A death convict has been hanged in central jail Mianwali. According to media reports, death convict Abdul Jabbar alias Bhopa had gunned down his relative 15 years ago on petty domestic problem in Ghala Mandi.

A court in Natore on 11 April 2019 sentenced four people to death and another to life term imprisonment in a case over the killing of a BCL activist in Lalpur upazila.

Global executions fell dramatically by almost a third (31%) last year to the lowest figure for at least a decade, Amnesty International said in its annual global review of the death penalty.

A woman suspected of murdering her husband was sentenced to death in Iran based solely on Qasameh, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on 8 April 2019.

A court in Barguna on 9 April 2019 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2010.

A criminal court in Iraq’s Diyala province on 8 April 2019 said it handed a death sentence to a man found guilty of involvement in the killing of three professors at a local university.

The Sharjah Criminal Court sentenced an Asian man with the death penalty for murdering his co-worker, and claiming he suffered from metal illness.

The Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance has ordered eight men accused of murder to pay Dh200,000 as blood money to the victim's family, and sentenced them to 3 years and 6 months' in jail followed by deportation, Khaleejtimes reported on 8 April 2019.

The National Seminar on "Modernization of Penal Legislation in Egypt", which started on 6 April, was held in Cairo this evening and discussed five issues related to modernizing the law system in Egypt.

Iraq’s Nineveh Criminal Court on 7 April 2019 sentenced to death a man who reportedly worked as a lawyer for the Islamic State following the emergence of the jihadist group in Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Giza Criminal Court on 6 April 2019 recommended the death penalty for seven defendants accused of orchestrating a 2016 attack on a tourist bus and hotel near Egypt’s Giza Pyramids.

A court on 4 April 2019 sentenced two accused to death and awarded seven years to another in a murder case in Okara. The judgment was announced by Additional Sessions Judge Mushtaq Ahmed.