An amnesty has been granted to thousands of prisoners serving time for non-violent offences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa exercising executive clemency to release inmates who had served at least one third of their jail term
A Saudi national in the Eastern Province was executed on May 13, 2023 for killing his ex-wife, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Amrollah Adish, Kambiz Davarpanah and four unidentified men
A court in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur has sentenced three men to death for killing a couple living next door in the city in 2021, terming the offence as "rarest of the rare".
The Iranian government tries to demean the opposition
A father in Chongqing who killed his two children by tossing them out of a high-rise apartment window in 2020 along with his girlfriend, who prompted him, were both sentenced to death on May 11, 2023.