An Egyptian court sentenced 22 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death for an attack on a police station in which one officer was killed.

A man has been sentenced to death in east China's Shandong province for setting a fatal fire in a dispute over land rights in March 2014.

four more death row prisoners were executed in Rawalpindi and Mianwali. All convicts had been awarded the death sentence in non-terror related cases.

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the Rechytsa District Court sentenced Siarhei Ivanou, 21, to death on charges of murdering and raping a 19-year-old girl on 29 August 2013.

At least five men, including three Afghani citizens, were hanged between March 14 and 15 in two Iranian prisons, said the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

nine more murder convicts were hanged in six prisons of Pakistan, a day after 12 convicts were sent to gallows, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.

Cecil Clayton, 74, White, was executed by lethal injection beginning at 9:13 p.m. at a prison in Bonne Terre. He was pronounced dead at 9:21 p.m.

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani and two Saudis, bringing to 48 the number of death sentences carried out this year. That is more than half of the 87 people executed during all of 2014.

The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir issued a decree pardoning five convicts from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) who belong to the faction which signed a peace agreement with Khartoum led by Bakheit Abdul-Karim Dabago.

Pakistan hanged at least twelve convicted murderers at seven different jails across the country, the highest number in a single day after the government lifted a six-year-old moratorium on capital punishment.

A man convicted of murder was beheaded in the Saudi capital Riyadh amid a steep rise in the number of executions in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom this year.