Two death row inmates who had an appointment with the gallows have been pardoned by Perak Ruler Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah and will face a life sentence instead.

A death row prisoner was executed on murder charges in the central prison of Orumiyeh.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said he is in favor of resuming executions after more than a decade in response to rising murder rates.

According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), a prisoner was executed at Zahedan Central prison on murder charges.

Two persons found guilty of a murder 35 years ago have been sentenced to death by the Kurunegala High Court.

A Taiwanese man who spent more than a decade on death row walked free after being acquitted of murder in a retrial, boosting calls for the abolition of capital punishment.

A man charged with murder and rape was executed early in the morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison.

A prisoner was hanged on the morning in the Yazd Central Prison.

Guatemala's highest court has abolished the death penalty for civil cases in a landmark ruling announced on October 26.

"The death penalty is dying in the United States, and Republicans are contributing to its demise," concludes a new report, The Right Way, released on October 25 by the advocacy group Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty.

According to a report by the Iranian state-run news agency Rokna, on the morning a prisoner was executed in public at Ghamsal (Keshavarz) Square in the city of Khoy (Northwestern Iran).

The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide is pleased to accept applications for its second Makwanyane Institute, an intensive training workshop for capital defenders, that will take place in the USA from June 18 to 28, 2018.