The self-declared Republic of Somaliland on November 1st, 2023 executed five men for murder in Hargeisa.

Bangladesh’s High Court on October 30, 2023 commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants to life in prison for their role in a 2016 attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka, that killed 20 people, mostly foreigners.

At an unspecified prison in Golestan province

Three men were sentenced to death on five counts each in a case involving the murder of five people in Barki area, Dunya News reported on October 31, 2023.

648 executions so far in 2023

Peshawar High Court has commuted death sentence awarded to a convict to life imprisonment for killing four of his close family members including his father and brother in Nowshera district around six years ago, Dawn reported on October 30, 2023.

Hou Xiaofei, the man who went on a stabbing spree and injured 15 people in a hospital in Shanghai last summer, was sentenced to death by the Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court on October 27, 2023.

This year's Human Rights Committee review of the US shone a light on "the other death penalty" – death by incarceration