One man charged of drug smuggling was hanged in the Iranian Ahvaz city prison of the Khuzestan province, Mehr news agency reported.

Six prisoners were hanged in the Karoun Prison of Ahwaz (southwestern Iran), reported the Iranian state media.

Iraqi authorities executed 17 people, including an Egyptian man and two Iraqi women, most of whom were convicted of terrorism, Iraq's Ministry of Justice said in a statement released.

Saudi Arabia beheaded by the sword two nationals convicted of murdering a Syrian and of armed robbery, the interior ministry said.

Saudi Arabian authorities have beheaded a man convicted of beating and torturing his wife to death.

Saudi authorities executed a Yemeni in Mecca after he was convicted of murdering a fellow countryman, the interior ministry said.

Somalia's government executed a man who was convicted of murdering a journalist, a military official said, the first such execution in a country where those who kill media workers often evade justice.

A thirty-year-old man has been sentenced to death in Zambia for brutally killing his wife

After dodging death 21 times, Hafiz Jaleel Morejo, who is serving a death sentence in a

A Uyghur teacher sentenced to life in prison for “anti-state” activities in China’s troubled Xinjiang

In India, the Supreme court formally granted stay on the execution of Maganlal Barela in Jabalpur central

In Lebanon, the Judicial Council sentenced five people to death – one posthumously