A Japanese court sentenced a 52-year-old man to death on 15 March 2019 for killing three men in western Japan between 2010 and 2011, though two of the three bodies have yet to be located.

The state-run IRNA news agency on 13 March 2019 reported that three men charged with killing two armed agents of the regime, were executed in Birjand Prison, in South Khorasan province.

The High Court in Sibu on 14 March 2019 sentenced a 35-year-old man to death after finding him guilty of committing murder.

Iraqi court sentenced to death the two kidnappers of the ex-Egyptian ambassador Ihab al-Shareef in Baghdad.

A court in Mymensingh on 10 March 2019 sentenced three people to death for killing an auto-rickshaw driver in a bid to snatch away the vehicle in 2011, reports UNB.

The Iranian regime on 10 March 2019 hanged a prisoner in the city of Zahedan, eastern Iran. The prisoner was identified as Ebrahim Karkije, 33, married and father of two.

A serial killer dubbed the “Underwear Robber” for stealing his victims’ clothes and forcing them to walk naked was on 12 March 2019 handed a death as well as a life sentence for killing three people and robbing them of their cellphones and money.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is halting the execution of 737 death row inmates on the nation’s largest death row on 13 March.

Three prisoners, identified as Naji Omarzadeh, Khalil Salehi and Hossein Ebrahimi, were hanged on 11 March 2019 in Urmia Central Prison, west of the country.

Two former employees of a former prominent Nakuru businessman Said Abdalla Azubedi who were sentenced to death for robbing him have been finally freed after spending 17 years in jail, the Daily Nation reported on 12 March 2019.

A 30-year-old baker, Moroofu Shina, has been sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Kabiru Olawoyin of an Oyo State High court, Oyo Judicial Division after being found guilty of armed robbery, the Tribune reported on 7 March 2019.