The Nigerian Senate has reportedly reintroduced a bill, that it had previously abandoned, which will impose the death penalty on anybody found guilty of hate speech that incites the death of another person.

The Union Home Ministry on 12 November 2019 commuted the death sentence of Babbar Khalsa terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana who was sentenced to death in 2007 for the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.

Iranian authorities have amputated one hand of a prisoner who was charged with stealing.

Five men belonging to the Islamic State group and Al Shabaab Amniyaad on 7 November 2019 were publicly executed by firing squad by a local military court in Puntland.

A person who was convicted for the possession of 200g 600mg of heroin was sentenced to death on 11 November 2019.

Four persons, including two Pakistani nationals were sentenced to death in the Rampur ‘terror’ attack case by Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Kumar Singh on 2nd November 2019.

The secretary of a religious watchdog office in Iran has admitted that since the establishment of the Islamic Republic 4 decades ago (1979), the authorities have executed 15,000 people for drug-related crimes.

A Karachi court on 9 November 2019 sentenced to death an accused person found guilty of killing an inspector during an armed robbery in 2016.

Ohio Supreme Court on 7 November 2019 threw out the death sentence of Shawn Ford Jr, 25, because of his low IQ.

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on 5 November 2019 commuted death penalty awarded to two young men convicted for robbery and murder of a woman and for injuring her minor son.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena in the final week of his term in office has pardoned a death row prisoner who was convicted of a murder of a Swedish teenager in 2005, local media reported on 9 November 2019.

The Tangalle High Court on 8 November 2019 imposed the death sentence on ‘Julampitiye Amare' over the Katuwana shooting incident in 2012.