A 43-year-old three-wheeler driver was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court on August 21, 2025, after being found guilty of stabbing and killing a person with a sharp weapon following an argument.

Safarali Keyfari, Milad Narouei + Unk.

State’s 10th execution of 2025

One day after her husband’s public execution

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlain has imposed harsh new punishments for disrupting his planned December election – including the death penalty – as the regime seeks to crush dissent ahead of the vote.

A Somali military court on August 2, 2025 sentenced a former officer from the Haram'ad special police unit to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of murdering an unarmed day labourer in a brazen, unprovoked shooting that has reignited public debate over accountability within the country’s security forces.

Hassan Kahrazehi, Abedin Kahrazehi, Milad Narouyi