2017

ISRAEL: KNESSET TO DEBATE NEW DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS BILL

A bill proposing an amendment to the Penal Law and the Anti-Terrorism Law, allowing the court to sentence to death terrorists who murdered innocent civilians will be added to the Knesset agenda soon by MK Nava Boker (Likud), Israel Hayom reported.

INDONESIA EXECUTED NIGERIAN DESPITE CASE BEING UNRESOLVED, WATCHDOG SAYS

An official watchdog has found that Indonesia executed a Nigerian man last year while his case was unresolved, leading to renewed calls for a halt to a system holding hundreds of prisoners on death row.

YEMEN: MAN CONVICTED OF RAPING AND MURDERING THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL EXECUTED BY MACHINE GUN

A man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl has been executed in public with a machine gun in Yemen.

IRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC IN FRONT OF LARGE CROWD

A prisoner by the name of Hossein Sarooki was hanged in public in the city of Juybar on murder charges.

EGYPT: 8 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2013 PROTESTS

A criminal court in Egypt sentenced to death eight defendants in a case related to the deadly protests of 2013 that followed the military-led ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.

Court sentences 24-year woman to death for murder

28 July 2017: a 24-year old woman has been sentenced to death by a Kumasi High Court, presided over by Justice Charles Adjei Wilson, for the murder of a little boy – the only child of his mother.

USA - Arkansas. A jury sentenced Brad Hunter Smith to death

USA - Arkansas. A jury sentenced Brad Hunter Smith to death

SAUDI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TARGETING SECURITY MEN, CIVILIANS IN QATIF

The Supreme Judicial Council issued an initial death sentence in the case of a Saudi who has targeted security men and civilians in Qatif, east of the kingdom, through shooting them while performing their duties.

TEXAS (USA): TAICHIN PREYOR EXECUTED

Taichin Preyor, 46, Black, was executed.

NETANYAHU WANTS EXECUTION OF PALESTINIAN WHO ALLEGEDLY STABBED 3 ISRAELIS

"The death penalty for terrorists -- it's time to implement it in severe cases,” Netanyahu said in Jerusalem al-Quds.

USA - Texas. Taichin Preyor, 46, Black, was executed.

USA - Texas. Taichin Preyor, 46, Black, was executed.

OHIO (USA): RONALD PHILLIPS EXECUTED

Ronald Phillips, 43, White, was executed. The time of Phillips' death was 10:43 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.

Sarmad Ali Advocate High Court said that according the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, there are about 44 women on death row in Pakistan and one of them is about to be executed who is insane.

Sarmad Ali Advocate High Court said that according the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, there are about 44 women on death row in Pakistan and one of them is about to be executed who is insane.

USA - Ohio. Ronald Phillips, 43, White, was executed.

USA - Ohio. Ronald Phillips, 43, White, was executed.

USA - New studies on american prisons

USA - New studies on american prisons

SOUTH CAROLINA (USA): TAKEN OFF DEATH ROW IN 2014, INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED KENNETH SIMMONS NOW GETS NEW TRIAL

South Carolina prosecutors announced on July 25 that they would not appeal a trial court ruling, granting a new, non-capital trial to former death-row prisoner Simmons.

USA - South Carolina. Taken Off Death Row in 2014, Intellectually Disabled Kenneth Simmons Now Gets New Trial.

USA - South Carolina. Taken Off Death Row in 2014, Intellectually Disabled Kenneth Simmons Now Gets New Trial.

IRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED AT ZANJAN CENRAL PRISON

According to close sources, two prisoners were executed on the morning at Zanjan Central Prison on drug related charges.

BANGLADESH: 2 JMB MEN'S DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED TO LIFE TERM

The High Court commuted the death sentence of two activists of the banned Islamist outfit JMB to life imprisonment in a case filed for their involvement in the 2005 series bomb blasts in Shariatpur.

IRAN: THREE INMATES INCLUDING AFGHAN CITIZEN EXECUTED ON DRUG CHARGES

Three prisoners, including an Afghan citizen, were reportedly hanged at Isfahan Central Prison on drug related charges. According to close sources, the executions were carried out on the morning of July 24.

18 ISIL fighters executed by Haftar's forces in Libya

23 July 2017: a group of 18 suspected fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group have been executed, shot point blank in the back of the head, by the forces of General Khalifa Haftar in Libya.

EGYPT: 28 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER PROSECUTOR'S DEATH

An Egyptian court sentenced 28 people to death in connection with the 2015 assassination of the country's prosecutor-general, according to a local judicial source.

IRAN: THREE PRISONERS EXECUTED

SEVERAL PRISONERS SHOT DEAD IN SOUTHERN SOMALIA

Four detainees were said to be shot dead at a location near the Central Police Station in Beled-Hawa District in Gedo region, according to reports.

BELARUS: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

Belarus' Mahilyow Regional Court sentenced Ihar Hershankow and Syamyon Berazhny to death after they were convicted of six murders linked to a real estate scam.

3 Kenya men sentenced to death for stripping, abusing woman

20 July 2017: a Kenyan court sentenced three men to death for stripping naked and abusing a woman during a wave of attacks by mobs claiming that women were inappropriately dressed.

USA - Louisiana. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence

USA - Louisiana. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence

PAKISTAN: MAN HANGED TO DEATH IN ATTOCK JAIL

A death row convict was executed in Central Jail Attock in the early morning.

NORTH KOREA: FIRING SQUAD CARRIES OUT PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN SCHOOL YARDS, REPORT SAYS

Kim Jong Un's brutal North Korean regime shot so-called "criminals" to death in schoolyards and fish markets in a twisted attempt to create an "atmosphere of fear" throughout the dictatorship, a report from a human rights group revealed.

BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING GAZIPUR TRADER

A Gazipur court sentenced five people to death for killing a trader in Kaliganj upazila of the district in 2008, reports UNB.