The death sentence has been finalized for a 49-year-old man convicted of the 2015 murder of two junior high school students in western Japan after he withdrew his appeal, a court said on 21 May 2019.

An Ikeja high court on 7 May 2019 sentenced a 36-year-old woman, Stella Gilbert, to death for stabbing her neighbour, Mrs Stella Godwin, to death during a fight at their residence in Ajegunle, Lagos.

Criminal Court on 20 May 2019 passed capital punishment on the two individuals convicted of murdering Abdul Muheeth (Bobby).

A Lagos High Court in Igbosere has sentenced a Cameroonian cook, Leudjou Koyemen Joel, to death for the 20 December 2016 murder of Dayo Adeleke, AltAfrica reported on 21 May 2019.

A Frenchman arrested in Indonesia with nearly 4kg of drugs in his luggage was sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on 19 May 2019 sentenced Abdullah Ghasempour, affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI/MEK) to death.

A military appeals court in Mogadishu upheld the death sentence against two Al-Shabaab militants, one of whom was involved in the Hotel Sahafi attack, that claimed 32 lives last November.

Three brothers from the "Bidoon" category were sentenced to death for murdering a man in May 2018.

Vietnam has sentenced 10 people to death for smuggling meth, ketamine and ecstasy across the country by train, state media reported on 17 May 2019.

Iran's state-owned newspaper on 18 May 2019 said the country's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for an Iranian man accused of murdering an American woman during a robbery.

Singapore’s tough anti-drug laws command overwhelming support across the population, but only about half of younger people feel the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for severe drug offences, a government survey has found.

Michael Brandon Samra, 41, White, was executed in Alabama on 16 May 2019.