Chaos erupted outside Texas' death chamber when the son of a condemned inmate became aggressive, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his final words.

A Florida inmate convicted of raping and killing a college student decades ago screamed and yelled "murderers!" three times, thrashing on a stretcher as he was being put to death.

Texas has carried out the United States’ first execution of 2018, giving the lethal injection to a man who became known as Houston’s Tourniquet Killer because of the way he killed four women and girls.

Arkansas has overcome a flurry of court challenges which derailed three other executions and put to death an inmate for the first time in nearly 12 years.

Jordan has executed 10 men convicted of terrorism, including an attack on tourists which left a British man dead.

The Indonesian government has executed four drug traffickers, giving a reprieve of uncertain duration to 10 others it had said would also be put to death.

Iran’s president has said that Saudi Arabia cannot “cover up” its crime of executing a leading Shi’ite cleric by severing diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic.

Bahrain is severing diplomatic ties with Iran, according to a government minister from the island kingdom.

Saudi Arabia has announced it is severing diplomatic ties with Iran amid mounting tensions over the execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric.

Pakistan hanged four convicted militants who were sentenced to death over a Taliban attack on an army-run school last year that killed more than 150 people, mostly children, officials said.

After several denied appeals the US state of Georgia has executed its only female death row inmate despite appeals by her children and Pope Francis to spare her life.

Pakistan has postponed the execution of the country’s first known paraplegic on death-row, about an hour before he was to be hanged.

The execution of an American man for a murder he says he played no part in, has been dramatically halted.

A man who was convicted of helping to raise funds for the 1993 Mumbai bombings, which killed 257 people, has been hanged.

Australia’s police force has defended its involvement in tracking an international drug smuggling network that culminated in the execution of two Australians by firing squad in Indonesia last week.

The eight prisoners executed in Indonesia refused blindfolds and sang Amazing Grace and Bless The Lord O My Soul, before their singing was silenced by gunfire.