The Malaysian government on October 6, 2022 introduced amendments to existing legislation in Parliament to replace the mandatory death penalty for several criminal offences, in a significant step towards bringing the country closer towards complete abolition of capital punishment.

A Jordanian has been sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering his father in Wadi Araba in December 2020, Gulf News reported on 4 October 2022.

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40 Killed in Zahedan’s “Bloody Friday”

The killer of a 22-year-old university student has been sentenced to death, a court in the Egyptian province of Shariqa said on 3 October 2022.