UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on 16 June 2020 expressed his concern about the death sentences issued against journalists by a Houthi court in Sanaa.

The Bahraini Cassation Court upheld on 15 June 2020 death sentences against political detainees Zuheir Ibrahim Jassim and Hussein Abdullah Rashid.

The Supreme Court on 15 June 2020 refused to award death penalty to a convict, who committed rape and murder of a nine-year-old child last year in Telangana.

Death row inmate Ho Duy Hai’s sentence for murder was re-affirmed by Vietnam’s top court in a meeting on 15 June 2020 of the National Assembly, state media reported.

Australia’s prime minister said on 16 June 2020 that his government is “very sad and concerned” by China’s sentencing of an Australian man to death for drug trafficking.

USA - 4 federal executions scheduled in July and August. These executions are unlikely to occur.

According to the Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri, five people were executed on 10 June 2020 at Rajai Shahr prison.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on 12 June 2020 handed down death sentences on five Vietnamese citizens charged with illegally trading and trafficking drugs in Vietnam.

The Cairo Criminal Court has handed down death sentences to three defendants over the failed assassination of Alexandria's Chief of the Security Directorate Mostafa Al-Nemr in March 2018, the Daily News reported on 14 June 2020.

For some years, Hands off Cain has published the annual number of people killed by the police.

On the early morning of 10 June 2020, Rahin Yousefi was hanged at Ormiyeh prison, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).

Eleven of the 16 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Bahrain earlier granted royal pardon have been deported to the Philippines, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on 11 June 2020.