A youth who had been convicted for trading heroin and possession of 9 grams of heroin was sentenced to death on September 26 by the Colombo High Court.

According to a report by HRANA, on the morning of September 25, 2018 one prisoner was executed at Nashtarud-Tonekabon Prison.

Somalia’s Puntland military court on September 26, 2018 sentenced alleged Al Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab and Islamic State groups’ members to death and life in prison.

The Bengkalis District Court in Riau sentenced two people to death on September 26, 2018 after they were found guilty of violating the Narcotics Law by transporting 10 kilograms of powdered methamphetamine.

Iranian authorities executed a man for drug related charges on September 15, 2018.

The FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2017, released by the U.S. Department of Justice, reports that murder rates stabilized across the United States in 2017, decreasing marginally compared to adjusted homicide figures from 2016 but remaining above the record lows recorded earlier in the decade.

The Pattani Provincial Court on September 19, 2018 sentenced Su-ai-mee Sama-ae and Sama-ae Mamah to death for their role in the 2017 Big C department store bomb attack.

A 40-year-old Singaporean woman on September 20, 2018 was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty after she was caught selling drugs.

Three Egyptian men were sentenced to death on September 24, 2018 by the Criminal Court after being convicted of killing their compatriot in Amman in December 2015.

Two Iraqis were sentenced to death on September 24, 2018 after being convicted earlier of killing 12 civilians in Iraq’s western Anbar province.

Iranian judiciary authorities on September 23, 2018 issued the death penalty to a Kurdish inmate over political activities and alleged membership in a Kurdish party.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on September 24, 2018 upheld death sentences for 20 people convicted of killing 13 policemen during violent unrest after the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.