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.

The Military Tribunal issued the death penalty for two men found guilty of involvement in the beheading of two Lebanese soldiers.

A death sentence for Iranian researcher and alleged spy Ahmadreza Djalali has been suspended, the university of eastern Piedmont said.

Egyptian prison authorities have executed an Egyptian man on charges of killing an Egyptian army officer in the Ismailia province in 2013.