Botswana's High Court on 11 June 2019 overturned a law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations in a landmark victory for Africa's LGBTQ movements.

Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has endorsed the death sentence to a retired army officer and a civilian and rigorous imprisonment to one army officer on charges of "espionage/leakage of sensitive information to foreign agencies prejudice to the national security", a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on 30 May 2019.

The Bombay High Court on 3 June 2019 upheld the Constitutional validity of an amended section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) under which repeat offenders in rape cases can be awarded life imprisonment or death penalty.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on 10 June 2019 commuted a death sentence against a defendant convicted in the case of the storming of the Kerdasa police station in Giza in July 2013, and has upheld life imprisonment terms against three other men in the same case.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on 23 May 2019 sentenced 2 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants to death in an eight-year-old case of a lawyer’s killing in a sectarian attack outside a former judge’s residence.

Malawi’s high court on 7 June 2019 sentenced to death a man who murdered a young albino.

Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on 8 June 2019 a death sentence previously issued by a criminal court against a man over an assassination attempt of a judge and involvement in a terror cell, state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.

Iraq is reportedly demanding money from France in return for commuting death sentences passed on 11 French jihadists to life imprisonment, according to the conservative newspaper Le Figaro.

A call-boy who hit a mini-bus driver with a brick in rage after he refused to give him 1 kwacha loading fee was condemned to death on 4 June 2019 by the Supreme Court.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pledged on 4 June 2019 to release nearly 900 inmates from prisons across Afghanistan.

A High Court sitting at Ughelli on 30 May 2019 sentenced a 40-year old farmer, Alex Obigho to death by hanging for the murder of the personal steward/cook to the traditional ruler of Kiagbodo community.

A Baghdad court on 3 June 2019 sentenced to death two more French nationals for belonging to the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows in Iraq.