In 2018, nine new death sentences were handed down to political prisoners.

A 30-year-old man was sentenced to death by a Narok Court on 17 Janunary 2019 after he was found guilty of robbery with violence.

Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on 20 January 2019 death sentences against five defendants charged with terrorism.

The government will not hold a public vote on the proposal to abolish the death penalty.

During the official close of the November 2018 criminal session at the High Court of Sierra Leone, on 18 January 2019, superintendent Jonathan Wilson of the Correctional Service noted that there are presently 45 condemned inmates on death row at the Correctional centre in Freetown.

A man was hanged by Iran on 10 January 2019 in the southwestern city of Kazeroon, the state-run ISNA news agency reported.

The Moroccan Coalition Against the Death Penalty has reiterated its call to the government to remove the death penalty from the country’s Penal Code.

Somali military court on 17 January 2019 sentenced military army officer to death after finding him guilty of murdering a police officer in Mogadishu on 6 October 2018, officials said.

A Cairo criminal court sentenced on 16 January 2019 one man to death and another to 15 years in prison over the rape and attempted murder of a toddler.

A prisoner on 15 January 2019 was hanged in Public at a square in Falavarjan City, Isfahan Province, in Iran. He was sentenced to death for murder and rape charges.

Some journalists were on 17 January 2019 attacked by eight people condemned to death by hanging by a Yola High Cour.

Three men lost their final appeals against their death sentences for murder convictions at the Federal Court in Kota Kinabalu on 15 January 2019.