In order to provide speedy justice and clear the massive backlog of cases, the Model Courts on 23 November 2019 awarded death sentence to six and Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) to 19 accused in cases of murder and drugs smuggling.

Four men were sentenced to death by a Lang Son Province court on 19 November 2019 for trafficking over 100 kg of drugs.

For the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1985, a majority of Americans now say life imprisonment is a better approach for punishing murder than is the death penalty.

The somali Military Court on 21 November 2019 sentenced alleged Al-Shabaab member, Abdullahi Ali Adan, to death for his role in last year’s killing of Sufi Cleric, Sheikh Abdiweli Ali Elmi Yare in Galkayo.

An Egyptian court on 25 November 2019 handed down death sentences to seven people convicted of carrying out attacks that killed 11 policemen in 2016.

The Pakistan Army on 23 November 2019 hanged Brig. Raja Rizwan (retd) after he was convicted of spying for a foreign intelligence agency, social media posts indicated.

A federal judge in Washington has issued a preliminary injunction barring the United States government from carrying out four executions scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020.

A Malaysian, Abd Helmi Ab Halim, on 22 November 2019 was hanged at Changi Prison after having been convicted of drug trafficking in 2017.

Hundreds of former state and federal judges, prosecutors, law enforcement and corrections officials, and family members of homicide victims have signed on to a series of letters urging the federal government to halt the five federal executions scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020.

Mali’s court on 19 November 2019 sentenced the murderer of an Imam to death.

A migrant worker from Srikakulam village in Andhra Pradesh has been sentenced to death by an Egyptian lower court for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of drugs, the New Indian Express reported on 22 November 2019.

Governors of the thirty- six states of the country under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF), said on 20 November 2019 that no governor has come out to support the death penalty proposed for Hate Speech offenders.