An inmate, Ehsan Yaghoubi was hanged in the Central Prison of Ilam, in western Iran.

The young engineer accused of raping and murdering 7-year-old Hasini in Chennai last February was sentenced to death by a Chengalpet Court, Tamil Nadu.

A young man identified as Hamid Imani was executed in the Central Prison of Hamedan, western Iran.

A Minsk-based human rights group says that more than four months ago Belarusian authorities executed a man who had been convicted of killing his own children.

An alleged serial killer sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court on March 7 for torturing and murdering a woman may have claimed at least seven other victims, authorities said.

The Egyptian parliament approved a new draft law raising the punishment of possessing explosives up to execution when used in terrorist attacks, the parliament said in a statement.

According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was hanged at Urmia Central Prison on murder charges.

A Kurdish man was hanged in Central Prison of Ilam, in western Iran.

A man who killed his lover’s husband was sentenced to death in the UAE after being convicted of premeditated murder.

A Kogi High Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced the leader of a six-man gang, Mohammed Audu, to death by hanging for stabbing one Hussein Isa to death over a land dispute.

Taliban militants executed three people allegedly involved in kidnapping cases in Khak-I-Safid district of western Farah province, officials said.

At the morning hours three Kurd inmates were executed at Dizelabad Prison of Kermanshah, western Iran.