The Gujarat high court commuted the death penalty awarded by a lower court to 11 convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case to life imprisonment.

A Turkish court found 42 former soldiers guilty of trying to kill President Tayyip Erdogan during last year’s failed coup, and handed most of them life sentences in the highest profile case related to the attempted putsch so far.

Michael Lambrix, 57, White, was executed.

A Dhaka court sentenced a woman to death for killing her six-year-old stepdaughter in the capital’s Jatrabari area in 2014.

The Nigerian Senate approved death sentence for whoever engages in the act of kidnapping and a 30 years jail term for anybody that colludes with an abductor.

According to a close source, a prisoner, named Moslem Tamrkhani from ward 2 of mental ward, was executed at Urmia Central Prison.

Anambra state governor, Chief Willie Obiano has commuted eight death row inmates to life imprisonment and granted prerogative of mercy to others who are serving various jail terms.

A Jordanian court has sentenced a man to death for killing two people and injuring others in a crime that took place in 2013 in Zarqa, central Jordan.

According to a report by ISNA and the deputy of Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office for Central Kerman Province, a prisoner who was charged with murder was hanged at Kerman prison.

According to IRIB News Agency, on the morning of September 26 the execution of a prisoner who was charged with murder was carried out at Yasuj Central Prison.