The killer of a transgender person was sentenced to death by district and session court in Peshawar on 22 July 2019. The judgment was announced by Judge Saadia Andaleeb in the murder case of Alisha, who was brutally gunned down by Fazal Dayan Alias Fazal Gujar in May 2016.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte urged lawmakers on 22 July 2019 to bring back the death penalty as part of his internationally-condemned crackdown on narcotics in which police have already killed thousands.

Two former police officers in Hai Phong were sentenced to death and 20 years in jail on 22 July 2019 for trading meth stolen from a drug bust.

Iran says it has arrested 17 spies who it says were working for the CIA, and sentenced some of them to death.

A suspect that was convicted of heroin racketeering charges was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court on 18 July 2019.

A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to death for killing a woman who turned down his advances for a love relationship after separating from her husband, Nairobinews reported on 19 July 2019.

A member of the Saudi royal family, who is also the governor of the Saudi region of Asir, has garnered many observers’ praise when he intervened to stop the execution of one convict who was sentenced to death on a charge of murder.

A Kurdish woman named Maliheh Salehian was executed in the central prison of Mahabad on July 16, 2019.

Tanzanian High Court on 18 July 2019 ruled to uphold or keep the death penalty, stating that there is not enough evidence to challenge the death penalty, which means that it will remain in place and operating.

Three men have been sentenced to death in Morocco for the Isis-inspired murder of two Scandinavian hikers in the Atlas mountains last December.

A woman, Zahra Safari Moghaddam, was hanged on 17 July 2019, in the Prison of Noshahr.

On the morning of 8 July 2019 the Intermediate Peoples Court of Luan City, Anhui Province, publicly sentenced Wang Yunli to death for intentional homicide, depriving him of political rights for life; confiscating a single-edged tool; compensating the plaintiff of incidental civil action for economic losses of RMB 3. Thirteen thousand nine hundred sixty-three dollars and fifty-three cents.