An Egyptian court on 25 November 2018 confirmed death sentence against 10 defendants over killing former public prosecutor in a bomb attack on his car in 2015, state-run Ahram newspapers reported on its website.

A Plateau High Court, sitting in Jos, on 26 November 2018 sentenced 24-year-old Godwin Banchir, to death by hanging for beating his 65-year-old mother to death for not responding to his greetings.

A Kaduna State High Court sitting in Zaria has sentenced one Abdullahi Ibrahim to death by hanging, Daily Post reported on 22 November 2018.

The Kosti criminal court in Sudan's White Nile state condemned Darfuri student Abubakar Yousef to death, and sentenced another 10 students from Darfur to prison terms, for their participation in riots at the University of Bakht El Rida in May 2017, allafrica.com reported on 22 November 2018.

The Criminal Court on 22 November 2018 sentenced a 55-year-old man to death after convicting him of murdering his wife over finance and custody matters in Zarqa in April of last year.

17 Islamic militants were sentenced to death on 22 November 2018 for their role in multiple church bombings in Egypt that killed scores of Coptic Christians.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on 23 November 2018 confirmed death sentences awarded to 11 hardcore terrorists, who were involved in attacking armed forces, other law enforcement agencies, killing an innocent civilian and destructing an educational institution.

A construction worker, who stabbed a security guard to death using a kitchen knife, has lost his appeal against the death sentence, khaleejtimes reported on 31 October 2018.

According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), a prisoner was hanged on the morning of 18 November 2018 at the northern Iranian city of Nur.

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist to death for taking an unsanctioned Muslim holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to his brother, RFA reported on 21 November 2018.

Three prisoners were hanged in public at Iranian city of Shiraz on 21 November 2018 morning.

The only female member of the heroin-trafficking "Bali Nine" gang was freed from prison on 21 November 2018, three years after the execution of the group's ringleaders caused huge tensions between Australia and Indonesia.