The High Court of Sierra Leone in Moyamba convicted 2 Armed Robbers for the offences of Conspiracy, Robbery with Aggravation and Wounding with intent.

The Supreme Court overturned death sentence of a petitioner after 28 years on grounds of insufficient evidence.

At least two death row convicts were hanged in various jails of Punjab on early morning, Dunya News reported. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their heirs after the executions.

Ohio cancels execution of Alva Campbell, 69, White, after failing to find vein.

According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison.

An Egyptian military court has referred the files of 14 defendants to the country’s top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, seeking his approval of their execution.

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) sentenced three Baloch Internally Displaced Persons to death alleging that the men were involved in blowing up gas pipelines and belonged to a banned Baloch militant organisation.

Ruben Ramirez Cardenas, 47, a Mexican citizen, was executed, despite an adjudication by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that he was entitled to a new trial because of Texas's violation of U.S. treaty obligations under the Vienna Convention for Consular Notification.

Patrick Hannon, 53, White, was executed.

A Binga man who chopped off his wife’s head and hid it in a cardboard box following domestic dispute, was sentenced to death.

A court in Maharashtra awarded the death sentence to three accused involved in the 2014 Loni Mavala gangrape and murder case.

The High Court sitting at Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state, has sentenced two to death for stealing a lady’s handbag, telephone and other personal items at gunpoint.