Human rights activists are urging Uzbekistan to deny a Chinese extradition request for an ethnic Kazakh citizen of China who is now stuck in the Central Asian nation’s main air terminal, Reuters reported on 8 February 2019.

Yemen on 7 February 2019 executed two men for abducting, raping and murdering a 12-year-old boy by shooting them in public.

At least three prisoners were executed on 13 February 2019 in Raja’i Shahr and Ardebil Prisons.

Justice Olabisi Akinlade of the Lagos State High Court on 6 February 2019 sentenced the Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Boundary/Aiyetoro unit area of the state, Saheed Arogundade, to death by hanging for the murder of a police officer.

An Ado-Ekiti High Court on 7 February 2019 sentenced two men, Oluwayomi Adedayo, 27, and Seyi Daramola, 23, to death for armed robbery.

A court in Myanmar on 15 February 2019 sentenced two men to death for the killing of a prominent Muslim lawyer who was a close adviser to the country’s top leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Washington Senate on 15 February 2019 passed death penalty repeal bill (SB 5339).

In a landmark judgment, sessions judge, Senapati district, A. Noutuneshwari, on 5 February 2019 awarded death penalty to a 29-year old man Yumkhaibam Rohit alias Rajesh, son of late Y. Riyajuddin of Khergao Makha Leikai, for murdering his girlfriend Pukhrihongam Memi Chanu daughter of P. Gourasing Meetei in August last year at Kshetrigao Thambalkhong Makha Leikai.

Four people have been sentenced to death for abducting and murdering a nursery school student in Sunamganj’s Chhatak Upazila.

Hands Off Cain, in the forty years of the Khomeini’s revolution, makes known the death penalty figures in Iran in 2018.

A Kenyan court on 14 February 2019 sentenced a former senior police officer to death for killing a detainee in his custody.

According to Iran Human Rights sources, two prisoners were executed secretly on the morning of 30 January 2019 at Rajai Shahr prison. IHR could not yet identify them by name.