Iran hanged a group of nine men including a 70-year-old who had been held in prison for the past fourteen years, allegedly for drug-related offences.

Saudi Arabia executed three more people between 23 and 24 April, bringing to 68 the number of Saudis and foreigners executed in the kingdom this year.

Authorities in Egypt have hanged five people convicted of murder and theft, the interior ministry said.

A drug trafficker was executed in south China’s Guangdong Province following approval by the Supreme People’s Court.

Al-Shabaab said it had executed a man in the south of the country for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

The EU called on the Singaporean authorities to stop all pending executions and to reinstate its earlier

Giovanni Lo Porto, who was an hostage, was killed together with another hostage, an American citizen, and an Al Qaeda leader, an American citizen as well.

Saudi Arabia beheaded two people for murder, one of whom was from India, the interior ministry said.

President Mahamadou Issoufou issued a new clemency measure, to mark the fourth anniversary of his investiture.

two murder convicts were hanged in Sargodha and Sahiwal, raising the total number of executions to 97 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre.

a Saudi citizen, Shayea al-Qahtani, was executed in the Province of Abha. He was the 63rd person

The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial reconvenes Tuesday at the federal courthouse here to decide whether to sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the convicted bomber, to death or to life in prison with no chance of parole.