A man who killed 15 people and injured dozens more when he ploughed a vehicle into a public square before attacking pedestrians with a hammer and a shovel, is to be executed by Chinese authorities.

According to the IHR sources, Younes Azizi was hanged on 10 December 2018 at Urmia Central Prison. He was sentenced to death for drug offenses.

The Supreme Court on 12 December 2018 commuted the death sentence awarded to a man for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in 2007 and directed that he be not released from jail for the "rest of his normal life".

A father of three has been given the death penalty after being convicted of killing a 14-year-old boy in a revenge attack in West New Britain three years ago, The National reported on 11 December 2018.

Alvin Avon Braziel (43, Black) was executed on 11 December 2018.

The Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Lafia on 11 December 2018 sentenced Amina Zubairu, wife of the late monarch to death by hanging for killing her husband, NAN reports.

According to Iranian media outlets reports, an unnamed prisoner was hanged on the rape charges on the morning of 9 December 2018 at Qazvin Central Prison.

A serial rapist who raped nine women in North Hamgyong Province’s Onsong County has been publicly executed by firing squad, local sources have reported.

Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Eje'i announced on 9 December 2018 that the Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence against Hamid Baqeri-Darmani for bribery and fraud which was issued in a lower court.

A prisoner was hanged on the charge of rape at Gorgan Central Prison on 4 December 2018

Two prisoners were hanged on 8 December 2018 at the prisons of Karaj and Bandar Abbas.

Iran on 6 December 2018 executed 12 prisoners in Kerman Central Prison, most of them convicted of drug charges.