At least 6 prisoners were executed in the morning at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.

Botswana hanged a man for murdering his girlfriend and her son, the first execution in two years by the only southern African nation not to have abolished the death penalty.

Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a suspension of the death penalty in his country, in a break from the former regime of the dictator Yahya Jammeh.

Three men have been sentenced to death recently in Malaysia for drug trafficking.

A spokesman for South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar was sentenced to death on charges of treason and incitement against the government.

In a rare 2-1 decision, the apex court acquitted a man on death row for drug possession.

Saudi Arabia executed four Pakistani men convicted of raping and murdering a woman and raping her teenage son, the interior ministry said.

The American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution (Resolution 111) calling for an end to the death penalty for offenders who were 21 or younger at the time of the crime.

Egypt’s high military appeals court upheld death sentences handed to two defendants over the August 2013 murder of two police personnel in North Sinai.

A court in Kuwait has sentenced a Kuwaiti mother and her boyfriend to death after they were found guilty of killing her special-needs daughter to get rid of her.

A Gazipur court has sentenced four people to death in a 2012 case over the murder of an autorickshaw owner in the district.