A Libyan court on May 29, 2023 sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison for their role in a deadly ISIL (ISIS) campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015.

Saudi Arabia has put to death two Bahrainis accused of plotting “terrorist” operations, the Saudi Ministry of Interior said on May 29, 2023, raising the number of similar executions to nine this month.

Despite Third Postponement

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on May 29, 2023 signed one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, defying condemnations from Western governments, businesses and human rights activists.

320 executions this year,more than 2 a day

Mrs. Madina Sabzevan, Mohammad Shibak, Abdullah Zarouzhi

A court in Laxmipur on May 29, 2023 sentenced eight people to death by hanging for killing Chhatra League leader Mehedi Hasan Jashim by firing in 2013.

Monireh Nourikia is the 212nd woman executed in Iran since 2007

After 16 years on death row