A herdsman who hacked his employer to death in Ziwa, Uasin Gishu county, has been sentenced to death by an Eldoret court.

The HCM City People’s Court handed down the death sentence to Nguyễn Hữu Tình, 18, after he admitted to murdering five members of a family in Bình Tân District last February.

India's Supreme Court upheld death sentences for three men over the infamous gang-rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 that sparked national protests and soul-searching.

The Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which handed down a death sentence on three members of the Bakassi Boys vigilante group in 2006.

A man who was accused of raping a nine-year-old girl in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh, was convicted for the heinous crime and awarded capital punishment by a Bhopal court.

Iran said it executed eight people convicted in the 2017 Islamic State group attack on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.

Nineveh Criminal Court has sentenced an ISIS affiliated terrorist to death on accusations of targeting security forces by planting explosive devices in al-Hamdaniya district.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed death sentences of 12 “hardcore terrorists”, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

The Gaza Court of First Instance issued a death sentence against Y. B. from Gaza City after being convicted of murder

A woman was hanged at dawn in the Central Prison of Orumieh along with two other male prisoners. The identity of the executed woman has not been made available, yet.

The former leader of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, was executed alongside six other members of the cult, Japanese media reported.

Nurkoyah Marsan Dasan, an Indonesian female worker from Rengasdengklok, Karawang, West Java Province, awarded death penalty by the Saudi Court for the death of the child of her employer, was released and finally returned to Indonesia.