North Korea reportedly executed army chief Ri Yong-gil for corruption.
Activists are claiming that a militant with the Islamic State has publicly executed his own mother in Raqqa, Syria.
The United Kingdom has denounced a video released by the Islamic State that shows five executions of alleged British spies.
Getting a death sentence in the United States is no longer as common.
The Islamic Group claimed to have executed two captives, a Chinese man and a Norwegian man.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most repressive regimes, is looking to hire as many as eight new executioners to behead and dismember people found guilty of various crimes.
Firing squads are to be used only if the state runs out of lethal drugs, primary means of killing a convict on death row.
In the wake of a brutal Taliban attack on a Pakistani school that left 148 dead, of which 132 were children, the Pakistani government has ended its moratorium on the death penalty.
After the loss of three key leaders in an Israeli airstrike, Hamas rounded up and executed 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with the Israeli military.
It took the state of Arizona nearly two hours to complete the execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood, enough time for his lawyers to file a petition for a stay of execution even though the lethal drugs had already been administered.
