565 executions since the beginning of the year

A death-row convict was hanged on 30 November 2022 at Kashimpur Central Jail-2 in a case filed for the murder of freedom fighter Gias Uddin in Narayanganj.

A condemned convicted was executed in Rajshahi Central jail on 30 November 2022 night, official sources said.

Two persons were sentenced to death by a fast-track court in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district on 29 November 2022 for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl.

Three death-row inmates in Osaka filed a suit against the state on 29 November 2022, seeking an end to the practice of execution by hanging, claiming the method was inhumane under international conventions.

A notice posted in the North Korean capital earlier this year and seen by NK News this week warns that those who spread “rumors” about COVID-19 and Pyongyang’s quarantine policies could face the death penalty.

A Tripura court on 23 November 2022 sentenced a person to death after he was convicted of murdering five persons including his two minor daughters, his brother, another person and a police officer at Ramchandraghat in Khowai district of Agartala a year ago.

A woman who had beaten her fiancé's daughter to death in HCMC last year was sentenced to death on 25 November 2022, while the father received eight years in prison.