The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir issued a decree pardoning five convicts from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) who belong to the faction which signed a peace agreement with Khartoum led by Bakheit Abdul-Karim Dabago.

Pakistan hanged at least twelve convicted murderers at seven different jails across the country, the highest number in a single day after the government lifted a six-year-old moratorium on capital punishment.

A man convicted of murder was beheaded in the Saudi capital Riyadh amid a steep rise in the number of executions in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom this year.

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a military court in Somalia’s north eastern state of Puntland executed three alleged Al-Shabaab members in the city of Bossaso, Garowe Online reported.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has granted the clemency request filed by Dwi Trisna Firmansyah, 28, an inmate convicted of premeditated murder, and changed his sentence from death to life imprisonment.

Despite the pressure by the international human right organizations, the Iraqi government continues to execute and hang convicts.

Zimbabwe’s acting President and Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, reiterated he wanted the death penalty “totally” abolished by the Constitution.

The beheading of a gang leader in Saudi Arabia raised the number of executions carried out this year to 44, already more than half the total for 2014.

A Farmer has been sentenced to death by the Wa High Court after he was found guilty of murdering a 43-year old famer at Daffiama in the Upper West region.

Prison authorities in Faisalabad hanged two death row prisoners convicted of murder and rape, bringing to 27 the number of executions in Pakistan since it resumed capital punishment in December.

Manuel Vasquez, 46, Hispanic, was executed in Texas.