The Ndola High Court has sentenced to death a 33 year old inmate for rape and murder of a woman at a farm in Luanshya, Zambia Reports reported on 2nd February 2020.

The Supreme military Court in Somaliland has handed down a death sentence to a police officer who was found guilty of killing innocent man near Wajale town in Gebiley district, Somaliland New Agency (SOLNA) reported on 3 February 2020.

A High Court in Jos on 3 February 2020 sentenced two men, Dayabu Ahmad 20, and Umar Aliyu, 21, to death by hanging for armed robbery. Justice S.P Gang, found the convicts guilty of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.

Lusaka businessman Nshinka Kaputo who murdered Multichoice employee Precious Mangesana who was his lover, on 29 January 2020 was sentenced to death by hanging and 25 years imprisonment with hard labour four causing grievous harm to his three-year-old daughter.

A Cairo criminal court on 1st February 2020 handed preliminary death sentences to leading terrorist Hisham Ashmawy and 36 others in the case known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, convicting them of executing over 50 assassination attacks on policemen.

Hours before he was to be executed, Jimmy Fletcher Meders was granted clemency — largely because of what the jurors said when they were contacted 30 years after the trial.

Three men, Nuhu Jimoh, Ndubisi David and Aderibigbe Oluwaseun, arrested for armed robbery, were sentenced to death by hanging on 30 January 2020 by an Osun State High Court.

A defendant, who is charged with killing seven members of the same family and setting their house on fire in Kafr el-Dawar city in Beheira govenorate, was sentenced to death on 30 January 2020.

The Council of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus has decided to establish a working group on studying abolition of death penalty at the National Assembly.

An Indonesian court has sentenced to death an inmate for running a drug-trafficking operation from behind bars.

A criminal court in the United Arab Emirates ordered on 26 January 2020 the execution of a convict in the 2018 death of 2 Emirati youths who died a sword fight.

Three people who bludgeoned another to death with a hammer and a brick on 28 January 2020 were condemned to death in Bahrain.