Billie Wayne Coble, 70, White, was executed on 28 February 2019.

The Supreme Court has commuted the death penalty awarded to a man for murdering a child into life imprisonment after his poems indicated that he realised his mistake and wanted to reform himself, PTI reported on 3 March 2019.

The Colombo High Court judge Shashi Mahendran on 11 February 2019 sentenced a man to death over a murder committed in 2000.

The South Korean bishops’ conference has called for an end to the death penalty, and asked the nation’s Constitutional Court to consider whether capital punishment violates South Korea’s constitution, CAN reported on 14 February 2019.

The First High Criminal Court on 27 February 2019 sentenced two defendants to death after finding them guilty of smuggling 68 kilograms of hashish from Iran through the sea

South Sudan authorities executed at least seven people in February 2019 alone, three of whom were from the same family.

Kafr al-Sheikh Criminal Court on 2 March 2019 sentenced a man who murdered his wife and three sons to the death penalty.

Human rights experts have hailed a sharp drop in executions for drug offences in 2018, even as they expressed worries over a large number of people worldwide still facing the death penalty for non-violent drug crimes.

The Cassation Court in Bahrain upheld the death penalty for two defendants in the case of establishing and funding an illegal terrorist group, the murder of police officers and the attempted murder of others, Gulf News reported on 25 February 2019.

A court on 20 February 2019 awarded death sentence to a person who was found guilty of raping and killing a three-year-old girl in Jharkhand's Gumla district.

A man who spent nearly 33 years awaiting execution on California’s death row took his first steps as a free man on 20 February 2019, following an appeals court decision that overturned the death sentence and raised questions about his mental state during trial.

A military tribunal in Mogadishu has sentenced a government soldier to death for killing a civilian in Mahad district in Middle Shabelle region, south of Somalia, radioshabelle.com reported on 25 February 2019.