Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on 31 October 2019 upheld a death sentence against a top Islamist leader for war crimes in a move that lawyers said meant he would almost certainly be executed in the coming months.

The Kano State Government has approved death penalty for anyone found guilty of kidnapping across the state.

Sri Lanka' s Supreme Court on 29 October 2019 effectively blocked a plan by the president to bring back hangings for the first time since 1976 before he leaves office next month.

A Lebanese court on 1st November 2019 sentenced an Uber driver to death for the murder of a British embassy worker in Beirut nearly two years ago, the country’s National News Agency reported.

A military court in Mogadishu on 28 October 2019 sentenced two Al-Shabaab members to death in connection with a bomb attack on the late Mahas deputy district commissioner, Rashid Osman Abdi.

A man (not identified) was hanged in public in the city of Khomein (Markazi province) on 31 October 2019, according to IRIB News.

The Justice Council of Lebanon, the highest court in the country, sentenced to death eight people responsible for the double attack on the al Takwa and al Salam mosquesin the Lebanese city of Tripoli in 2013, which resulted in 47 civilians killed and 500 wounded, the NNA agency reported.

A 38-year-old father of two on 30 October 2019 was sentenced to capital punishment by the Colombo High Court, over charges of possession of heroin.

A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on 30 October 2019, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December.

According to Iran Human Rights sources, on the morning of 22 October 2019, two prisoners were hanged at the central prison of Shiraz city, Fars province.

The High Court of Uttarakhand has upheld the death penalty sentence awarded by a lower court to Akhtar Ali who was convicted of raping and murdering a minor at Kathgodam in 2014, the Daily Pioneer reported on 19 October 2019.

More than 250 conservative leaders from across the country have signed on to a statement expressing their opposition to capital punishment as administered across the United States and issued a “call to our fellow conservatives to reexamine the death penalty and demonstrate the leadership needed to end this failed policy.”