Japan carried out its first execution in fourteen months, hanging a 58-year-old inmate convicted of a 2009 arson attack on an Osaka gaming venue.

Three US states are scheduled to carry out lethal injections on the same day, marking the first time a triple execution has occurred in the country since 2010.

Lebanon's parliament has voted to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment, making it the first Arab state to formally abolish the death penalty.