Zeynab Sekanvand, a juvenile offender who was 17 years old when arrested for the murder of her husband, was executed on October 2, 2018 morning at Urmia prison along with four other prisoners.

An Egyptian court has ordered a retrial of the Muslim Brotherhood's leader Mohamed Badie and other senior figures from the banned group starting on Oct. 7, judicial sources and state news agency MENA said on September 30, 2018.

Concerns are growing over the fate of more than 20 followers of the minority Baha'i faith in Yemen put on trial by the rebel Houthi movement.

A court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi has handed a suspended death sentence to an elderly man convicted of the killing of a local official during the forced demolition of homes in his village, RFA reported on September 29, 2018.

The Supreme Court in Iran accepted the death sentence of Arsalan Khodkam, a political prisoner, Iran Human Rights reported on September 26, 2018.

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have given a two-year suspended death sentence to a prominent Uyghur intellectual for exhibiting “separatist tendencies,” according to an official source, RFA reported on September 28, 2018.

Special courts set up in a drive against financial crime have sentenced three people to death in Iran, state television reported on September 30, 2018

The government offered on September 27, 2018 a three-month amnesty to youths in Northeastern who have joined al Shabaab to surrender.

Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has confirmed death sentences awarded to eleven hardcore terrorists, timesofislamabad.com reported on September 28, 2018.

Troy Clark (51, White) was executed on September 26, 2018.

Daniel Acker, 46, White, was executed on September 27, 2018.

China executed a man on September 27, 2018 for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China's Shaanxi province in April, according to a post on a Chinese court's official social media account.