Eight men have been sentenced to death in Sharjah on 18 April 2019 for carrying out a string of armed robberies at money exchanges and cash machines in the emirate last year.

An Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo, presided by Justice Joy Unwana has handed down death sentence to seven people, including three policemen for kidnapping, the Nation reported on 16 April 2019.

The Cairo Criminal Court referred two defendants on 16 April 2019 to the Grand Mufti seeking his opinion on a preliminary death sentence for them over their alleged participation in the Helwan Church attack in December 2017.

The Attorney General’s Office said in a statement on 16 April 2019 that two suspects were sentenced to death for killing a journalist in Kandahar.

Two terrorists Waseem Nazir and Rana Abdul Haq were hanged in Sahiwal Security Jail and they were involved in killing of four persons in Sheikhupura during Robbery cases in 2001, urdupoint reported on 16 April 2019.

A man was hanged on 15 April 2019 at Dastgerd Prison in the Iranian city of Isfahan for drug charges.

Two Indian nationals on 28 February 2019 were beheaded by authorities in Saudi Arabia for murdering a fellow Indian, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has confirmed.

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a defendant to death on 15 April 2019 for killing an Italian citizen in the city of Milano in 2013.

A Rajshahi court on 15 April 2019 sentenced three people to death for killing Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam in 2014, reports UNB.

The Iranian regime on 11 April 2019 executed two prisoners in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, south-central Iran.

In a vote death-penalty opponents praised as “historic,” a veto-proof supermajority of the New Hampshire legislature on 11 April 2019 gave final approval to a bill that would repeal the state’s death penalty statute.

The court of cassation on 13 April 2019 sentenced two Iranians to death for killing a ruling family member, another Kuwaiti and an Indonesian woman in an armed robbery in 2016.