Two prisoners were hanged on 8 December 2018 at the prisons of Karaj and Bandar Abbas.

Iran on 6 December 2018 executed 12 prisoners in Kerman Central Prison, most of them convicted of drug charges.

This year, seven people, including one child, were hanged, the highest number since South Sudan gained independence in 2011, according to evidence provided to Amnesty International by legal professionals and government officials.

In a stern action against an Honor Killing case in Haryana, a court awarded death penalty to a man on 5 December 2018 who was guilty of murdering his sister.

Two men convicted of drug trafficking escaped the gallows on 5 December 2018, after the Court of Appeal found them not guilty and acquitted them in a split 2-1 decision.

A Delhi court on 19 November 2018 awarded death penalty to one of the accused in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The conviction of Yashpal Singh came as first capital punishment in the case.

Hands Off Cain's mission to Zimbabwe ended in Harare.

Seyed Danial ZeinolAbedini is a juvenile offender whose death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is scheduled for execution, Iran Human Rights reported on 1 December 2018.

The Supreme Court on 28 November 2018 commuted the death penalty imposed on a Chhattisgarh man convicted of killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth.

Zimbabwe is moving closer toward abolishing capital punishment as proposals to that effect will soon be tabled before cabinet, local media reported.

Joseph Christopher Garcia, 47, Hispanic, was executed on 4 December 2018.