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.

Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a suspension of the death penalty in his country, in a break from the former regime of the dictator Yahya Jammeh.

Three men have been sentenced to death recently in Malaysia for drug trafficking.

A spokesman for South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar was sentenced to death on charges of treason and incitement against the government.

In a rare 2-1 decision, the apex court acquitted a man on death row for drug possession.