An Iraqi court sentenced a police officer to death on 1st December 2019 after convicting him of killing demonstrators, in the first such sentence in two months of deadly civil unrest.

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has ordered the government of Tanzania to remove from its statute books the mandatory death sentence imposed on persons convicted of murder, the Daily News reported on 29 November 2019.

Giza Criminal Court on 30 November 2019 sentenced to death a defendant in the case known in media as "Imbaba Cell," over accusations including targeting Christians and armed forces.

A South Korean court on 27 November 2019 handed down a death sentence to a schizophrenic man who killed five people and injured 17 others in an arson and murder case in the southern part of the country early this year.

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) on 28 November 2019, announced that its human rights award for 2019 goes to the four Iranian lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani, Amirsalar Davoudi, Mohammad Najafi and Nasrin Sotoudeh.

Two al Shabaab members on 24 November 2019 were sentenced to death in Somalia for being members of the terror organization as well as for conspiracy to assassinate leaders of Sufi-sect in Guri-El town.

A 35-year-old man was sentenced to death by Colombo High Court Judge Dhammika Ganepola for hacking to death a youth down Station Road in Ratmalana, News First reported on 28 November 2019.

An Afghan National Army soldier has been awarded death penalty as he was accused of killing a military officer in northern Afghanistan, security officials said on 26 November 2019.

Giza’s Criminal Court, chaired by Justice Ibrahim Abdullah, has decided to sentence a housewife called Hanyat to death for murdering a child girl in Giza, south to Cairo, See News reported on 28 November 2019.

A Lang Son court sentenced 11 people to death on 27 November 2019 for trafficking 561 kg of heroin from Vietnam into China.

A special anti-terrorism tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced seven members of a banned militant group to death on 27 November 2019 for their involvement in an attack on a Dhaka cafe that killed more than 20 people, mostly foreigners.

An Australian woman sentenced to death for drug-trafficking in Malaysia was acquitted on 26 November 2019 after the Federal Court in Kuala Lumpur quashed her earlier conviction by a lower court.