Governors of the thirty- six states of the country under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF), said on 20 November 2019 that no governor has come out to support the death penalty proposed for Hate Speech offenders.

The Chipata High Court has sentenced two men and a woman of the same family from Petauke to death by hanging for the murder of their 84-year-old grandmother on suspicion that she was practising witchcraft, the Times of Zambia reported on 20 November 2019.

An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on 19 November 2019 awarded capital punishment to seven convicts, a woman among them, in a case pertaining to the abduction and murder of a tenth grader, ARY News reported.

At the Siaka Stevens Street High Court in Freetown on 14 November 2019, 18-year-old Osman Kamara was sentenced to death by hanging after the Jury found him guilty of murder.

The Supreme Court on 20 November 2019 upheld the death sentence for Spanish national Artur Segarra Princep, 40, for the premeditated murder of compatriot David Bernat, 41, in 2016.

An anti-terrorism court in Karachi sentenced on 30 October 2019 two men to death after they were found guilty of murdering two people.

The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced to death a Daesh (so called IS) terrorist, who was convicted of committing several crimes, including killing of a security official, Saudi Gazzette reported on 17 November 2019. The Saudi convict can appeal the preliminary verdict issued by the court.

Rodney Reed was granted a stay of execution on 15 November 2029, 5 days before he was scheduled to be put to death for a murder he insists he did not commit.

An Egyptian military court on 17 November 2019 sentenced terrorist Abdel-Raheem al-Mesmary to execution by hanging and convicted 32 others in the Bahariya Oasis attack, which saw 16 security forces killed and 13 injured.

The High Court in Mombasa on 14 November 2019 sentenced to death a police officer who shot and killed three people while he was drunk 16 years ago.

The Court of Cassation on 14 November 2019 upturned the verdict issued by a lower court, which sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen to death for killing his father in their Waha family residence over a family dispute. The court thereby commuted the verdict to life imprisonment.

A former tycoon in China who built a £1 billion empire through sheer violence and terror on 6 November 2019 was sentenced to death with reprieve.