency Quds reported

Vehari Jail officials in Pakistan hanged a man for murder, the first execution since the establishment of the jail.

two condemned prisoners, Abbas Ali e Amanat Ali, were hanged in Sahiwal jail in Pakistan for killing two people, including a constable in Chichawatni two years ago. Their bodies were handed over to their families for burial.

a court in Iran handed death sentences to four men including a minor for raping a man after a fight, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported.

a man was hanged in Zahedan, Iran, on charges of adultery. According to the public relations unit of the main judiciary department of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the suspect Hasan Sadeqpur was sentenced to death by hanging on charges of adultery following a sentence handed down by the provincial penal court.

an Iranian court sentenced to death a Kurdish student, Habibollah Latifi, his lawyer Nemat Ahmadi announced.

in a major reprieve in the United Arab Emirates, a Sharjah court pardoned two Indian migrant workers.