Five officers of the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan were sentenced to death by a military court on charges of murder, the defense officials said.

Egypt's top court cancelled the execution verdict of one defendant and the 10-year jail sentences of six others and ordered their retrial over forming a terrorist cell to carry out anti-government activities, official MENA news agency reported.

A court in Gazipur sentenced a man to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a girl in 2015.

According to a close source, a prisoner was hanged on the morning at Ilam Central Prison.

Charles Manson has died. He was 83 years old.

A court in Balkh has sentenced a man accused of murdering of his wife to death.

According to the human rights news agency, HRANA, on the morning a prisoner was hanged in public in Babol (a city in Mazandaran Province).

The Colombo High Court sentenced to death L. Chaminda Jagath, a father of two from Boralesgamuwa for possessing 147 grammes of heroin.

Showing repentance will no longer prevent the death penalty from being applied for blasphemy and apostasy, Mauritania said, as the conservative Muslim nation hardens up its religious laws.

John Allen was sentenced to death in the 2011 death of a 10-year-old girl who was locked in a storage box in sweltering summer heat.

A South Giza criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against a man convicted of killing Coptic Orthodox priest Samaan Shehata in Cairo last October.

The authorities in Jessore Central Jail have executed death sentences of two for murdering freedom fighter Monwar Hossain 23 years ago.