The share of Belarusians who support the use of the death penalty increased from 52% in 2016 to 60% in 2017, a poll by the Presidential Administration’s Information and Analytical Center showed.

A Jordanian court sentenced two brothers to death on 10 February 2019 in connection with a 2016 attack claimed by the Islamic State group, overturning a life sentence handed to the men last year.

The Court of Appeal on 8 February 2019 confirmed the death sentences of four men convicted of killing a cab driver in Gaborone and a Gantsi farm owner respectively.

Thursday, February 14th at 3:00 pm, the Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty will hold a demonstration in front of the Iranian embassy (in Rome, Via Nomentana, 361) to denounce the "Iranian danger" in the days when two world conferences are held in Warsaw and Munich on the subject.

Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court on 31 January 2019 passed the death penalty on a Bahraini national and sentenced 23 other activists to life in prison, the Arabic-language Lualua television network reported.

An Osun State High Court on 4 February 2019 sentenced three persons to death over the murder of a 400-level student, Oluwafemi Timileyin Sonibare.

Egyptian authorities executed three political prisoners on 7 February 2019, one year after they were sentenced to death on charges of killing the son of a judge, according to local rights activists.

Dominique Ray, 42, Black, was executed on 7 February 2019.

A prisoner was executed on murder charges at Tabriz Central Prison on 29 January 2019 morning. He was transferred to a solitary confinement cell on 28 January.

The House of Representatives removed all provisions that would reimpose the death penalty in the bill seeking to amend provisions of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

The Sindh High Court (SHC) commuted on 28 January 2019 the death sentence of a criminal, convicted of committing a murder during a robbery bid.

A security guard has been condemned to death by hanging for murdering a man he found loitering outside his work place, the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) offices in Luanshya, the Daily Mail reported on 27 January 2019.