A security guard was sentenced to death by the Shah Alam High Court on 15 October 2018 after he was found guilty of murdering a woman in confinement, three years ago.

The Narcotics Control Bill 2018 was placed in parliament last night, with provision for death sentence or life-term imprisonment for carrying, producing, trading and using more than five grammes of yaba, and more than 25 grammes of heroin and cocaine, The Daily Star reported on 23 October 2018.

A court in Meherpur on 23 October 2018 sentenced three people to death and two others to three years’ imprisonment for killing the driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw in 2016.

According to HRANA, on the morning of 18 October 2018, a prisoner was hanged at Sirjan Central Prison.

The family of 55-year old Palestinian-American asked the U.S. State Department to help him after he was arrested for allegedly helping sell an Arab-owned property in the Old City of Jerusalem to a Jewish organization.

A prisoner was executed at Zahedan Central Prison on rape charges on 20 October 2018 morning.

Five men from the Nyimba district were sentenced to death in Zambia in two separate cases, zambiareports.com reported on October 19, 2018.

Bahrain’s Court of Cassation accepted the verdict in form and turned down the appealed death penalty in substance against defendants Hussain Ali Moussa and Mohammed Ramadan Essa, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on 23 October 2018.

A prisoner was hanged on 22 October 2018 at Ardebil Prison, northwest Iran.

An Iraqi court has sentenced a militant from Anbar province to death over involvement in terrorist charges, a judicial source said on 21 October 2018.

Three Saudi nationals were executed on 22 October 2018 for robbing and killing five Indian nationals in the Eastern Province city of Qatif, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported quoting an Interior Ministry statement.

The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad has sentenced 13 Turkish women to death over affiliation to Islamic State, DPA reported on 21 October 2018.