The controller general, Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), Ahmed Jafa’aru on 5 September 2019 revealed that Nigeria now has 2,742 inmates on death row.
Once filled with hatred and anger toward a truck driver who killed his son, Tadaari Katayama now is an unlikely anti-death penalty advocate.
A 59-year-old man was sentenced to death in the High Court after being found in possession of 52.75 g of diamorphine, also known as heroin, for the purpose of drug trafficking.
A Syrian court sentenced to death the employers of a Filipina househelper after they were found guilty of her murder in 2017, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on 9 September 2019.
Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) has cancelled the death penalty that was issued against Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) leader Malik Agar, his deputy Yasir Arman, and 15 others in 2014.
The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced two people to death and gave life sentences to four others for trading 5.6 kilograms of drugs at a trial on 5 September 2019.
Somalia Military court sentenced death penalty to Hashi Ali Mohamud a Government Soldier who killed three brothers in June 2018 at Mogadishu’s Kaaran District.
Parliament in Uganda on 21 August 2019 passed a law that abolishes the mandatory death penalty for certain crimes, amending four different laws that had earlier prescribed capital punishment, including the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawallen, on 9 August 2019 granted amnesty to 150 inmates at the Gusau Maximum Security Prison.
Billy Jack Crutsinger, 64, White, was executed in Texas on 4 September 2019.
More than 100 individuals have been executed in Iraq since January, with a staggering 8,000 more on death row, according to Iraq's UN-approved human rights body.
A court in east China's Jiangsu Province has sentenced 19 gang members to prison for cross-border drug trafficking, Xinhua reported on 4 September 2019.
