In what lawyers for Virginia death-row prisoners have called “a landmark ruling,” a federal judge has issued an injunction barring the Commonwealth from subjecting prisoners who have been sentenced to death to automatic solitary confinement, physical isolation from visitors and other prisoners, and other harsh conditions.

The sessions court in Faisalabad awarded death sentence on two counts to an accused involved in a double murder case in limits Chak Jhumra police station.

A court in Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh) awarded death sentence to a 22-year-old man for raping and killing a four-year-old girl last May.

A court in South Korea meted out the death sentence to a man charged with killing a school friend of his daughter after sexually molesting her, Yonhap news agency reported.

Additional district and sessions judge, Shakeel Ahmad Sipra awarded death sentence to an accused of a murder case.

The Lusaka High Court has sentenced Chilanga UPND Member of Parliament Keith Mukata to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murder.

Iran’s justice minister said a recent reform of its drug laws should lead to fewer executions after the U.N. Secretary General said he remained alarmed about their high number - nearly 500 last year.

The Central Military Court of First Instance in the capital Sanaa sentenced Ali Mohammed Ahmed al-Maghrabi to death for killing three soldiers and injuring 16 others.

A quarry worker was sentenced to death for killing his stepbrother nine years ago. Patrick Muiru killed Joseph over a grudge with his stepmother on April 27, 2009, in Kangoo village, Thika town.

A judge in South Sudan has sentenced South African citizen William John Endley to death by hanging, after he was charged with spying, illegal entry to South Sudan and conspiracy to overthrow President Salva Kiir's government.

A court in Iraq has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death over membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and involvement in acts of terror across the conflict-ridden Arab country.

U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan in New York City today sentenced Al Qaeda operative Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, 47, to life in prison.