Mohammadreza Shokri, Yousef Zakeri, Hossein Panjeh-Maryam and 2 others were hanged for murder charges at Rajai-Shahr prison on 7 August 2019.

Two people who robbed and consequently kidnapped a neuro surgeon with the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital have been sentenced to death by an Iten court, KNA reported on 29 July 2019.

A notorious criminal and serial killer, Umar Yakubu, has been sentenced to death by a Kano State High Court, The Daily Post reported on 31 July 2019.

A court in Kushtia on 31 July 2019 sentenced five people to death, six others to life imprisonment and six more people to different jail terms in the sensational Nurul Islam murder case.

The Rajasthan assembly passed two bills on 5 August 2019 in which death penalty has been proposed for hate crimes against couples in the name of honour and tradition, and life imprisonment for mob lynching.

The Court of Cassation has upheld a January Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a 24-year-old man to death after convicting him of robbing and murdering a man in Amman in April 2014, The Jordan Times reported on 6 August 2019.

In a telephone conversation with his family, the Iranian-Swedish scientist and disaster medicine expert, Dr. Ahmad Reza Jalali (Djalali) has revealed that he has been under pressure to admit new charges and participate in another "forced confession" in front of cameras.

The men accused of killing Maltese port manager Paul Formosa in Puntland last February were sentenced to death on 29 July 2019 by a military tribunal, Somali media report.

An archery instructor has been found guilty of murdering his female student and dismembering her into 13 pieces and has been sentenced to death.

Mogadishu Military Court on 5 August 2019 executed 2 members of Al-Shabaab terrorist group responsible for separate attacks in Mogadishu which left many dead.

The Supreme Court has sentenced a woman to death over the 2015 murder of her elderly Japanese partner, a member of the prosecution said on 6 August 2019.

Hamid Avesti was executed in the central prison of Kermanshah on 4 August 2019.