The American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution (Resolution 111) calling for an end to the death penalty for offenders who were 21 or younger at the time of the crime.

Egypt’s high military appeals court upheld death sentences handed to two defendants over the August 2013 murder of two police personnel in North Sinai.

A court in Kuwait has sentenced a Kuwaiti mother and her boyfriend to death after they were found guilty of killing her special-needs daughter to get rid of her.

A Gazipur court has sentenced four people to death in a 2012 case over the murder of an autorickshaw owner in the district.

The additional district and sessions judge, Lakki Marwat awarded death sentence to an accused in the murder case of the brother of a girl who had refused to marry him.

Attempts to overturn the death sentence of a professor in the Iranian courts have failed, according to the man’s lawyer.

A military court in the Somalia capital Mogadishu has sentenced a man to death for his role in the suicide bomb attacks in October 2017.

A Kasur court sentenced a man to death for strangling his wife.

Giza Criminal Court sentenced three defendants to death in their re-trail over killing a person and attempted murder of two others

The Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a minor offender.

A 29-year-old man identified as Abbas Rad was hanged on the morning for theft in Yasouj, capital of Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province.

There are indications that the number of prison inmates awaiting execution across the country has hit 2,277, according to findings by New Telegraph.