A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic child abuse.

The criminal court sentenced two men to death after handing down guilty verdicts over the murder of 25-year-old Ahmed Mirza Ibrahim in April 2011.

Florida's Republican governor took 21 more first-degree murder cases away from a Democratic prosecutor who has said she will no longer seek the death penalty.

Darfur Special Criminal Court sentenced two individuals to death by hanging on charges of killing armed robbery in West Darfur state capital, El-Geneina.

A sessions court in Pakistan sentenced a man to death for killing his father.

The Parliamentary Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs has advised the government to review death penalty laws to allow death row prisoners who have been in prison for a long time to have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

Over the course of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to put to death 8 inmates.

The High Court in Bangladesh upheld the trial court verdict that sentenced two people to death over the murder of blogger and Gonojagoron Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider.

A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against controversial Muslim preacher Wagdy Ghonim and two other men after they were convicted of inciting to murder security forces and Christians, Ahram Arabic website reported.

Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge in the USS Cole bombing case, said he would set a 2018 trial date for the death-penalty case.

The death sentences of two prisoners were reportedly carried out at Adel Abad Prison (Lorestan province, western Iran).

In the case of Bobby Moore (Moore v. Texas, 15-797) the Court has struck down Texas' standard for evaluating intellectual disability in death penalty cases, calling the state's approach an "outlier" that, "by design and in operation, ... creates an unacceptable risk that persons with intellectual disability will be executed."