One of several gunmen accused of stealing pickup trucks at gunpoint and killing a hostage was sentenced to death on 12 February 2019 by a southern court.

Juan Corona, California’s most prolific serial killer, dies of natural causes.

A criminal court in Egypt's Red Sea governorate sentenced to death on 7 March 2019 a man convicted of killing a Ukrainian woman in the Red Sea resort of town Hurghada in March 2018.

Tunisia’s Criminal Court on terrorism cases in the capital’s Court of Appeal has sentenced 31 people to death over the 2014 terrorist attack on the house of former Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, Aawsat reported on 7 March 2019.

The Supreme Court on 5 March 2019 acquitted two death-row convicts who were sentenced to the gallows by the Chhattisgarh High Court for allegedly committing robbery and killing five women members of a family in 2012.

The Supreme Court on 5 March 2019 confirmed capital punishment for a man from Punjab, who killed six people by drowning them in a canal.

A Tanzanian court sentenced a teacher to death on 6 March 2019 after a 13-year-old pupil died from a beating meted out by him in a case that sparked a national debate on corporal punishment in schools.

Death-row exoneree Alfred Dewayne Brown was declared “actually innocent” by Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg on March 1, 2019, making Brown eligible for state compensation for the time he spent wrongfully imprisoned on Texas’ death row.

Surendra Koli, who has been convicted and sentenced to death in nine cases of rape and murder of women in Noida’s Nithari village, was on 2 March 2019 handed down capital punishment in the 10th case of rape and murder against him.

The Malaysian Bar on 5 March 2019 called upon the Pakatan Harapan government to keep its promise and abolish the death penalty at the upcoming Parliament sitting.

The Cairo Criminal Court on 3 March 2019 sentenced one man to death and four others to life imprisonment in the case known as “the October Terrorist cell” case.

Ali Shakouri, a resident of the Tarzilloo village in Orumiyeh, was executed at Choobidar prison in Qazvin on 11 February 2019.