Mandalay District Court on 27 June 2019 sentenced a man to death for an armed robbery that resulted in the death of a woman in Chan Mya Tharsi township in Mandalay Region.

According to IHR sources, on the early morning of 30 June 2019 a man was hanged at Tohid Prison in Bandar Abbas.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on 30 June 2019 he and the United National Party (UNP) do not agree to implementing the death penalty ending a 43-year moratorium and many political parties including the opposition are against it.

The death penalty of Soghra Khalil was upheld on 24 June 2019.

Sri Lanka has recruited two hangmen as it prepares to carry out four executions - the first in 43 years.

A high court in Somalia's northeastern regional state on 30 June 2019 upheld the death sentence of three men convicted of raping, mutilating and killing of a teenager early this year.

The European Union on 27 June 2019 criticized Sri Lanka’s move to resume executions, saying it would directly contradict the country’s commitment to maintain a 43-year moratorium on death penalty at the U.N. General Assembly last year.

The Niniveh Criminal Court in northern Iraq has sentenced one person to death for belonging to Daesh and taking part in the kidnapping and murder of Iraqi citizens from the Yazidi religious minority.

Five men were hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison on 26 June 2019.

A Shariatpur tribunal sentenced two men to death for gang-raping a girl at Mahmud Shikdar Kandi village in Zajira upazila in 2015.

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Sri Lanka's president on 26 June 2019 signed death sentences for four people convicted of drug-related offences.