France said it “will intervene” if its nationals are sentenced to death in Iraq or Syria for belonging to jihadist groups.

Manama’s Cassation Court ruled in favor of upholding Maher al-Khabaz’s death sentence.

The authorities in Kabul hanged the kidnappers and killers of a 12-year-old boy who was murdered in the city in a kidnap for ransom case last year.

According to a study by the Sentencing Project (Still Life: America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences, May 03, 2017), there are 53,290 people serving LWOP sentences as of 2016.

Two Nigerians have been executed in Saudi Arabia over allegation of drug-related offences.

A lorry driver was sent to the gallows by the High Court after being found guilty of counts of trafficking over 45 kg of drugs, 2 years ago.

The Military Tribunal issued the death penalty for two men found guilty of involvement in the beheading of two Lebanese soldiers.

A death sentence for Iranian researcher and alleged spy Ahmadreza Djalali has been suspended, the university of eastern Piedmont said.

Egyptian prison authorities have executed an Egyptian man on charges of killing an Egyptian army officer in the Ismailia province in 2013.

A Habiganj court sentenced seven people, including a woman, to death in connection with the killing of a farmer in Nabiganj upazila on 22 June 2008, reports UNB.

A prisoner was hanged at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on the charge of murdering a man during a street fight.

The Criminal Court sentenced two brothers to death after convicting them of the premeditated murder of their pregnant sister and her husband’s other wife at a farm in Balqa Governorate in November 2014.