According to the IHR sources, on the morning of 9 January 2019 at least 12 prisoners were executed at Karaj city’s Rajai Shahr prison for murder charges.

A Tunisian court has sentenced 41 jihadists to death over an attack that killed 15 soldiers on the border with Algeria in 2014, prosecutors said on 12 January 2019.

The Ministry of Justice in Rabat on 13 January 2019 has announced that King Mohammed VI has graciously pardoned 783 prisoners as part of the celebrations for the 75th Anniversary of the Manifesto of Independence.

Twelve imprisoned drug offenders on 6 December 2018 were executed in the Central Prison of Kerman, South-Eastern Iran.

A court in southern China has put a man to death after he injured 12 children in a knife attack at a kindergarten, the state broadcaster said on 7 January 2019.

A Pakistani national on 9 January 2019 was executed in Saudi Arabia’s Dammam for beating to death a Saudi national.

The Supreme Court on 9 January 2019 commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to bus driver Santosh Mane, convicted for killing nine people in 2012, by mowing them down in Pune.

A Tunisian court on 8 January 2019 sentenced five jihadists to death over the 2015 murder of a teenage shepherd.

Alyaksandr Asipovich, 36-year-old, was sentenced to death on 9 January 2019 for the murder of two girls.

A man was sentenced to death for killing a college teacher, Krishna Kaberi Biswas, in the capital’s Mohammadpur area in 2015, Star Online reported on 3 January 2019.

Netflix’s 6-episode documentary, The Innocent Man, is based on bestselling novelist John Grisham’s only non-fiction effort, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, published in 2006.

A Doha Criminal Court on 2 January 2019 sentenced two Asian men to death for the premeditated murder of their employer, and a third man to six months in jail for being aware of the crime and not reporting it.