Eric Scott Branch (47, White) was executed. Branch was Sentenced to death on May 3, 1994 in Escambia County after being convicted of strangling and raping Susan Morris on Jan. 11, 1993.

The state halted Doyle Lee Hamm’s execution because medical staff were having difficulty connecting an intravenous line.

Cairo criminal court headed by Chancellor Shabeb Al-Damarany sentenced 21 defendants to death in the case known publicly by “Damietta terrorist cell”.

A court in Saudi Arabia handed down a death penalty to a Shia anti-regime activist.

Karim Zargar, the former general manager of IRIB's international section, Iran TV's channel one broadcast manager, head of the Faculty of Radio and Television, and owner and managing director of Film Reports magazine (Gozaresh-e-Film), was hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison.

A court in the Iraqi capital sentenced to death a Turkish woman and 11 other foreign widows to life in jail for belonging to the Islamic State.

According to a close source, a prisoner was hanged at Zanjan Central Prison.

A man who killed three persons during a Jirga in Mardan in 2003 was hanged in District Jail Haripur.

Giza Criminal Court sentenced 4 defendants to death in the case known publicly by “Awsim cell”.

A Somali military court passed a death sentence to a Navy soldier Abdinasir Hosh Mohamed for the killing of Deputy Commander Said Ali Dhere, Radio Dalsan reports.

At least 6 prisoners were executed in the morning at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.

Botswana hanged a man for murdering his girlfriend and her son, the first execution in two years by the only southern African nation not to have abolished the death penalty.