The firing squad of the Al-Shabaab militia group on 19 December 2018 publicly executed a suspected government military officer in Middle Shabelle’s Galboole village.

A court in Osaka on 19 December 2018 sentenced a man to death for the murders of a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.

President Mnangagwa wants the death penalty banned and the Zimbabwean government is pressing ahead with plans to have the death penalty removed from its statutes, Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi said on 19 December 2018.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on 16 December 2018 released details of the death sentences awarded to convicted terrorists and their executions following trial by military courts.

According to the Iranian website, Rokna, a 50 years old man was executed on the morning of 12 December 2018 at Mashhad Central Prison.

A district court on 15 December 2018 sentenced Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem alias Sk Samir, who had links with terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, to death for "waging war against the country".

The ATC Court, Sukkur, on 13 December 2018 awarded capital punishment to two suicide bombers for attacking the Shikarpur shrine, which claimed the lives of four people including the custodian of the shrine, Hajan Shah Mari Waro and injured 17 in 2013.

A soldier of the Special Forces Command and a security guard were on 14 December 2018 sentenced to death for the murder of a Mobile Money agent over two years ago.

A Plateau High Court sitting in Jos on 13 December 2018 sentenced 24-year-old man, Binfa Lamde, to death-by-hanging for hacking his stepmother to death.

A record number of UN member states on 17 December 2018 supported at the final vote a key UN General Assembly resolution calling for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.

The Damascus Criminal Court has handed down death sentences to the head of Tahrir al-Sham Mohamed al-Sharaa, known by his alias Abu Muhammad al-Julani and Jaysh al-Islam group head Essam al-Buwaydhani, aawsat.com reported on 12 December 2018.

Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed the death sentences awarded to 15 hardcore terrorists, a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations said on 16 December 2018.