The immediate past governor of Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, pardoned four inmates on death row and commuted the sentences of two others on death row to 10 years, in one of his last duties in office, punchng.com reported on 29 November 2018.

A prisoner was hanged in public at Iranian city of Taft (Central Iran) on 29 November 2018.

Egypt’s High Military Appeals Court accepted the petition filed by two defendants charged with membership in a cell that planned the assassination of army officers and politicians and committed other acts of violence and sabotage, middleeastmonitor.com reported on 30 November 2018.

A 24-year-old man who stabbed two Saigon vigilantes to death during a robbery attempt was sentenced to death on 29 November 2018.

A prisoner was executed on murder charge at Tabriz Central Prison on 27 November 2018 morning.

The Criminal Court on 27 November 2018 sentenced two to death after convicting them of murdering a security guard to rob a supermarket in Amman in April 2015.

A carwash worker on 28 November 2018 was sentenced to death by the High Court in Johor Baru for distributing 99.16g of methamphetamine two years ago.

A local court in the Iraqi province of Karbala sentenced to death on 29 November 2018 a man convicted of being behind two car bombings in a market six years ago.

A 65-year moratorium on the death penalty will be maintained by the new administration of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the foreign ministry announced on 27 November 2018.

On November 21, 2018, Kentucky marked 10 years since its last execution, becoming the eleventh current death-penalty state that has not carried out an execution in more than a decade.

Belarus has executed in recent days two convicted murderers, the human rights group Vyasna (Spring) said.

The Supreme Court on 27 November 2018 confirmed the death sentence on a Binga man who axed his wife 11 times and chopped off her head before hiding it in a cardboard box following a domestic dispute.