On the early morning of 10 June 2020, Rahin Yousefi was hanged at Ormiyeh prison, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).

Eleven of the 16 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Bahrain earlier granted royal pardon have been deported to the Philippines, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on 11 June 2020.

An Australian man on 10 June 2020 was sentenced to death in China on drug charges, federal government said, a development that could further escalate tensions between the two countries.

A man was found guilty for murdering his girlfriend and sentenced to death by hanging by the Kuching High Court on 10 June 2020.

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on 9 June 2020 set aside the decision of a Lower Court and acquitted two death sentence convicts for lack of evidence in a double murder case.

The Kalutara High Court on 11 June 2020 handed down the death sentence on four suspects proven guilty of murder.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River state, has dismissed the appeal filed by Stephen Anona, 37, who was sentenced to death by hanging for murder, The Nation reported on 9 June 2020.

President Mnangagwa has reiterated his call for the abolition of capital punishment in Zimbabwe and has noted that a moratorium on executions has been in place since 2005.

The Federal Court was told on 9 June 2020 that amendments to make the death penalty mandatory for cases involving drug trafficking and murder were constitutional as the legislature was empowered to do so.

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, presided over by Justice J. Kolawole Omotosho, on 3 June 2020 convicted five persons for murder, kidnapping and possession of illegal fire arms, with three of the suspects sentenced to death by hanging.

A Pakistani court on 8 June 2020 commuted the death sentence for a defendant who has spent the last 18 years on death row for a crime he was convicted of committing when he was a juvenile, a local advocacy group said.

According to the Iranian state TV news, a man, identified only as N.A., has been executed in the central prison of Shahrekord, the capital city of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province.