Japan executed on June 27, 2025 a man convicted of the 2017 serial murders of nine people near Tokyo, the government said, marking the country's first hanging since July 2022.
Per lethal injection
By lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman
HoC signs the collective statement
Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case, AP reported on June 26, 2025.