The Taliban's foreign minister has criticised its leading economic ally and political supporter, Tehran, for the high number of executions in Iran, Farsi media reported.

An Accra High Court has sentenced to death a 33-year-old man for throwing his two-year-old son into the sea at Akuma Village, Accra, as sacrifice in his bid to become rich, Ghana News Agency reported on August 10, 2023.

Four convicted killers housed in the condemned section of the Port of Spain prison at Frederick Street for decades have had their death sentences vacated

Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on August 28, 2023.

Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district.

President Vo Van Thuong on August 30, 2023 decided to reduce death penalties to life sentences for 11 prisoners.

A protester sentenced to death

531 executions since the beginning of 2023