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.

An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, the first such incident since jihadist groups overran the region five years ago.

Joshua French and his friend Tjostolv Moland were twice sentenced to death in 2009 and 2010 following convictions for numerous offences, including murder and espionage by a DRC military court in Kinshasa, charges which both prisoners denied.

Another four terrorists tried and convicted by military courts were hanged at a jail in Khyber Pakhtukhwa.

James Dennis, 46, Black, has been released from prison nearly 26 years after his wrongful capital conviction.