A Frenchman arrested in Indonesia with nearly 4kg of drugs in his luggage was sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on 20 May 2019 sentenced a men affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK) to death.

A military appeals court in Mogadishu upheld the death sentence against two Al-Shabaab militants, one of whom was involved in the Hotel Sahafi attack, that claimed 32 lives last November.

Three brothers from the "Bidoon" category were sentenced to death for murdering a man in May 2018.

Vietnam has sentenced 10 people to death for smuggling meth, ketamine and ecstasy across the country by train, state media reported on 17 May 2019.

Iran's state-owned newspaper on 18 May 2019 said the country's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for an Iranian man accused of murdering an American woman during a robbery.