In a vote death-penalty opponents praised as “historic,” a veto-proof supermajority of the New Hampshire legislature on 11 April 2019 gave final approval to a bill that would repeal the state’s death penalty statute.

The court of cassation on 13 April 2019 sentenced two Iranians to death for killing a ruling family member, another Kuwaiti and an Indonesian woman in an armed robbery in 2016.

Twelve years after killing an ex-policeman the two killers have been sentenced to death by hanging, Ghanaweb reported on 13 April 2019.

Zhang Koukou, who killed three people in revenge for his mother's death, had his death penalty sentence upheld by Shaanxi Provincial High People's Court after a second trial on 11 April 2019.

According to HRANA website, prisoner Davoud Mohebzadeh, 36, was hanged on 7 April 2019 at Gorgan prison.

Two members of a drug gang in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on 11 April 2019 were sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering a family of six.

North Korean authorities staged a public trial and shot two female fortune tellers to death last month, forcing tens of thousands of people to watch, in what appeared to be a resumption of public executions.

The Grand Criminal Court sentenced on 7 April 2019 a 43-year-old man to hang after he had killed his wife and shot his young daughter with a gun in October 2016 in Zarqa governorate.

A death convict has been hanged in central jail Mianwali. According to media reports, death convict Abdul Jabbar alias Bhopa had gunned down his relative 15 years ago on petty domestic problem in Ghala Mandi.

A court in Natore on 11 April 2019 sentenced four people to death and another to life term imprisonment in a case over the killing of a BCL activist in Lalpur upazila.

Global executions fell dramatically by almost a third (31%) last year to the lowest figure for at least a decade, Amnesty International said in its annual global review of the death penalty.

A woman suspected of murdering her husband was sentenced to death in Iran based solely on Qasameh, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on 8 April 2019.