A Somali military court in Mogadishu on 9 December 2019 sentenced ex-soldier to death for murder.

The United States Supreme Court on December 6, 2019 denied an application by the U.S. Department of Justice to lift a federal court injunction blocking the federal government from carrying out four executions scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020.

Iran’s Supreme Court upholds an inferior court’s death sentence for a 39-year-old man for insulting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam in a social media platform.

The Bombay High Court on 2 December 2019 confirmed the death penalty for five upper caste men convicted of the murder of three Dalit men in Sonai village, Ahmednagar, in 2013 because one of them fell in love with a girl from the upper caste family.

A military court in Somalia sentenced a police officer to death on 7 December 2019 for killing a woman in the capital Mogadishu in September.

An Egyptian criminal court handed death sentences to four people over the 2016 killing of three policemen during a robbery attempt in Nile Delta’s Sharqiya governorate, Ahram Online reported on 7 December 2019.

Tennessee executed Lee Hall in the electric chair on 5 December 2019 night, marking the fourth time the state has used the method since 2018.

Three men, including two Iranians, on 6 December 2019 were sent to the gallows by the High Court in George Town for trafficking methamphetamine into the country four years ago.

The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court’s death sentence and gave a Peruvian man life in prison on 5 December 2019 over the 2015 murder of six people in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture.

The Supreme Court on 2 December 2019 stayed the execution of death penalty awarded to a convict in the 23-year-old case of bomb blast in a bus at Samleti in Dausa district, in which 14 persons were killed.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on 28 November 2019 handed down death penalty on 22 counts to a facilitator involved in Data Darbar suicide blast case.

A Chapainawabganj court has sentenced three members of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) to death and four others to life in prison for killing an operative of the same group in 2012.