Botswana brushed off international calls to scrap the death penalty, saying it is not an abuse of individual human rights.

The killers of Diokpa Felix Boise, the 75- year- old uncle of Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu have been sentenced to death by a Delta State High Court.

A Malaysian and four Indian nationals were sent to the gallows by the Shah Alam High Court for drug trafficking.

The Ernakulam district court sentenced a man to death for murdering a four-year-old girl at Chottanikkara in 2013.

According to a report by HRANA, a prisoner was executed on the morning at Babol prison. The 27-year-old prisoner, identified as Y. S., was sentenced to death on murder charges.

Hicham Mouchtari, accused of killing in March 2017 MP Abdellatif Merdas, has been sentenced to death, reports Media 24.

The Criminal Court sentenced a 24-year-old man to death after convicting him of robbing and murdering a taxi driver in Madaba in June 2012.

A Malaysian court upheld death sentences handed down to nine men from the Philippines in connection with an 2013 incursion into the Malaysian part of Borneo island by Philippine fighters seeking to stake an ancient claim.

A special tribunal in Khulna sentenced nine people including a Union Parishad chairman to death for killing Awami League activist Probhas Roy in Narail last year.

The military court in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced a rebel leader to death.

A court in east China's Jiangxi Province sentenced a man to death for killing a 17-year-old girl and raping her body eight years ago.

Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Qazvin, announced the execution of a man identified only as Saeid in the central penitentiary of the city, according to the state-run Rokna news agency.