A court in Feni on 14 July 2022 sentenced three people to death for raping a daughter in front of her mother at Sonagazi back in 2003.

There are no fewer than 3,145 inmates on death row in custodial centres across Nigeria, PUNCH reported on 10 July 2022.

For “serious crimes against international law” and "murder"

A Gambian court on 13 July 2022 sentenced former intelligence chief Yankuba Badji and four other members of the intelligence service to death for the killing of a political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng during the rule of former strongman Yahya Jammeh.

49-year-old Akinola Ademola has been sentenced to death by hanging for offences of armed robbery and murder, of his elder brother in Ekiti State, Within Nigeria reported on 13 July 2022.

Taliban security forces in eastern Afghanistan have extrajudicially killed dozens of suspected members and supporters of a local affiliate of the Islamic State terrorist group, according to Human Rights Watch.