Pulaski County circuit judge Alice Gray ruled that the state can't use one of its lethal injection drugs in any executions.

A prisoner was hanged at Khorramabad's Parsilon Prison on drug related charges, according to the human rights news agency HRANA.

A hotel manager was sent to the gallows by the Magistrate’s Court in Muar after he found guilty of trafficking 82.38 gm of heroin last year.

A prisoner who reportedly suffered from a mental illness was hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on murder charges.

A Filipino convicted of espionage in Qatar had been spared from the gallows when the death sentence meted to him was commuted to life imprisonment, Philippine Ambassador to Qatar Alan Timbayan stated.

The U.S. Supreme Court let stand the stays for Don Davis and Bruce Ward.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he could hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty, after claiming victory in the vote on a new constitution that gives him greater powers, reported AFP.

Japan’s top court upheld the death sentence given to a 42-year-old woman for killing three men she met through an online dating service in the Tokyo area in 2009.

Arkansas plans to execute a record number of inmates this month but drug firms don't want their products used for the deaths.

A man convicted of murdering six people in a shooting spree was publicly executed in Iran, according to the Tasnim news agency.

Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo indicated that Indonesia would continue to execute convicts when he confirmed that the government would not implement a moratorium on the death penalty despite mounting calls from human rights groups.

The government hanged radical Islamist leader Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan, for his role in kick-starting militancy on Bangladesh’s soil.