The Criminal Court in Sharqia Governorate chaired by Chancellor Mahmud Al Kahky has upheld decision of the Grand Mufti to sentence to death a housewife and her lover for murdering the husband and an angler wants to bed her.

The sister of Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has been convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to death.

The Damanhour Criminal Court has issued a preliminary death sentence against a man convicted of killing a family of four in Beheira Governorate in 2017.

Rajasthan approved a bill providing for the death penalty to those convicted of raping girls under 12 years of age.

Alva Campbell, the terminally ill prisoner whom Ohio unsuccessfully attempted to execute in November, has died of his illness.

An Egyptian court sentenced 10 people to death after they were convicted of forming a terrorist group and planning attacks on police and security forces, judicial sources said.

Singapore executed a Ghanaian man for drug smuggling, rejecting his plea for clemency.

The leader of an Iranian spiritual movement, whose repeated death sentences drew UN and US condemnation, has been given a five-year jail term after a second retrial, his lawyer said.

A Japanese court sentenced a Peruvian man to hang for killing six people over several days in 2015 near Tokyo.

The Bahrain Court of Appeal confirmed the death sentence of 15 and the prison sentences of nineteen.

An inmate, Ehsan Yaghoubi was hanged in the Central Prison of Ilam, in western Iran.

The young engineer accused of raping and murdering 7-year-old Hasini in Chennai last February was sentenced to death by a Chengalpet Court, Tamil Nadu.