A prisoner convicted of murdering a prominent cleric who had allegedly sexually abused him when he was a minor, was hanged on 1 December 2018 morning at Rasht Central Prison in northern Iran.

Batam District Court handed down the death penalty to four Chinese nationals on 29 November 2018 night for smuggling 1.6 tons of crystal methamphetamine.

A Hamas-run military court has sentenced five Palestinians and an Israeli resident to death for “collaborating” with Israel, the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry announced on 3 December 2018 in a memo on its official website.

Two separate trials sentenced 13 Vietnamese drug dealers to death on 30 November 2018, making them among the toughest in years.

A worker accused of killing his boss for refusing a salary increase has been sentenced to death, khaleejtimes.com reported on 29 November 2018.

Three men were last week condemned to hang by the High Court after being convicted of murder with actual intent, Newsday reported on 26 November 2018.

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.