A court has upheld a death sentence imposed on seven men who murdered two fishermen on Lake Victoria.
A court in northeast China's Liaoning Province on 9 July 2019 sentenced a man to death for killing six children and injuring 20 people after driving into a group of children crossing a road.
The First Instance Court on 9 July 2019 issued a death sentence by hanging against J. M. (69), from Jabalia after convicting him with the murder of (A. A.) on 15 February 2018.
Somalia’s Puntland State military court on 17 February 2019 sentenced four young men to death while three others were handed fines after they were convicted of murder, Garowe Online reports.
Sweden's Supreme Court said on 9 July 2019 it was refusing the extradition of a Chinese man accused of economic crimes because the man risks persecution and the death penalty in China.
Somali government on 10 July 2019 executed three men in Mogadishu for involvement in the deadly siege at a hotel that killed at least 18 people and injured 48 in October 2017, Garowe Online reports.
Al-Shabab on 4 July 2019 shot and killed five men in Salagle town in southern Somalia.
A man who allegedly married the daughters of his wife before getting divorce was executed on 27 June 2019 by Al-shabab group in Somalia’s Lower Shabelleh Region.
A court run by Yemen's Huthi rebels on 9 July 2019 sentenced 30 academics, trade unionists and preachers to death for allegedly spying for the Saudi-led coalition, a judicial source said.
The Supreme Court on 4 July 2019 stayed the execution of death penalty awarded to seven men convicted of raping and murdering a mentally-challenged woman in Rohtak in 2015.
Al-Shabaab militia group on 3 July 2019 executed five Somali men in Hagar area of Lower Jubba region of Somalia on claims of spying.
Al-Shabab militants put to death four people in the southern town of Jamame on 7 July 2019, immediately after the judge in an al-Shabab court declared them guilty.
