The Malaysian Bar on 5 March 2019 called upon the Pakatan Harapan government to keep its promise and abolish the death penalty at the upcoming Parliament sitting.

The Cairo Criminal Court on 3 March 2019 sentenced one man to death and four others to life imprisonment in the case known as “the October Terrorist cell” case.

Ali Shakouri, a resident of the Tarzilloo village in Orumiyeh, was executed at Choobidar prison in Qazvin on 11 February 2019.

Kenrick Lyte of Good Intent, Lower Pomeroon River, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) was found guilty of murder on 27 February 2019 by a 12-member jury at the Suddie, Essequibo Coast, High Court.

Billie Wayne Coble, 70, White, was executed on 28 February 2019.

The Supreme Court has commuted the death penalty awarded to a man for murdering a child into life imprisonment after his poems indicated that he realised his mistake and wanted to reform himself, PTI reported on 3 March 2019.

The Colombo High Court judge Shashi Mahendran on 11 February 2019 sentenced a man to death over a murder committed in 2000.

The South Korean bishops’ conference has called for an end to the death penalty, and asked the nation’s Constitutional Court to consider whether capital punishment violates South Korea’s constitution, CAN reported on 14 February 2019.

The First High Criminal Court on 27 February 2019 sentenced two defendants to death after finding them guilty of smuggling 68 kilograms of hashish from Iran through the sea

South Sudan authorities executed at least seven people in February 2019 alone, three of whom were from the same family.

Kafr al-Sheikh Criminal Court on 2 March 2019 sentenced a man who murdered his wife and three sons to the death penalty.

Human rights experts have hailed a sharp drop in executions for drug offences in 2018, even as they expressed worries over a large number of people worldwide still facing the death penalty for non-violent drug crimes.