Seven prisoners have been hanged in Birjand and Tabriz Prisons in the last days.
A man and woman were stoned to death by Taliban militants in northern Sar-i-Pul province for having immoral contacts.
Kuwait has sentenced seven people to death over the suicide bombing of a Shia mosque in which at least
Two prisoners sentenced to death for drug related charges were executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison on the morning, say unofficial reports.
A court in Egypt ratified death sentences for 12 people convicted of planning attacks on behalf of ISIS.
A group of over 80 girls who were being detained at a deportation center in Saudi Arabia have arrived back in Kenya.
The Cuban government said it plans to pardon 3,522 prisoners over the next 72 hours as a "humanitarian"
An Iraqi convicted of murder became the 132nd person executed in Saudi Arabia this year, the interior ministry said.
A 28-year-old man was sentenced to capital imprisonment in Madhya Pradesh state of central India on the charge of brutally killing a minor boy after sodomizing him.
Four death row prisoners were hanged in the jails of Lahore, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur and Vehari. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed to their families.
Indonesia hasn’t changed its mind on the death penalty – but it did say it’s no longer a priority.
The Taiwan High Court upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of the 2013 murders of his ex-