The Indian state of West Bengal on September 3, 2024 passed a law, the Aprajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, which introduces the death penalty for rape cases that result in the victim’s death or leave them in a vegetative state.

A military court in Puntland has confirmed the death sentence of 50-year-old Abdisalan Salad Shuaib, who was convicted of spying for the militant group Al-Shabaab, Hiiran On Line reported August 13, 2024.

Saudi Arabia has executed three people in Riyadh convicted of terror-related charges, the Ministry of Interior said on September 8, 2024.

Kuwait on September 5, 2024 carried out the death sentences issued against six individuals who were convicted of murder, in the first hangings in the country in two years.

The Odisha High Court on Wednesday commuted death sentence of one Nabin Dehury to imprisonment for life till his natural death without remission or commutation.

According to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, an Afghan national named Abdul Qayyum Shinwari was executed on August 31, 2024 in the city of Mecca.

A former Chinese Communist Party official, accused of embezzling a staggering USD 421 million - the largest-ever corruption case in China's history, on August 27, 2024 was sentenced to death by a court in Inner Mongolia.

The Egyptian Criminal Court upheld the death sentence on September 3, 2024 against Essam Abdel Majeed, who was convicted of killing Major General Nabil Farag.

The Malawi Ministry of Justice has delayed tabling the bill on the abolition of the death penalty, despite last year’s commitment to present it in parliament this year, Channel Africa reported on August 22, 2024.

North Korea is suspected of executing a number of officials held responsible for devastating floods this year