Ten drug traffickers were executed in Guangdong province after an appeals court upheld their earlier conviction and pronounced sentence.
Somali military court in Jubbaland has executed three government soldiers who were found guilty of killing civilians.
In Guyana, two women were sentenced to death by Justice Sandil Kissoon in the Berbice High Court.
The Somali military court has sentenced a government soldier to death over the murder of a colleague in Mogadishu.
Three armed robbers who targeted white commercial farmers in Mashonaland Central province, killing four of them, were sentenced to four death sentences each
Bahraini regime officials have handed down death sentences to three Shia clergymen and condemned eight others to life imprisonment
A court in Sagar Madhya Pradesh sentenced a 21-year-old man to death for raping and killing a nine-year-old girl last year.
The presidential office said it will review a moratorium on the nation’s death penalty system if the state human rights watchdog officially makes a request.
The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling by a lower court which handed down the execution sentence to a Tunisian national after he was found guilty of premeditated murder.
Thailand has executed its first prisoner since 2009, the Department of Corrections said
Myanmar’s parliament voted down a proposal to give the death penalty to convicted child rapists
Five prisoners who were sentenced to death on murder charges were hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison.
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran