The Giza Criminal Court on 12 October 2019 sentenced six out of 26 defendants to the death penalty over a 2016 terrorist attack on a hotel in Giza.

Drug trafficker Mohomad Gadaffi of Maligawatta on 11 October 2019 was ordered the death penalty by the Colombo High Courts.

A Faridpur court on 10 October 2019 sentenced seven people to death for killing a truck driver in 2014.

Three prisoners have been hanged recently in Iran in different cases.

President Ram Nath Kovind commuted death sentences to life imprisonment in at least 20 cases over the past nine years, based on the recommendations received from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), The Hindu reported on 4 October 2019.

An individual found guilty over the murder of a married couple in Udugama seven years ago, was sentenced to death on 4 October 2019 by the Galle High Court.

According to reports from Ghour province, on 10 October 2019 two Taliban fighters were hanged by their commanders.

The People’s Court of the northwestern border province of Son La handed death sentences to three defendants and life sentences to two others for trafficking during a trial on 7 October 2019.

For the association Hands Off Cain, after years of working with the Radical Party for the abolition of “ergastolo ostativo” (life imprisonment without parole), the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which finalized the ruling in the case of Marcello Viola against Italy represented by the lawyer Antonella Mascia, is "a historic success and a good omen" in view of the decision that our Constitutional Court will take on October 22nd regarding “ergastolo ostativo,” on which Hands Off Cain was admitted as an intervening party.

Pope Francis has expressed his gratitude to Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar for commuting the death sentences of three Mexican brothers who were convicted for drug trafficking.

A court in Ho Chi Minh City has sentenced eight people to death for drug trafficking, a court official said on 8 October 2019.

After Nearly 6 Years in Jail Because of Unaffordable Bail, Eugene Mitchell was acquitted of Capital Murder.