Government has shown its commitment towards abolishing the death penalty in line with international human rights obligations after it commuted sentences of 34 inmates on death row to life terms, a Cabinet minister said on 31 January 2019.

Sun Kuo-huang was spared the death sentence on 24 February 2019 in favor of life imprisonment in the fourth retrial for 2010 murder of a graduate student in Kaohsiung.

Eight defendants out of 292 people accused of attempting to assassinate Egypt's President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and former Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in Saudi Arabia, were sentenced to death on 4 February 2019.

Two death sentences have been issued in Gaza within one week, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reported on 4 February 2019.

The Supreme Court on 4 February 2019 halted the death sentence of a convict, Muhammad Siddique, who was scheduled to be executed on 7 February at the Gujranwala Central Jail.

A Tamil Nadu man, who was facing death penalty in Kuwait, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the government after his family raised 30 lakh rupees 'blood money' to pay the victim's family.

An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced to death a man for killing his wife and three children in their home in the Nile Delta’s Kafr El-Sheikh city, Ahram reported on 3 February 2019.

In 2018 nine new death sentences were handed down to political prisoners, secondo il Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)

A legislative intervention to extend capital punishment to non-homicide crimes may be the reason for a higher number of death penalties handed out in 2018.

Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges in Pakistan, has arrived in Canada with her husband, German media reported on 1 February 2019, quoting her lawyer.

Egypt’s Cabinet on 30 January 2019 approved a draft law amending some provisions of Law No. 182 of 1960 on regulating the use of drugs and combating trafficking.

A woman only identified as M.A. was hanged on 30 January 2019 morning in the Prison of Nowshahr, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran.