Iran hanged a man convicted of raping and killing a six-year-old Afghan girl in a case that has shocked the nation, local media reported.
The People’s Court of Hanoi sentenced two people to death and six to life imprisonment for smuggling drugs between the northern mountainous province of Son La and Hanoi.
The Court of First Instance of Khan Younis inflicted death by handing upon the citizen Mahmoud Mohammed Khalifa 55 years old from Rafah city, Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” reported.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Death Penalty Bill passed its first reading in the Knesset, winning a narrow majority of 52 in favor to 49 against.
A suspect found guilty for the possession and distribution of heroin was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.
Egyptian prison authorities executed five inmates who had been sentenced to death, four of them over a bombing that killed military cadets, security officials said.
Diyala Criminal Court issued two death sentences against a terrorist for transferring suicide attackers who blew up themselves in the province.
Indonesia's top court has commuted the death penalty handed down to a former Catholic priest who was accused of killing his lover — a former nun — and her two children more than a decade ago.
A woman was sentenced to death for adultery by the 1st Branch of the Alborz Penal Court in Alborz Province.
The Court of Cassation upheld a Criminal Court ruling sentence a man to death after convicting him of murdering two people in Zarqa in 2012, a senior judicial source said.
