Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, has been sentenced to death in Iran, according to reports.

Lebanon's top court sentenced to death at least one Syrian nationalist for the 1982 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel.

The Criminal Court has sentenced to death by hanging two Asians who were found guilty of trafficking in drugs, reports Al-Anba daily.

A court awarded death sentence to a murder convict in Dera Ghazi Khan. The judgment was announced by District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Munir ahmed.

Torrey McNabb, 40, Black, was executed.

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti sentenced a man, Aanu Adu, to death by hanging for armed robbery.

The Jakarta Timur Court sentenced Ridwan Sitorus and Erwin Situmorang to face the firing squad. Ridwan and Erwin killed one family in Pulomas, Jakarta, in their robbery attempt.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court after being convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a Syrian child in an Amman neighbourhood in July.

An appellate bench of the Sindh High Court commuted the death penalty of an Al Qaeda militant to life imprisonment.

President of Mongolia Khaltmaa Battulga said he intends to bring back death penalty for child abuse crimes.

As many as 447 convicts are now on death row in Thailand, which is reviewing the use of the death penalty.

According to a close source, on the morning of October 14, a prisoner was executed at Rasht Central Prison.