An Egyptian court on 23 February 2019 handed down a preliminary death sentence against two monks for murdering a clergyman, according to Egypt's official MENA news agency.

Former Egyptian Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei on 21 February 2019 decried Egypt’s frequent resort to capital punishment and called for the abolition of the practice.

A Chattogram court on 10 February 2019 sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old child in Chattogram’s Hathazari.

The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) No-III, Rawalpindi Judge Abdul Raheem on 10 February 2019 awarded two times death sentence and imprisonment of 31 years to Zafar Iqbal for killing a police officer on August 10, 1999.

The Palembang District Court in South Sumatra sentenced nine people to death on 7 February 2019 after finding them guilty of transporting 80 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.

15 people have so far been executed in Egypt in February alone (7th, 13th & 20th), all were condemned among many others (present & absent) for terrorism crimes.

The Taiwan High Court on 20 February 2019 upheld convicted arsonist Weng Jen-hsien’s death sentence.

The Gujarat High Court on 18 February 2019 saved two persons—Akshay Patel and Kuldip Panchal—who had brutally murdered a four-and-a-half-year-old kid for ransom, from the gallows.

Khan Younis Court of First Instance on 29 January 2019 imposed a death sentence against a citizen (Y/A’).

Egyptian authorities executed nine young men on 20 February 2019 morning despite calls by rights groups to halt the executions over due process violations, a source close to their families told Middle East Eye.

In a statement released on 11 February 2019, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights, the Committee for Justice, and the Arab Foundation for Civil and Political Rights called for an end to the death penalty in Egypt pending “a broad societal dialogue.”

The Court of Cassation upheld on 11 February 2019 the death sentence handed down to the killer of the Imam of Bin Shaddah Mosque.