Gary Otte, 45, White, was executed. Otte was the 2nd inmate put to death since Ohio ended a 3-year execution hiatus prompted by a lethal injection that raised questions about the drugs being used.

A Russian national convicted of being an ISIS fighter has been sentenced to death by a criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq's High Judicial Council announced.

A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Ardabil Central Prison on murder charges.

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An Egyptian court has sentenced eleven people to death over charges of attempted murder and violence, official news agency MENA reported.

An unidentified prisoner who was sentenced to death on the charge of "raping a married woman" was hanged in public on the morning in Bandar Abbas while a crowd of people watched, according to a report by the state-run news agency, Mehr.

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Two prisoners were hanged in central prison of Tabriz, northwestern Iran.

Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed death sentence for four terrorists.

At least two prisoners were reportedly hanged at Ardabil Central Prison on drug related charges.

The Morocco's King Mohammed VI has granted pardon to 415 convicts found guilty of terrorism, the Ministry of Justice said.

Tahir Merchant and Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan, two of the accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, were awarded the death sentence by a special Terrorist and Disruptive Activity (TADA) Court in Mumbai.