January 30, 2019: Robert Mitchell Jennings was executed on 30 January 2019.

A Sirajganj court on 22 January 2019 sentenced four people to death for killing a woman over dowry in 2001.

The Kundapur additional sessions court on 19 January 2019 awarded the death penalty for a father who was found guilty in the death of two children by poisoning them at Ganganadu near Byndoor.

According to IHR sources, on the morning of 22 January 2019 a man identified as Rahman Jasemi Zargani was executed at Sepidar (also known as Qods) prison in Ahvaz.

A convicted Malaysian drug trafficker was hanged in Singapore on 25 January 2019, officials said, after the city-state rejected last minute efforts to save him.

The Court of Appeal in Putrajya on 28 January 2019 upheld the death sentence of a Chinese national who was convicted for trafficking in 4,401.5g of methamphetamine at the Senai International Airport in Johor in 2014.

Pakistan's top court has rejected a challenge to the acquittal of a Christian woman on blasphemy charges.

According to Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), on the morning of 24 January 2019 a prisoner was hanged at the prison of Tabas, South Khorasan Province, Iran.

In the months since Meek Mill was released from prison after a lengthy — and as-yet-unfinished — battle with the criminal justice system, the Philadelphia rapper has been an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform, appearing on television and writing a New York Times editorial to address the need for prison reform, especially cash bail and probation, which has kept Meek under the system’s thumb since his teens.

A Plateau high court sitting in Barkin Ladi on 23 January 2019 sentenced a 34-year-old dismissed soldier, Sunday Umaru, to death by hanging, for hacking his lover to death over a message found on her phone.

Saudi Arabia on 27 January 2019 executed four Yemenis found guilty of murdering a security guard, the kingdom's interior ministry said.

A special Lahore court set up to deal with gender-based violence on 18 January 2019 sentenced to death a man for the rape of a female medical student.