A judge in Lebanon’s highest court on 20 February 2020 overturned the death sentence of Tarek Houshieh, who was convicted of raping and murdering British embassy employee Rebecca Dykes in December 2017.

An Additional Sessions Judge in Attock on 20 February 2020 handed a man death sentence on five counts for slaughtering five members of a family in Jatial village in Hazro on 14 June 2018.

Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of an Ikeja High Court on 16 December 2019 sentenced to death, Prince Adewale Oyekan, the son of the late Oba of Lagos, Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, for the murder of Alhaja Sikirat Ekun, a 62-year-old businesswoman and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Sun Xiaoguo, a notorious culprit of multiple high-profile crimes in China, was executed on 20 February 2020 in south-west China's Yunnan province.

A special Lahore anti-terrorism court on 19 February 2020 sentenced three men to death for the 2014 suicide attack at the Wagah Border. Over 50 people were killed and 100 injured in the attack.

Winding up the trial in little over a month, a special court in Telangana on 30 January 2020 sentenced three men to death for raping and murdering a Dalit woman last year. The court also imposed a total fine of Rs 26,000 on them.