A 82-year-old Vietnamese man has been compensated with VND6.7 billion ($287,500) for being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death.

A Vietnamese court on 19 June 2019 sentenced two local men to death for transporting and trading illicit drug, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Colombo High Court Judge Sampath Wijeratne issued the death penalty for three defendants who were accused of several cases including the murder of an individual with the use of sharp objects

Jamal Haji-Zavareh was executed in an unknown place in Tehran, reported a close source.

The Supreme Court on 21 June 2019 overturned the death sentence awarded to a murder convict by a trial court in 2007, converting the sentence into life imprisonment.

A court in Tanzania on 19 June 2019 sentenced three Muslims to be hanged for decapitating four Christians in 2015 during an outbreak of violence fuelled by religion, a legal source said.

A father of three has been sentenced to death over the possession of heroin, as per the order of the Colombo High Court.

A woman, Fatemeh Nassiri, was hanged in Raja’i Shahr Prison (aka Gohardasht Prison) in Karaj on 19 June 2019.

Marion Wilson, 42, Black, was executed in Georgia on 20 June 2019.

Damanhour Criminal Court of Beheira Governorate has sentenced to death two members of the Muslim Brotherhood group and imprisoned three members on 10-year sentences and two members for three years.

A 45-year-old child rapist, Muhammad Jahanzeb, a resident of Charkha Khel, was hanged in Central Jail Haripur on 19 June 2019.

Ashraf Noor, convicted of murdering three women, was hanged to death on 19 June 2019 in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.