Based on information from Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources, three prisoners held at Rajai Shahr Prison were executed on the morning of 3 October 2018.

The Supreme Court on 7 October 2018 upheld the death penalty for Saiful Islam rejecting his review plea in Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al-Ali murder case.

A Bayelsa state High Court VII sitting in Yenagoa on 5 October 2018 sentenced Cpl. Vincent Olama to death by hanging for extrajudicial killing.

The special ST/SC court judge Brij Madhuri Sharma on October 4, 2018 pronounced hang till death sentence on four men accused in the sensational triple murder in 2011 in Ajmer

An Iraqi court in Baghdad has sentenced a convict to death over exploding a religious shrine in Nineveh province, an official said on October 3, 2018.

A court of Assam on October 4, 2018 awarded death penalty to a man for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old tribal girl.

The First Court in Chumphon province on September 28, 2018 sentenced Ronnachai Panchart and his girlfriend, Naruemon Chuaysombat, to death after finding them guilty of involvement in killing the man’s fiancee.

The West Jakarta District Court handed down the death penalty on October 2, 2018 to Rizky Albar, 29, and Rocky Siahaan, 37, for their roles in smuggling 1.3 tons of cannabis

An ATC in Karachi sentenced former Tharparkar district and session judge Sikandar Lashari to death on September 29, 2018.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation ruled on October 2, 2018 to accept the appeal filed by defendants in the “Returnees from Libya” case, cancelling their death and imprisonment sentences and ordering a retrial.

The Jaipur high court on September 27, 2018 commuted the death sentence of Prasandeep alias Panna, accused in the murder of a businessman Ghan Shyam Agarwal in Behror, to life term

The District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) East Islamabad Choudhary Mumtaz Hussain has awarded death sentence to an accused involved in a murder case of Police Station Koral, Pakistan Point News reported on September 27, 2018.