A Comilla district Court convicted three people and awarded death sentence to them for killing a businessman in 2013.

Saudi Arabia executed two convicted drug traffickers bringing the number of prisoners killed in the kingdom to 20 so far this year.

The Kobe District Court sentenced a 42-year-old man to death over the killing of five people in Hyogo Prefecture in 2015, dismissing lawyers' arguments that he was mentally ill.

Ten Punjabi men have escaped the death sentence in the United Arab Emirates after the father of the Pakistani man they had accidentally killed submitted a letter of pardon in court.

The Law Commission has recommended that the death penalty be abolished for all crimes except those related to terrorism, Rajya Sabha was informed.

A 30-year-old migrant worker convicted of murdering his employer and his parents in Kerala’s Kottayam district has been handed the death sentence.

Vietnamese state media say a court has sentenced nine men to death for trafficking more than 1,000 pounds of heroin.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said he supports the death penalty and that his Administration is working towards having it implemented as it moves to deal with those citizens bent on committing murder “with impunity” in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two others in a case filed over the grenade attack on ex-British envoy to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.

An Oyo State High Court sitting at Iyaganku sentenced five people to death in two different cases.

An unidentified prisoner was reportedly executed in public on murder charges.

According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, three prisoners were hanged at Zahedan Central Prison in Iran's Sistan & Baluchestan province on drug related charges.