At least three death convicts who were involved in the killing of three members of same family.

Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia, the government said, the highest number of executions in a single day this year.

Two prisoners were hanged in public on rape charges.

India's new anti-hijacking law that entails capital punishment for the perpetrators in case of death of any person, has come into force.

Police nationwide shot and killed 492 people in the first six months of this year, a number nearly identical to the count for the same period in each of the prior two years.

Four prisoners were reportedly hanged on the morning at Urmia's central prison on drug related charges.

Eight prisoners were reportedly hanged on the morning at Rajai Shahr Prison.

A man convicted for rape and murder of a minor boy was hanged in the central jail in Gujranwala.

William Morva, 35, White, was executed. Morva was pronounced dead at 9:15 p.m., according to Lisa Kinney, a spokeswoman for the state corrections department.

Anti-Death Penalty Network (ADPAN) welcomes the new Criminal Code, which abolishes the death penalty for all crimes, entry into force on 1 July 2017 in Mongolia after it was adopted by the State Ikh Khural of Mongolia on 3 December 2015.

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti sentenced a man, Aanu Adu, to death for armed robbery.

Two men and one woman were reportedly hanged at Rasht's central prison on drug related charges.