A prisoner by the name of Hossein Sarooki was hanged in public in the city of Juybar on murder charges.

South Carolina prosecutors announced on July 25 that they would not appeal a trial court ruling, granting a new, non-capital trial to former death-row prisoner Simmons.

An official watchdog has found that Indonesia executed a Nigerian man last year while his case was unresolved, leading to renewed calls for a halt to a system holding hundreds of prisoners on death row.

A man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl has been executed in public with a machine gun in Yemen.

The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) launched today the activities of the training course on "Human Rights and promoting Criminal Justice" in Hurghada city,

"The death penalty for terrorists -- it's time to implement it in severe cases,” Netanyahu said in Jerusalem al-Quds.

A criminal court in Egypt sentenced to death eight defendants in a case related to the deadly protests of 2013 that followed the military-led ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.

The Supreme Judicial Council issued an initial death sentence in the case of a Saudi who has targeted security men and civilians in Qatif, east of the kingdom, through shooting them while performing their duties.

Taichin Preyor, 46, Black, was executed.

According to close sources, two prisoners were executed on the morning at Zanjan Central Prison on drug related charges.

Ronald Phillips, 43, White, was executed. The time of Phillips' death was 10:43 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.

Four detainees were said to be shot dead at a location near the Central Police Station in Beled-Hawa District in Gedo region, according to reports.