The certainty of apprehension, not the severity of punishment, is more effective as a deterrent.

Two people were executed publicly in Isfahan this morning on charges of killing a police officer.

A 35-year-old inmate identified as Sayad Ahadi was hanged on the morning for murder charges in Ardabil Central Prison.

Four people have been sentenced to death and two others received life term for the 2009 murder of auto-rickshaw driver Md Rana.

Individuals, convicted of terrorism charges, deserve "the strongest penalty allowed by law," including death penalty, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

Six persons were sentenced to death by a court in connection with the suspected honour killing of a 22-year old Dalit man in full public view in nearby Udumalpet in March last year.

Six inmates were hanged on murder charges in Iran, in two different prisons.

The African Union has called on the Egyptian government to repeal the death sentence in 20 new cases.

A 22-year-old man was sentenced to death for trafficking in 749.4 gm of syabu (methamphetamine).

President John Magufuli pardoned some 61 death row inmates.

A criminal court in Egypt's Giza has sentenced 13 members of the terrorist group Ajnad Misr to death after the country's top Muslim legal authority consented to the punishment, following their conviction for attacking security forces.

According to a close source, a prisoner hanged himself to death in ward 1 of Rajai Shahr Prison.