An Ilorin High Court sentenced three persons to death by hanging for armed robbery and attempt to murder Prof. Abdullahi Onimisi of University of Ilorin.

A court in Gazipur awarded death sentences to three men and life in prison to a woman for abducting and murdering a university student.

The 2016 volume of Attorney General Mike DeWine's "Capital Crimes Annual Report," released on Friday, said there have been 328 death sentences handed down in Ohio since 1981. Less than 20 % of those people have been put to death.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers hanged three men they accused of collaborating with Israel following calls for revenge for the killing of one of their commanders last month, an AFP journalist reported.

A lawyer for a man facing extradition to China on murder charges told New Zealand’s High Court that the government in Wellington could not rely on assurances from China that the man would not be tortured or receive the death penalty.

A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic child abuse.

The criminal court sentenced two men to death after handing down guilty verdicts over the murder of 25-year-old Ahmed Mirza Ibrahim in April 2011.

Florida's Republican governor took 21 more first-degree murder cases away from a Democratic prosecutor who has said she will no longer seek the death penalty.

Darfur Special Criminal Court sentenced two individuals to death by hanging on charges of killing armed robbery in West Darfur state capital, El-Geneina.

A sessions court in Pakistan sentenced a man to death for killing his father.

The Parliamentary Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs has advised the government to review death penalty laws to allow death row prisoners who have been in prison for a long time to have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

Over the course of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to put to death 8 inmates.