An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on 17 January 2022 sentenced a 36-year-old former soldier, Olasoji Damilola and 32-year-old Benson Koiki to death by hanging for armed robbery.

A Chinese court has sentenced 2 people to death for attempting to smuggle 400 kilograms of methamphetamine by sea from Southeast Asia to Taiwan, state media reported on 12 January 2022.

The military court of the Somali Armed Forces on 4 January 2022 sentenced to death a soldier for the murder of two siblings Zakariye and Sowdo.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says his government is doing away with the death penalty and those now on death row will instead serve life sentences without parole, PNG newspaper The National reported on 12 January 2022.