A special court in Alwar sentenced a 19-year-old to death for raping a seven-month-old child in Rajasthan’s Laxmangarh area.
Activists have welcomed the Vietnamese president's order to review the case of farmers given severe sentences including the death penalty for murder over a land dispute.
A court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld the death sentence handed down to a Vietnamese man for killing three people over a land dispute in the Central Highlands' province of Dak Nong in 2016.
A 24-year-old woman in Kenya has been convicted and sentenced to death for killing her boyfriend.
Two persons received death penalty by the Colombo High Court for an incident of a person was shot dead in Borella.
Robert Van Hook, 58, White, was executed.
A young man was publicly flogged in eastern city of Kashmar, in Razavi Khorasan Province, the state-run Young Journalist Club website reported.
The Church of Ceylon (Anglican Church) said it was against the death penalty
Three individuals were sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court for a murder committed 26 years ago, in Pannipitiya.
Christopher Young Was Executed. Young, 34, Black, was sentenced to death on Feb. 7, 2006.
A General Court-Martial (GCM) set up by the Nigerian Army has sentenced 13 soldiers to death and life imprisonment for offences ranging from manslaughter, murder, torture to assault and arson.
Saudi Arabia executed seven people convicted of criminal offenses, including five men for the robbery and murder of a Pakistani warehouse guard in the western city of Jiddah.
