A construction worker who stabbed an Indian couple to death in their bed was handed the death penalty by the Dubai Criminal Court on 20 April 2022.

A Pakistan court on 18 April 2022 sentenced six people to death and nine others to life in prison after convicting them for their roles in last year’s vigilante killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused by workers of committing blasphemy.

The Court of Cassation upheld a Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a 42-year-old man to death after convicting him of murdering his mother in Amman, Jordan Times reported on 17 April 2022.

187th person to be exonerated

Exempting severely mentally ill from capital punishment

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A Dhaka court has sentenced four to death in the murder of Humayun Azad, the first known victim of a series of attacks by suspected militants in Bangladesh.