Colorado became the 22nd U.S. state to abolish the death penalty, and the tenth to do so in the past decade-and-a-half, as Governor Jared Polis signed legislation repealing the state’s capital punishment statute.

A smuggler in his 50s was recently executed in North Pyongan Province, sources told Daily NK earlier in March 2020.

An appeals court in Sana’a, Yemen, ruled on 22 March 2020 to uphold a religiously-motivated death sentence against Hamed bin Haydara, a Baha’i who has been imprisoned since 2013.

A young man who was arrested during the protests in November 2019 in Iran was sentenced to death.

Syrian President Bashar Assad granted amnesty and reduced sentences for all crimes committed before 22 March 2020, while also offering amnesty to military deserters who turn themselves in within the next few months.

A serial rapist from Bulawayo who raped and murdered a woman from Cowdray Park suburb who was coming from fetching firewood with her two neighbours was on 20 March 2020 sentenced to death.

The Spokesman of Iran’s Judiciary on 19 March 2020 said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will pardon about 10,000 prisoners “more than half of who are serving security-related jail terms”.

India hanged four men on 20 March 2020 who were convicted for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi in 2012, in a case that shocked the world and shamed the country over its appalling record for crimes against women.

An additional district and session court Sargodha Judge Farhan Muddasir on 19 March 2020 awarded death sentence to a man in Inspector murder case.

Gujranwala Model Court Special Judge Shakeel Ahmed Sapra on 18 March 2020 awarded death sentence to a murder accused.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on 18 March 2020 sentenced one Muritala Salami to death for armed robbery.

A Japanese man who was sentenced to death over the 2016 murder of 19 mentally impaired people at a care home near Tokyo said on 18 March 2020 he will not appeal the ruling.