Six persons were sentenced to death by a court in connection with the suspected honour killing of a 22-year old Dalit man in full public view in nearby Udumalpet in March last year.

Six inmates were hanged on murder charges in Iran, in two different prisons.

The African Union has called on the Egyptian government to repeal the death sentence in 20 new cases.

A 22-year-old man was sentenced to death for trafficking in 749.4 gm of syabu (methamphetamine).

President John Magufuli pardoned some 61 death row inmates.

A criminal court in Egypt's Giza has sentenced 13 members of the terrorist group Ajnad Misr to death after the country's top Muslim legal authority consented to the punishment, following their conviction for attacking security forces.

According to a close source, a prisoner hanged himself to death in ward 1 of Rajai Shahr Prison.

In 2017, no one will be sentenced to death in Harris County, the “Capital of Capital Punishment”, and, for the first time since 1985, no one sentenced to death in the county will be executed.

An Eldoret court sentenced to death a 24-year-old man after he was found guilty of robbery with violence.

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentenced a 20-year-old woman to death for killing her 'estranged' lover by throwing acid on him.

One Al-Shabaab militant was sentenced to death while three others were condemned to serve jail terms after a military court found them guilty of involvement in hotel explosions within the city.

The Khartoum Court of Appeals issued a ruling upholding the death sentence against the university student Asim Omer for the alleged killing a policeman during protests last year.