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Pakistan executes serial paedophile, killer of 8 children

Mohamed Imran Ali, Pakistani serial paedophile and killer of eight children was executed in Pakistan…

Saudi Arabia executes 5 people for killing Pakistani national

Saudi authorities on Tuesday executed five people convicted of murdering a Pakistani national in the…

Sri Lanka to hire hangmen to execute drug traffickers

Sri Lanka said on Friday it plans to hire two hangmen, two days after President…

Somalia’s al Shabaab executes 4 men accused of spying

Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab insurgency shot four men accused of spying on Monday in a…

Another Yemeni executed for child rape

A man was convicted for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl and was executed in…

Indonesia ombudsman finds rights violations in execution of Nigerian

The office of Indonesia’s ombudsman has unearthed evidence of rights violations in the execution of…

Japan executes 2 amid calls to abolish death penalty

Japan on Thursday executed two death-row inmates in Osaka and Hiroshima, as the first death sentences…

7 Al-Shabaab militants executed in Somalia’s Puntland

Authorities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Friday executed seven people it said were Islamist…

180 convicts awaiting execution in Warri prison

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba The Chief Judge of the State, Honourable Justice Marshal Umukoro, has expressed worry…

Pakistan executes 4 Taliban members

Pakistan on Wednesday executed four terrorists involved in killing civilians and attacking the army and…