King Mohammed VI has ordered a royal pardon for 1,446 convicts on the eve of Throne Day, which will take place on 30 July 2020.

The People's Court of the southern province of Tay Ninh handed a death penalty to a Cambodian drug trafficker during a trial on 31 July 2020.

A senior Chinese Communist Party official charged with taking bribes worth more than $100 million was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, Xinhua news agency reported on 31 July 2020.

USA - Federal. The 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence.

Magai Matiop Ngong on 29 July 2020 was removed from death row following the South Sudan Court of Appeal’s decision on 14 July to quash the death sentence imposed on him because he was a child at the time of the crime.

The Supreme Court has overturned death sentence of two brothers – Sikandar Hayat and Jamshed Ali – who have spent 27 years of their lives in jail on account of “the right of expectancy of life”.

IRAN - Appeal for Abbas Lisani

Damanhur Criminal Court in Egypt on 29 July 2020 referred the case of twenty-year-old bride Amira to the Grand Mufti of Egypt so he can issue a religious opinion on the death sentence resulting from charges that she killed her husband, al-Shahat, 28, five days after their wedding ceremony.

IRAN - Judiciary Blocks Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Bank Account, Cutting Off Funds for Family.

Egypt on 28 July 2020 executed seven people over the killing of a police officer in the northeastern city of Ismailiya in 2013, a security official said.

A young Pakistani Muslim walked into a courtroom in the northwestern city of Peshawar on 29 July 2020 and shot and killed a fellow Muslim who was on trial for blasphemy, a police officer said.

Two suspected masterminds in the murder of former Executive Secretary of Enugu State Committee on Adada state creation, Mr Ejimofor Ozongwu, were sentenced to death on 27 July 2020 by an Enugu State High Court.