The Court of Cassation on 14 November 2019 upturned the verdict issued by a lower court, which sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen to death for killing his father in their Waha family residence over a family dispute. The court thereby commuted the verdict to life imprisonment.

A former tycoon in China who built a £1 billion empire through sheer violence and terror on 6 November 2019 was sentenced to death with reprieve.

Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, Black, was pronounced dead in Georgia at 10:59 p.m. on 13 November 2019 after an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson, authorities said in an emailed statement.

A military court in Mogadishu on 14 November 2019 sentenced two Al-Shabaab operatives to death and two others to life imprisonment for the murder of three soldiers and one civilian.

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on 13 November 2019 sentenced to death three men who kidnapped a Lagos monarch and killed his palace guard.

Five members of a transnational drug trafficking ring, including the 41-year-old Lao ringleader and four Vietnamese accomplices, were sentenced to death for smuggling 148 cakes of heroin, Vietnam News Agency reported on 14 November 2019.

The Nigerian Senate has reportedly reintroduced a bill, that it had previously abandoned, which will impose the death penalty on anybody found guilty of hate speech that incites the death of another person.

The Union Home Ministry on 12 November 2019 commuted the death sentence of Babbar Khalsa terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana who was sentenced to death in 2007 for the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.

Iranian authorities have amputated one hand of a prisoner who was charged with stealing.

Five men belonging to the Islamic State group and Al Shabaab Amniyaad on 7 November 2019 were publicly executed by firing squad by a local military court in Puntland.

A person who was convicted for the possession of 200g 600mg of heroin was sentenced to death on 11 November 2019.

Four persons, including two Pakistani nationals were sentenced to death in the Rampur ‘terror’ attack case by Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Kumar Singh on 2nd November 2019.