The High Court in Luweero District sentenced to death a 35-year-old Tanzanian national for murdering a fellow casual labourer at a farm in Wakyato Sub County, Nakaseke District.
A Habiganj court sentenced 11 people to death for killing a farmer at Baghjur village in Baniachang upazila of the district in 2001, reports UNB.
Belarusian courts handed down five death sentences and three life sentences in 2017, Belarusian Supreme Court First Deputy Chairman Valery Kalinkovich said.
A woman - Mahboubeh Mofidi - was executed for murder in the northern city of Noshahr.
William Earl Rayford, 64, Black, was executed.
Two prisoners were executed at Orumiyeh Central Prison while another prisoner was transferred back to the ward due to the leniency shown by the victim’s family.
France said it “will intervene” if its nationals are sentenced to death in Iraq or Syria for belonging to jihadist groups.
Manama’s Cassation Court ruled in favor of upholding Maher al-Khabaz’s death sentence.
The authorities in Kabul hanged the kidnappers and killers of a 12-year-old boy who was murdered in the city in a kidnap for ransom case last year.
According to a study by the Sentencing Project (Still Life: America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences, May 03, 2017), there are 53,290 people serving LWOP sentences as of 2016.
Two Nigerians have been executed in Saudi Arabia over allegation of drug-related offences.
A lorry driver was sent to the gallows by the High Court after being found guilty of counts of trafficking over 45 kg of drugs, 2 years ago.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
