A court awarded death sentence to a murder convict for his involvement in a murder case in Sargodha.

Two death row inmates who had an appointment with the gallows have been pardoned by Perak Ruler Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah and will face a life sentence instead.

A death row prisoner was executed on murder charges in the central prison of Orumiyeh.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said he is in favor of resuming executions after more than a decade in response to rising murder rates.

According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), a prisoner was executed at Zahedan Central prison on murder charges.

Two persons found guilty of a murder 35 years ago have been sentenced to death by the Kurunegala High Court.

A Taiwanese man who spent more than a decade on death row walked free after being acquitted of murder in a retrial, boosting calls for the abolition of capital punishment.

A man charged with murder and rape was executed early in the morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison.

A prisoner was hanged on the morning in the Yazd Central Prison.

Guatemala's highest court has abolished the death penalty for civil cases in a landmark ruling announced on October 26.

"The death penalty is dying in the United States, and Republicans are contributing to its demise," concludes a new report, The Right Way, released on October 25 by the advocacy group Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty.

According to a report by the Iranian state-run news agency Rokna, on the morning a prisoner was executed in public at Ghamsal (Keshavarz) Square in the city of Khoy (Northwestern Iran).