Patrick Hannon, 53, White, was executed.

A Binga man who chopped off his wife’s head and hid it in a cardboard box following domestic dispute, was sentenced to death.

A court in Maharashtra awarded the death sentence to three accused involved in the 2014 Loni Mavala gangrape and murder case.

The High Court sitting at Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state, has sentenced two to death for stealing a lady’s handbag, telephone and other personal items at gunpoint.

An appeals court in Mauritania has released a blogger who had been sentenced to death for an online post deemed blasphemous by authorities.

The Urmia department of the Islamic Revolutionary Court issued death sentence for Kurdish political prisoners Diyako Resulzade and Sabîr Şêx Ebdullah on alleged charges of “enmity against God” and “membership to Kurdish parties”.

According to a close source, on the morning four prisoners were executed at Urmia Central Prison (Darya).

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.