The principal of a religious school in Bangladesh was among 16 people sentenced to death on 24 October 2019 for the murder of a teenage girl who refused to withdraw a complaint of sexual harassment against him, the public prosecutor said.

An Indian national guilty of trafficking heroin on 23 October 2019 was sentenced to death by the Negombo High Court.

For the association Hands Off Cain, for years engaged with the Radical Party, for the abolishment of the life sentence without parole, the decision of the Constitutional Court “opens a breach in the boundary wall of life sentencing without parole.”

The Court of Appeal of Kuching on 22 October 2019 upheld the death sentence on a 30-year-old man for trafficking 855.8 grammes of methamphetamine three years ago.

The hearing of the Constitutional Court called to decide on the compatibility of the life sentence without parole with the constitutional principles in relation to the granting of premium permits in the Cannizzaro and Pavone cases, was concluded.

The Bombay high court (HC) on 17 October 2019 confirmed death penalty for three men from Ahmednagar district who had raped a 16-year-old girl multiple times and tortured her to death in 2014.

A court in Faridpur on 20 October 2019 sentenced four men to death for murdering trader Bikash Saha in Bhanga upazila two years ago.

A Joypurhat tribunal on 22 October 2019 convicted seven people and sentenced them to death for killing a woman after raping in Akkelpur Upazila in 2016.

An estate worker was sentenced to death by the High Court in Temerloh on 22 October 2019, after being found guilty of killing his colleague over a tasteless food preparation two years ago.

The Federal Court of Appeal on 21 October 2019 upheld the death sentence imposed on an Indonesian man for murdering his two-day-old infant son, and overturned the lower court’s decision to release his girlfriend from the same charge.

The Court of Appeal of Tanzania has confirmed the death sentence imposed on three residents of Ihumwa Village within Dodoma Municipality for killing in November 2011 their fellow villager, in the course of forcefully taking from him some 59 heads of cattle, the Daily News reported on 20 October 2019.

A Dhaka tribunal on 21 October 2019 sentenced 12 people to death for killing a man in Kishoreganj in 2015.