Fourteen women and an 18-year-old man are among 315 inmates on death row at Mukobeko Maximum Security Correctional Facility in Kabwe, Ministry of Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Chileshe Mulenga has said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on 10 March 2019 said he wants the constitution amended to allow the death sentence for child rapists.
A criminal court in Dakahlia's Mansoura ordered on 18 March 2019 referring Mahmoud Nazmi, over filicide, to Egypt's Grand Mufti, and said it would issue its verdict on April 17.
A court in Mymensingh on 20 March 2019 sentenced four people to death for killing two siblings in Tarakanda upazila in 2001.
One man was sentenced to hang for a 2006 murder while his co-accused walked free after a Port of Spain jury returned its verdict on 12 February 2019.
The British Office Taipei, which maintains and develops relations between the United Kingdom and Taiwan, called on 18 March 2019 for Taiwan to abolish the death penalty on the basis of human rights.
Fifteen people on 20 March 2019 were sentenced to the gallows for killing a garments businessman in Dohar 10 years ago.
An High Court sitting in Igbosere, Lagos State on 18 March 2019 sentenced one Akeem Lawal to death by hanging over robbery attack.
According to IHR sources, on the morning of 16 March 2019 a prisoner identified as Enayatollah Totazehi, 25, was executed at Zahedan Central Prison for murder charges.
A Vietnamese court has sentenced three local people to death and another to life imprisonment for drug trafficking, according to local media on 19 march 2019
An Iraqi court sentenced a Belgian man to death by hanging on 18 March 2019 for being part of the Islamic State militant group.
According to Iran Human Rights sources, a prisoner was hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on the morning of 12 March 2019. IHR could identify the prisoner as Eslam Farsi,
