A Pakistani court has sentenced to death a man who allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook, a prosecutor said, in a first such case that involves social media.
A prisoner identified as Homayoun Toolabi was reportedly hanged at Khorramabad Prison on murder charges.
A court awarded death sentence to an accused for his involvement in a murder case in Faisalabad
The Namakkal Additional District Court awarded capital punishment to two persons in connection with a triple murder that took place in 2011.
China handed down a suspended death sentence on a former railways minister for corruption, state media said, a case seen as a test of President Xi Jinping’s resolve to crack down on pervasive graft.
A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death for killing a woman in 2015.
A Kenyan woman was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court after she was found guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine four years ago.
A Thai court sentenced two men to death for murdering another Thai man over his iPhone 7, a court official told dpa.
An Orange County jury voted 12-0 late Friday to recommend 30-year-old Juan Rosario be executed.
Circulating Hollywood movies or South Korean television dramas may be punishable by death in North Korea, although more North Koreans have access to media from the outside world.
The High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Oishee Rahman to life term imprisonment for killing her parents in 2013.
A Nebraska three-judge panel has voted to sentence Nikko Jenkins, 30, Black, to death.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
