Seven men have been sentenced to death for raping a disabled boy in Kuwait and threatening to leak footage of the horrifying assault on social media.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a statute denominated the "Fair Justice Act," which is designed to shorten the state death-penalty appeals process by requiring direct and post-conviction appeals to proceed simultaneously and provides capital appellants only six months to investigate and present post-conviction claims.

A Vietnamese drug lord who continued to run his smuggling network from prison was sentenced to die alongside four of his lieutenants, an official said.

A Jessore court sentenced a man to death in a case for killing a minor girl after rape in 2014.

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) upheld the death sentence to 35 militants and life imprisonment to two others awarded by the military courts.

Two prisoners have been hanged in Iran in the last days.

A Somali court sentenced five men to death after they were caught with a vehicle laden with explosives, a court official said, a rare successful prosecution in a country where bombings by the Islamist insurgency are increasing.

Saudi Arabia has upheld a death sentence for a disabled man, arrested in 2012 on suspicion of taking part in protests and then tortured until he signed a “false confession,” according to a rights group.

The Iranian authorities reportedly hanged three prisoners on drug related charges in the morning.

"Containing the death penalty in time war on terrorism in Egypt, Somalia and Tunisia."

A two-day seminar (15/16 May) was held in Cairo, Egypt, on the presentation of the project “Containing the death penalty in times of war on terrorism” by the association Hands Off Cain and financed by the EU Commission.