Criminal law barrister at Doughty Street Chambers Timothy Moloney QC and UK-based non-governmental organisation ‘Reprieve’ Director Maya Foa met Federal Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Dr Muhammad Farogh Naseem on 19 April 2019 and presented a report on death penalty cases overturned by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Zhang Koukou, who killed three neighbors in revenge for his mother's death, was executed on 17 July 2019 after his death penalty was approved by China's top court.

In a speedy judgment, a Bophal district court on 11 July 2019 awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old man for raping and killing a nine-year-old girl last month.

The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC) on 11 July 2019 moved the state’s 38 death-row prisoners from Kirkland Correctional Institution to the nearby Broad River Correctional Institution, into a facility that had originally been built to house death-row prisoners in 1988.

Himan Bonavand, Jafar Mohammadi, Mohammad Aref Najafian, and Mahmoud Khaledi were executed at Urmia Prison on 15 July 2019.

Veis Alipour was hanged at Mahabad Prison (in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province) on 9 July 2019.

UK Minister of State for Europe and the Americas Alan Duncan has reaffirmed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would not be extradited to “anywhere where he could face capital punishment”, the independent Spanish news agency EFE reports.

The Sindh High Court on 13 May 2019 commuted the death sentences handed to Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur in the Shahzeb Khan murder case into life imprisonment as it announced its verdict on their appeals against conviction in the case.

A seventh defendant in the murder almost exactly two years ago of a family of eight in southern Krabi province was sentenced to death on 9 July 2019, while the same sentence was upheld for the mastermind behind the crime and for five accomplices.

According to Iran Human Rights sources, on the morning of 8 July 2019 a man was hanged at Zanjan prison.

The organs of death row prisoners in Iran could be pre-sold to buyers under a new law that is heavily condemned by Iran’s Association of Surgeons.

The Government on 12 July 2019 fast tracked its move to have the death penalty abolished in the country by having a private members bill published in the Gazette hours after a motion to this effect was tabled in the House.