More than 250 conservative leaders from across the country have signed on to a statement expressing their opposition to capital punishment as administered across the United States and issued a “call to our fellow conservatives to reexamine the death penalty and demonstrate the leadership needed to end this failed policy.”

A former death row prisoner has spoken out against capital punishment on the 17th World Day against the death penalty, saying it deprives convicts of contrition.

A sessions court in Lahore on 17 October 2019 handed two death penalties, life imprisonment and an Rs700,000 fine to a man for raping and murdering a child.

An Ado Ekiti High Court, has sentenced two men to death by hanging for conspiracy, murder and unlawful possession of human skull, the Pulse reported on 28 October 2019.

Authorities in the central prison of Karaj on 25 October 2019 executed a prisoner for a murder he allegedly committed when he was 16.

The Criminal Court on 27 October 2019 sentenced a 22-year-old man to death after convicting him of robbing and murdering a library owner in Zarqa in January 2017.

The Criminal Court on 24 October 2019 sentenced two Zarqa sisters to death after convicting them of robbing and murdering a 72-year-old man and his Filipina domestic helper at their home in a west Amman suburb in February 2017, a senior judicial source said.

The Cairo Criminal Court on 26 October 2019 unanimously sentenced to death Adel Khalaf, who is involved in the case known as the terrorist "Warraq Cell".

A man was sentenced to death in Belarus for killing a toddler, despite repeated calls by the European Union for the abolition of the capital punishment in the only European country that still carries out the death penalty.

Iran executed seven child offenders last year and two so far this year even though human rights law prohibits the death penalty for anyone under age 18, a UN independent human rights expert said on 23 October 2019.

Serial killer Cyanide Mohan, 56, on 24 October 2019 was awarded death sentence for the murder of an anganwadi assistant from Dakshina Kannada in Bengaluru.

A man who robbed a boda boda rider of his motorbike, mobile phone and Sh250, was sentenced to death on 24 October 2019 by a court in Isiolo.