A two-day symposium on the modernization of the penal system was held in Cairo on December 14-15.

The Colombo High Court sentenced to death two accused after they were found guilty of hacking to death a 17-year-old boy in 2001, News First reported on 12 December 2019.

A court sentenced a former policeman to death on 13 December 2019 for choking his wife and two children to death at their home in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in June 2017.

A woman by the name of Maryam on 8 December 2019 was hanged with her husband in the Central Prison of Mashhad.

Travis Trevino Runnels, 46, Black, was executed on December 11, 2019 in Texas.

The Court of Appeal of Putrajaya on 10 December 2019 upheld the death sentence of a businessman for the murder of a scrap metal collector at Kampung Labohan, Kerteh, Terengganu, in December 2015.

Drug trafficker “Kalu Thushara” was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court on 10 December 2019.

Seven prisoners were hanged on 9 December 2019 in two different Iranian cities.

Zambia on 10 December 2019 joined the rest of the world in commemorating the 2019 Human Rights Day with Vice-President Inonge Wina saying the government was open to discussions on the possibilities of abolishing the death penalty.

Judge Hani Mahjoub of the Criminal Court of Khartoum North sentenced three men to death by hanging for murder, Radio Dabanga reported on 11 December 2019.

State High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital has sentenced a woman, Mrs Agnes Nwefuru, to death by hanging for killing her co-wife and seven children.

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on 9 December 2019 extended the interim order staying the implementation of the death penalty on the prisoners who were sentenced to death for drug offenses until 20 March.