Seven militants, including neo-JMB terror group's regional chief, were sentenced to death in Bangladesh for killing a Sufi shrine caretaker in 2015, according to a media report.

An Iranian court sentenced to death a protester for ramming a bus into a group of policemen last month, killing three, before being arrested.

Two rival Somali clans have signed up to a groundbreaking peace deal which aims to end the cycle of revenge killings.

According to IRIB, on the morning two prisoners were hanged in public in Dogonbadan (the capital of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province).

Convicted Singaporean drug trafficker Hishamrudin Mohd was hanged in the Changi Prison Complex after failing on the preceding day - in a final court bid - to reopen his case.

Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indonesian migrant worker for murder despite President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s repeated pleas that the man be granted clemency.

Two prisoners were executed in the states of Alabama and Georgia, leading to 5 executions since the start of the year in the US and to 1,471 prisoners put to death since the US resumed executions in 1977.

According to a report by HRANA, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Khoy Central Prison on rape charges.

The High Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence in the bomb attack case in which policeman Mahmoud Farid was killed, a statement issued by Terror Crime Prosecution said.

A total of 486 cases have come before the military courts since their inception in the year 2015.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has sentenced three war criminals, including Razakar Amir Ahmed, alias Amir Ali, to death in a case filed over crimes against humanity in 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.

A heroin peddler accused of trafficking 14.6 grams of heroin was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.