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

The Jakarta Timur Court sentenced Ridwan Sitorus and Erwin Situmorang to face the firing squad. Ridwan and Erwin killed one family in Pulomas, Jakarta, in their robbery attempt.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court after being convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a Syrian child in an Amman neighbourhood in July.

An appellate bench of the Sindh High Court commuted the death penalty of an Al Qaeda militant to life imprisonment.

President of Mongolia Khaltmaa Battulga said he intends to bring back death penalty for child abuse crimes.

As many as 447 convicts are now on death row in Thailand, which is reviewing the use of the death penalty.

According to a close source, on the morning of October 14, a prisoner was executed at Rasht Central Prison.

An anti-terrorism court in Multan sentenced a woman to death on two counts while also handing her a life imprisonment sentence after finding her guilty of murdering her husband.

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.