A Thai man who raped and murdered a German backpacker was sentenced to death on 10 July 2019.

The Supreme Court on 11 July 2019 upheld a 2016 ruling by the Hiroshima High Court denying an appeal by a 69-year-old man sentenced to death for the murders of five people in the mountain hamlet of Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in July 2013.

The number of people on death row or facing capital resentencing in the United States has continued its 19-year decline, according to a new death-row census by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF).

A court has upheld a death sentence imposed on seven men who murdered two fishermen on Lake Victoria.

A court in northeast China's Liaoning Province on 9 July 2019 sentenced a man to death for killing six children and injuring 20 people after driving into a group of children crossing a road.

The First Instance Court on 9 July 2019 issued a death sentence by hanging against J. M. (69), from Jabalia after convicting him with the murder of (A. A.) on 15 February 2018.

Somalia’s Puntland State military court on 17 February 2019 sentenced four young men to death while three others were handed fines after they were convicted of murder, Garowe Online reports.

Sweden's Supreme Court said on 9 July 2019 it was refusing the extradition of a Chinese man accused of economic crimes because the man risks persecution and the death penalty in China.

Somali government on 10 July 2019 executed three men in Mogadishu for involvement in the deadly siege at a hotel that killed at least 18 people and injured 48 in October 2017, Garowe Online reports.

Al-Shabab on 4 July 2019 shot and killed five men in Salagle town in southern Somalia.

A man who allegedly married the daughters of his wife before getting divorce was executed on 27 June 2019 by Al-shabab group in Somalia’s Lower Shabelleh Region.

A court run by Yemen's Huthi rebels on 9 July 2019 sentenced 30 academics, trade unionists and preachers to death for allegedly spying for the Saudi-led coalition, a judicial source said.