A Saudi national was executed in Madinah on 2 January 2019 for stabbing a man to death, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

A man convicted of killing 11 women was executed on 3 January 2019 in northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities said.

Iraq sentenced more than 600 foreigners including many women and dozens of minors in 2018 for belonging to the Islamic State group, the judiciary said on 31 December 2018.

A 25-year-old woman identified only as Noushin, 25, was hanged in Iran, the state-run Young Journalist Club reported on 22 December 2018.

A Pakistani national and two Egyptians have been executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling drugs, the kingdom’s ministry of Interior said on 1 January 2019.

Bahrain’s High Court of Appeal on 26 December 2018 unanimously upheld a verdict handed down to 26 suspects in the 2015 Abu Saiba bombings that killed a security officer and injured many others including civilians, announced Chief of the Terror Crime Prosecution Advocate General Chancellor Ahmed al-Hammadi.

The Livingstone High Court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for killing his lover’s husband, the Daily Mail reported on 28 December 2018.

On the afternoon of 28 December 2018 the Intermediate Peoples Court of Huaian City made a first instance judgment on a case of anti-gangster and anti-evil which was listed and supervised by Jiangsu Province.

Six members of the Al-Shabaab militia group were executed on 31 December 2018.

Toni Youssef, the son of the Coptic dead owner of the Roastery in Alexandria, confirmed the execution of his father's murderer, Adel Abdel-Nour, and called "Asaliyah", The Egyptians reported on 31 December 2018.

Top judges from China’s Supreme People’s Court on 20 December 2018 made a rare defence of the death penalty, with one saying “a life for a life” is ingrained among the people.

The government on 13 November 2018 reported to the National Assembly the status of death sentence implementation in the year 2018 and stated that there was a “dramatic increase from 2017, with 122 more (cases)”.