A special POCSO court in Odisha's Cuttack on 19 September 2019 awarded the death sentence to Mohammad Mustaq for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl.

Uyghur intellectual Tashpolat Tiyip may be facing imminent execution by the Chinese government after two years of languishing in secret detention, Amnesty International warned on 9 September 2019.

A Vietnamese woman on 17 September 2019 was sentenced to death for smuggling 22 bricks of heroin weighing 7.73 kilograms from Laos into Vietnam.

A sessions judge in Sargodha has awarded the death sentence for five times to a woman for killing her husband, son and three daughters, The Nation reported on 17 September 2019.

A tribunal in Rajshahi gave death penalty to three people for killing a woman and her son in 2014, bangladeshpost.net reported on 18 September 2019.

A Singaporean couple who wore anti-death penalty t-shirts at a running event are under investigation for violating tough laws against public protests, police said on 18 September 2019.

A court in Karachi on 27 August 2019 awarded death sentence to a man for killing his daughter for ‘honour’.

A U.N. human rights expert on 12 August 2019 called on the French government to repatriate and try seven French nationals sentenced to death on terror charges in Iraq.

Saudi Arabia has executed 134 people so far this year, including six who were kids when they were arrested, The Death Penalty Project revealed in a report presented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

A 43-year-old man in Gulu, Uganda, has been sentenced to death for murder, URN reported on 22 August 2019.

Somali Military Court in Baidoa town on 18 August 2019 upheld death sentence against three members of armed forces for murder.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on 15 September 2019 issued a decree to release or decrease the punishment of various prisoners, including some detained under the war-torn country's "terrorism law".