A man who killed his wife during their divorce cooling-off period was given a death penalty in the first trial by a court in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province on April 25, 2024.

The Kerala High Court has modified the death sentence awarded to Narendra Kumar, a native of Uttar Pradesh and the sole accused in the Parampuzha triple murder case, to life imprisonment without remission for 20 years for the murder offence.

The woman identified only as Sahar, or Shahnaz

An antiterrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on April 24, 2024 sentenced a man, said to be associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, to death for killing four policemen in a targeted attack in a Korangi area in 2015.

The Medan District Court in Indonesia on April 24, 2024 sentenced a prisoner who was behind the distribution of 45 kg crystal methamphetamine to death.

Iraqi authorities have executed at least 11 people convicted of "terrorism" this week, security and health sources said April 24, 2024, with rights group Amnesty International condemning an "alarming lack of transparency".

Shahram Sharghi, Ali Reza Aghaei and Pezhman Azizi