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.

Cairo’s Criminal Court referred the death sentences of three individuals found guilty for the death of a child to Grand Mufti Shawky Allam for approval on 22 December 2020.

Al Shabab militants in Somalia on 22 December 2020 publicly cut off the right hands of a man after a sharia court convicted him of breaking into a shop and stealing about a 26,000 Somali shilling.

The Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan decided that there was no need to amend the Constitution for the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty.

A Dhaka court on 20 December 2020 sentenced a woman and another one to death for killing her son Shamiul.

IRAN - A woman executed in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz. This is the 110th woman executed during the tenure of Rouhani

IRAN - Agents of the Intelligence Ministry destroyed the tomb of Navid Afkari

According to Iran Human Rights, two prisoners were executed at Zahedan Central Prison on the morning of 19 December 2020. The two prisoners, identified as Behnam Rigi and Shoaib Rigi, had been on death row for “drug-related” charges.

A criminal court in Shebeen El-Kom, Menoufiya, has sentenced a man convicted of murdering writer and critic Nafisa Qandil, the wife of renowned Egyptian poet Mohamed Afify Matar, to death.