An estate worker was sentenced to death by the High Court in Temerloh on 22 October 2019, after being found guilty of killing his colleague over a tasteless food preparation two years ago.

The Federal Court of Appeal on 21 October 2019 upheld the death sentence imposed on an Indonesian man for murdering his two-day-old infant son, and overturned the lower court’s decision to release his girlfriend from the same charge.

The Court of Appeal of Tanzania has confirmed the death sentence imposed on three residents of Ihumwa Village within Dodoma Municipality for killing in November 2011 their fellow villager, in the course of forcefully taking from him some 59 heads of cattle, the Daily News reported on 20 October 2019.

A Dhaka tribunal on 21 October 2019 sentenced 12 people to death for killing a man in Kishoreganj in 2015.

A court in Ho Chi Minh City on 17 October 2019 handed down the death sentence to a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend, chopping her body into small parts, and storing them in a refrigerator in June 2018.

Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital on 15 October 2019 sentenced killer of a staff of telecoms giant MTN, one Ogundele David to death by hanging.

Supreme People's Court (SPC) on 17 October 2019 asked courts at various levels to strictly observe China's policy of strictly controlling and prudently applying the death penalty.

The Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi on 8 October 2019 upheld the death sentences of two Asian men in connection to the rape and murder of a woman in the UAE.

I consider a medal to my value and to the value of the things that I have done and that I will continue to do for the abolition of life imprisonment without parole and solitary confinement, the Italian Government's decision not to confirm me in the second mandate to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

The Court of Appeal in Putrajaya on 16 October 2019 upheld the death sentence of tow truck driver Koong Swee Kwan for murdering Arab-Malaysian Bank (AmBank) founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi.

Uganda will not impose the death penalty for gay sex, a presidential spokesman said on 14 October 2019, after major aid donors said they were monitoring a plan by the African nation to reintroduce a bill colloquially known as “Kill the Gays”.

A court on 23 September 2019 sentenced two people to death, and three others to life term imprisonment, for killing a housewife in 2002.