The Malaysian government has decided to abolish the death penalty and a proposed Bill is expected to be tabled at the next parliament sitting, local media reported on 10 October 2018.

Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed his view on death penalty stressing that it was an affront to human dignity, africanews reported on 10 October 2018.

Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamists on 9 October 2018 shot five men in a public execution, including a Somali British citizen accused of spying.

Two murderers have been sentenced to death after being convicted of stabbing to death a Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) member, newsdzezimbabwe reported on 9 October 2018.

Khulna jail received on 7 October 2018 the copy of a High Court order that one Obaid Ali be released from death row because the court had found him innocent.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Justice and Security Segakweng Tsiane told the Public Accounts Committee that they decided to use inmates as hangmen after locals failed to respond to an advert that invited them to apply, APA learned on 8 October 2018.

A Houthi court in Sanaa on 9 October 2018 handed down death sentences to two Yemenis on charges including espionage for Saudi Arabia and a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen

The Calcutta High Court has commuted to life the death sentence of seven men guilty of killing three women believing them to be witches, livelaw.in reported on 7 October 2018.

An Egyptian military court has sentenced four jihadists to death over attacks which killed 20 police officers, a judicial source said on 7 October 2018.

The production, smuggling, sale, and use of methamphetamines will be punishable by death in Bangladesh, which has followed the Philippines’ Duterte and launched a brutal war on drugs that has seen more than 200 killed since May.

According to IHR sources, on the morning of 2 October 2018 Hamed Valizadeh was hanged at Qazvin Central Prison (also called Chubin Dar).

A death sentence was finalized on 2 October 2018 for a 35-year-old Chinese man convicted of murdering two people in 2009, after the Supreme Court rejected his request for retraction of the previous dismissal of his appeal.