Charles Ray Finch Becomes 166th Death-Row Exoneree as North Carolina Prosecutor Formally Drops All Charges.

Sri Lanka's president on 26 June 2019 signed death sentences for four people convicted of drug-related offences.

When Georgia executed Marion Wilson, Jr., on June 20, 2019, it marked the 1500th execution in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all death-penalty statutes in Furman v. Georgia in 1972.

A Kishoreganj court on 19 June 2019 awarded death sentence to three convict and lifetime imprisonment to seven in a murder case.

The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced three Vietnamese to death on 25 June 2019 on drugs charges.

A 82-year-old Vietnamese man has been compensated with VND6.7 billion ($287,500) for being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death.

A Vietnamese court on 19 June 2019 sentenced two local men to death for transporting and trading illicit drug, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Colombo High Court Judge Sampath Wijeratne issued the death penalty for three defendants who were accused of several cases including the murder of an individual with the use of sharp objects

Jamal Haji-Zavareh was executed in an unknown place in Tehran, reported a close source.

The Supreme Court on 21 June 2019 overturned the death sentence awarded to a murder convict by a trial court in 2007, converting the sentence into life imprisonment.

A court in Tanzania on 19 June 2019 sentenced three Muslims to be hanged for decapitating four Christians in 2015 during an outbreak of violence fuelled by religion, a legal source said.

A father of three has been sentenced to death over the possession of heroin, as per the order of the Colombo High Court.