A court in Bangladesh on February 5, 2024 sentenced 10 people to death and another six to life sentences in prison for the gang rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Subarnachar on the day of the 11th national election.

Qatar has released eight former Indian naval officers previously sentenced to death on charges of spying for Israel.

The President of Vietnam Vo Van Thuong on February 6, 2024 signed a decision to commute the death penalty to life in prison for five convicts

The High Court of Kigoma on February 2, 2024 sentenced Kigoma Ujiji municipal resident Peter Mwandelema to be hanged to death after being found guilty of intentionally killing seven people of the same family in 2022.

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Tian Huiyu, a former president of China Merchants Bank, has been sentenced to death, suspended for two years, for accepting bribes, abusing power, trading on the basis of undisclosed information, insider trading and leaking inside information.

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Former French justice minister Robert Badinter, who abolished capital punishment in France in 1981, has died at the age of 95, one of his aides told local media on February 9, 2024.