Hands Off Cain considers the execution by hanging of Mostafa Salehi, one of the detainees for the anti-regime demonstrations that took place between December 2017 and January 2018, which took place yesterday in the Dastgerd prison in Isfahan, extremely serious.

China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death on charges of manufacturing the drug ketamine amid heightened tension between the two countries.

Political prisoner Mostafa Salehi was hanged at dawn on 5 August 2020 in a prison in Isfahan.

Nuwara Eliya High Court on 4 August 2020 sentenced a man to death for the murder of his three and half year old daughter.

Turkey extradited a fugitive military officer who was allegedly behind a high-profile leak in the Algerian army, reports said on 4 August 2020.

IRAN - Political prisoner Mostafa Salehi was hanged on August 5 in Isfahan prison.

USA - Arizona. At least 8 death row prisoners tested positive for COVID-19, 1 died (Alfonso Salazar)

USA - California. 10th death row inmate (Johnny Avila) dies from COVID-19.

The Vijayawada Special POCSO Act Court in Andhra Pradesh on 4 August 2020 awarded death penalty to an accused, Barlapudi Pentaiah, 43, alias Aaya, who raped and murdered an eight-year-old girl in Bhavanipuram area.

Prisones Morteza Pirkhezri was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 31 July 2020.

The 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on 31 July 2020 overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence.

Former MP, SLPP (Sri Lanka People's Front) candidate from Rathnapura district, Premalal Jayasekara and two others on 31 July 2020 were sentenced to death over a fatal shooting incident during President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s campaign in Kahawatta in the run up for the 2015 Presidential Election.