According to ISNA and the Deputy of Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s office of Kerman, Mokhtar Shamsuddini, on the morning of October 12, a prisoner was hanged at Kerman Prison.

Rickey Dale Newman, a former death row inmate, was freed after 16 years in custody.

The Indonesian government has managed to successfully secure the release of two Indonesians on death row in Saudi Arabia and repatriated them on October 14.

October 12, 2017: Robert Pruett, 38, White, was executed.

The Karnataka High Court reduced ’Cyanide’ Mohan Kumar’s death penalty to life imprisonment in the rape and murder case of one Anita of Kolimane, Bantwal taluk in 2009.

A Bengali housemaid was sentenced to death by the Grand Criminal Court after being charged with the premeditated murder of an old couple in March.

In a speech to members of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Pope Francis said the topic of the death penalty should have “a more adequate and coherent space” in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Inmates at the Kamiti Maximum Prison called on the Supreme Court to rule on the petition seeking determination of the constitutionality of the death sentence.

The death penalty does little to deter crimes or serve victims, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, calling on all countries which have not forbidden the extreme practice to urgently stop executions.

California regulators for the second time rejected a proposed new method of carrying out the death penalty by lethal injection, another move that slows the process for California to resume executing death row inmates.

A student who robbed a fellow student and his cousin at knife-point has been sentenced to death.

October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty and Hands Off Cain dedicates it to Iran, the country that continues to record the largest number of per capita executions in the world.