Six prisoners were executed in two different Iranian prisons early in the morning,

A 60-year-old man and his son were sentenced to death in Uttar Pradesh for murdering two persons over a land dispute.

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced eight alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to death for attacking a police station in 2015, local media reported.

A Somali military court has executed a man who was accused to be involved in a car bomb attack at garden market in Waberi district in Mogadishu.

Mbeya Zone High Court has sentenced four men to death, including an old man,74, after they were convicted of murder.

Singaporean drug trafficker Muhammad Ridzuan Md Ali, 31, was executed at Changi Prison, having exhausted all avenues of appeal.

A Gaza military court sentenced to death three people for their involvement in the assassination of top Hamas official Mazen Fuqaha, blamed on Israel by Hamas.

Somalia's al-Shabab publicly cut off the right hands of two men after a sharia court convicted them of breaking into a shop and stealing about $500, the al-Qaida-linked group said.

A court in Lakshmipur sentenced a man to death for killing his wife five years back, reports BSS.

Twenty three people including a BNP leader have been awarded death penalty for killing four activists of Awami League and its student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League of Araihazar of Narayanganj in 2002.

A Nakuru court sentenced to death 29-year-old man for robbing his neighbour Sh350 while armed with dangerous weapons.

J.W. Ledford Jr., 45, White, was executed.