A 29-year-old Guinean college student was sentenced to death by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur after he was found guilty of trafficking in 3,304.6gm of cocaine.
At least nine prisoners have been hanged in Iran on drug charges in the last days.
President Barack Obama commuted the death sentences of Abelardo Arboleda Ortiz, a federal death row prisoner, and Dwight Loving, a military death row prisoner.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Israr Zada in Sargodha awarded death sentence to two accused involved in a dual murder case.
A man in Thakurgaon has been given a death sentence after he was found guilty of murdering his father.
Arman Bahr Asemani was hanged in Kerman Prison along with an older co-defendant, Shams Allah R.
An Akure High Court in Ondo State has sentenced one Mr Femi Aseye to death by hanging for his involvement in armed robbery.
A prisoner was hanged in the village of Bektash near Miandoab (northwestern Iran), reported official Iranian news agencies.
Saudi Arabia carried out its first death sentence of the year, following more than 150 executions in 2016.
Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Monday announced a proposal to abolish the death penalty in Washington state.
The Sabah High Court sentenced a Bruneian man and his Malaysian accomplice to death after they were
Nearly two-thirds of death row prisoners in five Florida counties whose cases were studied by Harvard University's Fair Punishment Project suffer from serious mental impairments.
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
