The Egyptian parliament approved a new draft law raising the punishment of possessing explosives up to execution when used in terrorist attacks, the parliament said in a statement.

According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was hanged at Urmia Central Prison on murder charges.

A Kurdish man was hanged in Central Prison of Ilam, in western Iran.

A man who killed his lover’s husband was sentenced to death in the UAE after being convicted of premeditated murder.

A Kogi High Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced the leader of a six-man gang, Mohammed Audu, to death by hanging for stabbing one Hussein Isa to death over a land dispute.

Taliban militants executed three people allegedly involved in kidnapping cases in Khak-I-Safid district of western Farah province, officials said.

At the morning hours three Kurd inmates were executed at Dizelabad Prison of Kermanshah, western Iran.

A convict was handed down death sentence while three others were awarded life imprisonment in an honour killing case in Nowshera.

In what lawyers for Virginia death-row prisoners have called “a landmark ruling,” a federal judge has issued an injunction barring the Commonwealth from subjecting prisoners who have been sentenced to death to automatic solitary confinement, physical isolation from visitors and other prisoners, and other harsh conditions.

The sessions court in Faisalabad awarded death sentence on two counts to an accused involved in a double murder case in limits Chak Jhumra police station.

A court in Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh) awarded death sentence to a 22-year-old man for raping and killing a four-year-old girl last May.

A court in South Korea meted out the death sentence to a man charged with killing a school friend of his daughter after sexually molesting her, Yonhap news agency reported.