Two members of a drug gang in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on 11 April 2019 were sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering a family of six.

North Korean authorities staged a public trial and shot two female fortune tellers to death last month, forcing tens of thousands of people to watch, in what appeared to be a resumption of public executions.

The Grand Criminal Court sentenced on 7 April 2019 a 43-year-old man to hang after he had killed his wife and shot his young daughter with a gun in October 2016 in Zarqa governorate.

A death convict has been hanged in central jail Mianwali. According to media reports, death convict Abdul Jabbar alias Bhopa had gunned down his relative 15 years ago on petty domestic problem in Ghala Mandi.

A court in Natore on 11 April 2019 sentenced four people to death and another to life term imprisonment in a case over the killing of a BCL activist in Lalpur upazila.

Global executions fell dramatically by almost a third (31%) last year to the lowest figure for at least a decade, Amnesty International said in its annual global review of the death penalty.

A woman suspected of murdering her husband was sentenced to death in Iran based solely on Qasameh, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on 8 April 2019.

A court in Barguna on 9 April 2019 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2010.

A criminal court in Iraq’s Diyala province on 8 April 2019 said it handed a death sentence to a man found guilty of involvement in the killing of three professors at a local university.

The Sharjah Criminal Court sentenced an Asian man with the death penalty for murdering his co-worker, and claiming he suffered from metal illness.

The Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance has ordered eight men accused of murder to pay Dh200,000 as blood money to the victim's family, and sentenced them to 3 years and 6 months' in jail followed by deportation, Khaleejtimes reported on 8 April 2019.

The National Seminar on "Modernization of Penal Legislation in Egypt", which started on 6 April, was held in Cairo this evening and discussed five issues related to modernizing the law system in Egypt.