A few hours after the Trump administration announced it was bringing back federal executions, former vice president and 2020 candidate Joe Biden had a single message: abolish the death penalty.

The Report on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia prepared by Baroness Helena Kennedy on the basis of official documents, direct testimonies and open sources was presented on 29 July 2019 at the House of Commons in London.

An Abeokuta High Court on 26 July 2019 sentenced a truck driver, Monsuni Waidi, to death by hanging for killing a passenger.

Three men were recently hanged in Iran for murder and drug trafficking.

A Uae resident who shot a man dead inside a mosque in Al Ain in 2017 has been sentenced to death, the Khaleej Times reported on 29 July 2019.

Two Shia activists - Ahmad al-Mullali, 24, and Ali Hakim al-Arab, 25 - were executed at Jaw prison, south of the Bahraini capital Manama, on 26 July 2019 after private meetings with their famili

Two Dutchmen were sentenced to death in Morocco for murder, the NOS reported on 27 July 2019. One person was killed in the shooting in Marrakech. Two others were injured.

Two women, Arasteh Ranjbar and Nazdar Vatankhah, were hanged at the Central Prison of Urmia on 23 July 2019.

Justice Z. Jawara Alami of the High Court last week sentenced one Pap Ibrahim Khalilulaye Thiam, a Senegalese national to death for strangling one Fatou Loum, The Standard reported on 25 July 2019.

An Iraqi court has sentenced two men to death after finding them guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a judicial council said.

A woman has been given a suspended death sentence for murdering her lesbian ex-lover by stabbing her nearly 200 times following an argument in a Hunan hotel, DailyMail Online reported on 24 July 2019.

A Malaysian court has rejected a Vietnamese woman’s appeal to set aside her death sentence for drug trafficking, e.vnexpress.net reported on 22 April 2019.