Abd Al Tawab Sayed Youssef, the Egyptian man who was found guilty in Kuwait of murdering a Kuwaiti woman and her Saudi mother in October 2015, has been sentenced to death by hanging, Al Anba daily reported on 27 December 2020.

Four people charged in Tanzania with the murder of former Chadema Geita regional chairman Alphonce Mawazo were on 24 December 2020 given death sentence after the High Court found them guilty.

IRAN - Mehraban Barahouei and Khodadad Nohatani executed on December 26 at Zahedan Central Prison.

IRAN - Seyed Paki executed in Qom Central Prison on December 26.

IRAN - Abdulhamid Mir-Balouchzehi hanged on December 26 in the Prison of Zahedan.

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa on 17 December 2020 sentenced a 29-year-old mechanic, Sola Emorua, to death by hanging for armed robbery.

USA - Federal. Stay of Lisa Montgomery’s execution.

A Rawalpindi criminal trial court for gender-based violence sentenced on 19 December 2020 Muhammad Ayub to death for raping a 12-year-old differently-abled girl, ARY News reported.

2,553 death row prisoners.

Japan’s highest court has upheld a ruling granting a retrial to a man described as the world’s longest-serving death row inmate.

Al Shabaab militants in Lower Shabelle on 22 December 2020 publicly executed by firing squad a man for murder.

USA - Pennsylvania. Former Death-Row Prisoner Roderick Johnson is Freed.