Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for Jamshid Sharmahd, the ringleader of a US-based terrorist group.

Saudi officials execute a Jordanian man in a case criticized by the UN and human rights groups.

A US couple detained in Uganda on charges of aggravated torture of a 10-year-old boy faces an additional charge of aggravated child trafficking which carries the death penalty if they are convicted.

An international human rights organization says executions in Saudi Arabia could hit record high this year as the number skyrocketed to 120 in the first half of the current year.

Turkey is set to reconsider a 2004 decision to abolish capital punishment, justice minister said, after President Tayyip Erdogan raised the death penalty following wildfires earlier this week.

A group of UN human rights experts have called on Saudi authorities to immediately release a young man, who is on death row for crimes he allegedly committed as a minor and whose conviction followed a grossly unfair trial.

A Saudi court gives a new death sentence to a young man for crimes committed when he was a minor.