Two drug traffickers were hanged in Singapore on 7 July 2022, bringing the number of executions this year in the city-state to four despite growing calls to abolish its death penalty.

He was 16

The Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced the murderer of the student Naiyera Ashraf to death on 6 July 2022, after the Mufti approved the Court’s unanimous decision of execution.

South Korea’s death penalty is being taken before the Constitutional Court for the first time in 12 years.

Two members of a three-man robbery gang, who have been using tricycle to rob innocent members of the public in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, were sentenced to death on 30 June 2022.