A woman was hanged at dawn in the Central Prison of Orumieh along with two other male prisoners. The identity of the executed woman has not been made available, yet.

The former leader of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, was executed alongside six other members of the cult, Japanese media reported.

Nurkoyah Marsan Dasan, an Indonesian female worker from Rengasdengklok, Karawang, West Java Province, awarded death penalty by the Saudi Court for the death of the child of her employer, was released and finally returned to Indonesia.

Al-Shabaab militant group has shot dead an elder, who took part in 2016 elections as a delegate.

According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Tabriz Central Prison.

An Omani woman and her accomplice have been sentenced to death for murdering her husband, according to the Public Prosecution.

Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the Tehran prosecutor general, announced that 1,700 sentences of narcotic-related cases have been commuted from capital punishment and life sentence to less severe forms of punishment.

In Pakistan, a 19-year-old woman was sentenced to death after she accused her brother of raping her, threatening with a gun.

The Punjab cabinet decided to recommend to the Centre death penalty for drug smugglers.

Iraq executed a dozen death row jihadists on the order of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, his office said

The Dhi Qar Criminal Court in southern Iraq has sentenced two Daesh militants to death for involvement in terrorist attacks.

According to a close source, on the morning two prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj.