A court in Jeddah sentenced a housemaid to death for murdering the daughter of her employer and wounding another before trying to kill herself.
The parliament of Chad adopted a reform of its penal code which raises the legal marriage age from 16 to 18 and abrogates the death penalty.
Virginia prison officials have paid a secret compounding pharmacy $66,000 to obtain lethal injection drugs
Egypt's Court of Cassation rejected appeal submitted by militant Adel Habara against his death sentence over involvement in killing 25 soldiers in Rafah in 2013.
As Delaware's Supreme Court weighs whether 12 men sentenced to death should be spared from
Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has issued a decree granting pardons to certain prisoners in commemoration of his accession to the throne.
Ten prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison (Alborz province, northern Iran) on murder charges.
A high court in Indonesia sentenced three Taiwanese citizens to death on drugs charges, reports said.
Ronald Bert Smith, 45, White, was executed.
A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Dizel Abad Prison (Kermanshah province, western Iran) on
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Bajwa confirmed death sentences awarded to another four hardcore terrorists.
William Sallie, 50, White, has been executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison.
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