The Supreme Court acquitted three convicts after seven years who had been awarded death sentence by the Balochistan High Court in a case related to a Sibi terrorist attack in 2011.

Governor John Kasich (66, White, Republican) has commuted the death sentence imposed on Raymond Tibbetts (60, White) to life without parole, in response to a juror's concerns about the unfairness of the sentencing proceedings in the case.

A special court in Alwar sentenced a 19-year-old to death for raping a seven-month-old child in Rajasthan’s Laxmangarh area.

Activists have welcomed the Vietnamese president's order to review the case of farmers given severe sentences including the death penalty for murder over a land dispute.

A court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld the death sentence handed down to a Vietnamese man for killing three people over a land dispute in the Central Highlands' province of Dak Nong in 2016.

A 24-year-old woman in Kenya has been convicted and sentenced to death for killing her boyfriend.

Two persons received death penalty by the Colombo High Court for an incident of a person was shot dead in Borella.

Robert Van Hook, 58, White, was executed.

A young man was publicly flogged in eastern city of Kashmar, in Razavi Khorasan Province, the state-run Young Journalist Club website reported.

The Church of Ceylon (Anglican Church) said it was against the death penalty

Three individuals were sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court for a murder committed 26 years ago, in Pannipitiya.

Christopher Young Was Executed. Young, 34, Black, was sentenced to death on Feb. 7, 2006.