Kazakhstan has joined the international document to abolish the death penalty, Trend News Agency reported on 24 September 2020 with reference to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Iranian regime executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari on 12 September 2020.

Al-Shabaab on 31 May 2020 sentenced a man named Abukar Haji Omar, 50, to death and executed him on the outskirts of Qoryoley town, in the Lower Shebelle region.

According to Khorasan newspaper online, two men were executed in Mashhad Central Prison on 15 September 2020. The two prisoners who were sentenced to death for rape, were brothers.

The governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state has signed a law saying men convicted of rape will face surgical castration, and anyone raping a child under age 14 will face the death penalty, AP reported on 17 September 2020.

A Pakistani court on 22 September 2020 handed death sentences to two accused and life imprisonment to four others in a 2012 factory fire case, court records and lawyers said.

The Court of Appeal has condemned a man of Solwezi to death for killing his wife whom he allegedly found in their bed committing adultery with another man, the Daily Mail reported on 21 September 2020.

Two people were sentenced to death by a Natore court on 21 September 2020 for killing freedom fighter Dr Aynal Haque, also a former president of the Baraigram upazila unit Awami League in Natore.

The Sessions Court in Sahiwal on 21 September 2020 handed down a major verdict in the rape and murder case.

A court in the north-central province of Ha Tinh sentenced a drug mule to death on 18 September 2020.

The High Court in Dar es Salaam on 18 September 2020 ordered five people to be hanged to death for killing former prominent lawyer and politician, Dr Edmund Sengondo Mvungi.

The military court martial in Juba on 18 September 2020 sentenced to death a police officer and a soldier accused of killing a lecturer early this year.