Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital on 15 October 2019 sentenced killer of a staff of telecoms giant MTN, one Ogundele David to death by hanging.

Supreme People's Court (SPC) on 17 October 2019 asked courts at various levels to strictly observe China's policy of strictly controlling and prudently applying the death penalty.

The Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi on 8 October 2019 upheld the death sentences of two Asian men in connection to the rape and murder of a woman in the UAE.

I consider a medal to my value and to the value of the things that I have done and that I will continue to do for the abolition of life imprisonment without parole and solitary confinement, the Italian Government's decision not to confirm me in the second mandate to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

The Court of Appeal in Putrajaya on 16 October 2019 upheld the death sentence of tow truck driver Koong Swee Kwan for murdering Arab-Malaysian Bank (AmBank) founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi.

Uganda will not impose the death penalty for gay sex, a presidential spokesman said on 14 October 2019, after major aid donors said they were monitoring a plan by the African nation to reintroduce a bill colloquially known as “Kill the Gays”.

A court on 23 September 2019 sentenced two people to death, and three others to life term imprisonment, for killing a housewife in 2002.

An anti-terrorism court has convicted two persons for killing a woman and her three daughters in Peshawar city four years ago and sentenced them to death with fine of Rs1.6 million, Dawn reported on 3 October 2019.

A Dhaka court on 9 October 2019 sentenced three men to death for the murder of an Ansar member in Dhaka 17 years ago.

More than eight years after awarding death penalty to a man for killing his wife and four kids including 10-month-old baby in Nanded district in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court has now found fault in its verdict for coming to the conclusion about the severity of the offence to justify the extreme punishment and commuted his sentence to imprisonment for the entire life, The Times of India reported on 2 October 2019.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on 15 October 2019 sentenced five war criminals to death for their crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971, reports UNB.

The Somali militant group, Al-Shabaab, has reportedly executed an 82-year-old man in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle state.