Death row convict Muhammad Idrees was sent to the gallows at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore for killing a man in 1997.
Two were sentenced to death, two others to life in prison and a minor to a 10-year jail term for sabotage.
Masaru Okunishi, a death-row inmate who was seeking a retrial over a 1961 wine poisoning case, died at the Hachioji medical prison in western Tokyo. He was 89.
A triple murder convict named Muhammad Akram was executed in the Sahiwal Central Jail. He had killed his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law over a domestic feud in 2002.
Gov. Jay Nixon commuted the death sentence of Kimber Edwards to life without parole.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals halted 3 executions.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed a petition with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals seeking an indefinite stay of all scheduled executions.
An Egyptian court sentenced 16 jihadists to death in a retrial on charges of killing 25 policemen in the Sinai
Alfredo Prieto was executed today after a series of last-minute appeals failed.
An Iranian man who was on death row for allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad has had his sentence
4 p.m. Gov. Mary Fallin has granted a last-minute stay for Glossip who was set to be executed Wednesday afternoon.
A former Al-Shabaab fighter who has surrendered himself to the Somali government in the beginning of this year was on September 29
