Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab insurgency shot four men accused of spying in a public execution that underscored the insurgents’ control of swathes of the country’s southern region, even as the government girds up for an offensive against them.

A Gulf national has been given death penalty on charges of beating his 25-year-old Arab wife to death.

A special court in Rajasthan’s Kota sentenced three persons to death for raping a 30-year-old woman and killing her along with her minor son during a robbery in December 2012.

November 1, 2017: Death-row prisoner Emilio Avalos, 40, Hispanic, has died in custody.

A serial killer dubbed Japan’s “black widow” received a death sentence for the murders of her husband and two common-law partners, as well as the attempted murder of an acquaintance, between 2007 and 2013.

The new laws state that individuals defaming and publicly insulting the King and the Crown Prince will be sentenced to 5 to 10 years of imprisonment.

According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Maragheh Prison (Northwestern Iran) on murder charges.

The Iraqi supreme military court sentenced to death by firing squad a former commander of Iraqi Army in Nineveh Province, Iraqi news agencies reported.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Tanzania announced the death sentence on 34 people accused of killing albinos in the country.

According to a report by Khorasan Newspaper, on the morning of November 1, a prisoner was hanged at Mashhad Central Prison (Vakilabad) on murder charges.

A court awarded death sentence to a murder convict for his involvement in a murder case in Sargodha.