An Iranian court on 29 December 2019 sentenced Kurd Political Prisoner Houshmand Alipour to death.

The Iranian Resistance on 15 December 2019 announced that the number of those killed by security forces during Iran protests exceeded 1,500.

Four of the 6 Masaka machete- wielding men have been sentenced to death by General Court Martial sitting in Makidye, The Tower Post reported on 16 December 2019.

The Criminal Court in Songkhla has sentenced six people, including the Muang Singha Nakhon municipal mayor, to death and another to life imprisonment for the murder of a municipal director in July last year, reported the Bangkok Post on 24 December 2019.

Four men sentenced to death for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shockwaves across the world will be hanged on 22 January in Tihar Jail in the national Capital, an Indian court ruled on 7 January 2020.

Bahrain’s top criminal court has reimposed the death penalty on two pro-democracy activists using “false confessions” obtained under torture, rights groups said on 8 January 2020.

Justice Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has backed a proposal to implement the death penalty for drug smugglers.

The Lusaka High Court on 3 January 2020 convicted and sentenced a police officer, Edwin Kabasiya, to death by hanging for the murder of his colleague Lennox Kapila.

The Ministry of Justice issued a statement on 29 July 2019 to announce the royal pardons granted in the event of the King Mohammed’s 20th Throne Day.

James Dailey was convicted for the murder of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio out of Pinellas County, Florida, but another man says he is the killer.

An Egyptian military court sentenced on 27 November 2019 a former military officer to death over plotting and carrying out terrorist operations in Egypt, the Egyptian military spokesman said in a statement.

The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), says about 2,745 inmates condemned to death are awaiting execution in its facilities across the country.