An Egyptian criminal court handed death sentences to four people over the 2016 killing of three policemen during a robbery attempt in Nile Delta’s Sharqiya governorate, Ahram Online reported on 7 December 2019.

Tennessee executed Lee Hall in the electric chair on 5 December 2019 night, marking the fourth time the state has used the method since 2018.

Three men, including two Iranians, on 6 December 2019 were sent to the gallows by the High Court in George Town for trafficking methamphetamine into the country four years ago.

The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court’s death sentence and gave a Peruvian man life in prison on 5 December 2019 over the 2015 murder of six people in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture.

The Supreme Court on 2 December 2019 stayed the execution of death penalty awarded to a convict in the 23-year-old case of bomb blast in a bus at Samleti in Dausa district, in which 14 persons were killed.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on 28 November 2019 handed down death penalty on 22 counts to a facilitator involved in Data Darbar suicide blast case.

A Chapainawabganj court has sentenced three members of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) to death and four others to life in prison for killing an operative of the same group in 2012.

Anti-Terrorism Court in Sargodha sentenced to death on twenty counts to custodian of a shrine and three other suspects for killing 20 people and ordered the police to confiscate their properties.

In the morning of 4 December 2019, Somayyeh Shahbazi Jahrouii, 33, was hanged in Ahvaz Prison (Karoon (Karoun) or Sepidar Prison), in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province.

Capital punishment has been chosen as a sentence for a Rapid Support Forces officer by the Criminal Court of El-Geneina, Sudan, Live Report reported on 4 December 2019.

Botswana on 2nd December 2019 hanged a 44-year-old man for murdering his boss, prisons services announced, despite mounting criticism from rights groups and the European Union.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on 2nd December 2019 denied the Department of Justice’s motion to lift the preliminary injunction issued by a federal district court judge on 21 November barring the United States government from carrying out four executions scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020.