The European Union has urged Trinidad and Tobago to abolish the death penalty, saying that the bloc does not believe that capital punishment deters crime.
An Iranian court sentenced eight Daesh members to death over a 2017 attack on the Iranian parliament, a judicial official said.
The African Union's human rights body has called on Mauritania to "review" a draft law that applies the death penalty for blasphemy as global outrage grows over the imprisonment of a young blogger.
Sudan’s President Omer al-Bashir pardoned five members of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) who had been sentenced to death by military courts.
According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Rajai Shahr Prison. The prisoner, charged with murder, was identified as Reza Hamidi.
The number of people tried for terrorism in Tunisia has reached 1,500 detainees, spokesperson for the judicial counter-terrorism division Sofien Sliti said.
The Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab says it has stoned to death a woman accused of marrying 11 men.
A convict was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in a sectarian killing case pertaining to the murder of a prayer leader in Karachi.
A Netrakona court sentenced four people to death for killing a microbus driver in 2013, reports UNB.
The Specialized Criminal Court of First Instance in Sanaa sentenced 17 defendants to death and jailed 87 others for different periods in separate cases.
According to HRANA news agency, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Eslamabad-e-Gharb Prison on murder charges.
Two Islamists were sentenced to be hanged for the murder of a Bangladesh university professor who was hacked to death with a machete two years ago, a prosecutor said.
