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A court in India sentences two men to death over a train bombing in 2005 which killed 14 people.
2024-01-3

Two Ugandan soldiers are sentenced to death and three more receive 39-year prison sentences in Somalia for killing seven civilians during a gun battle in Golweyn, Lower Shabelle, three months ago.
2021-11-14

The government of Sierra Leone decides to push for the abolition of capital punishment.
2021-05-12

Gracious David-West, a serial killer who killed 15 women in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, between July and September 2019, is sentenced to death.
2020-10-9

Iran executes Navid Afkari, a wrestler who was convicted of killing a security guard during anti-government protests in 2018. According to media, which quoted the judiciary in Fars, the execution was carried out after insistence from the victim's family. Activists and Afkari's family claim he made a forced confession to the crime.
2020-09-12

The Tunisian Parliament votes 134 to 72 to reject a cabinet proposed by Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli. President Kais Saied has 10 days to select someone else to build a new government.
2020-01-10

A court in Bangladesh sentences Riaz Uddin Fakir to death for war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.
2018-05-10

The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the use of capital punishment by lethal injection involving midazolam.
2015-06-29

Tunisia gets a unity government led by Habib Essid and consisting of ministers from the big-tent secular party Nidaa Tounes, the two liberal parties UPL and Afek Tounes, and the moderate Islamist Ennahda as well as independents; 166 of the 217 legislators in the Assembly of the Representatives of the People approves of it.
2015-02-5

Four policemen are sentenced to death and another is sentenced to life imprisonment for last year's assassination of activist Floribert Chebeya in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2011-06-23