Eight men were executed on 24 February 2020 in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020.

Tennessee executed by electrocution Nicholas Sutton on 20 February 2020, one day after Governor Bill Lee denied a petition for clemency that had been supported by 7 correctional officers, 5 jurors, and members of the victims’ families.

A Kano State High Court on 21 February 2020 sentenced one Rashida Saidu to death by hanging for killing her husband, Adamu Ali.

Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on 24 February 2020 awarded an accused six time death penalty and 74 years imprisonment.

A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced three people arrested in the heat of anti-government protests last November to death, Radio Farda reported on 23 February 2020.

Ten people involved in a drug ring had the death penalty upheld in a Hanoi court on 18 February 2020, according to Vietnam News.

Botswana has hanged a 29-year old man for murdering his employer, prison services announced on 21 February 2020, despite mounting calls by rights groups to abolish the death penalty.

The Court of Cassation presided over by Judge Ahmad Al-Ajeel has commuted death sentence by hanging to life imprisonment for two security operatives affiliated to Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense respectively who were accused of kidnapping and raping a Kuwaiti woman in a desert area, Arab Times reported on 23 February 2020.

A judge in Lebanon’s highest court on 20 February 2020 overturned the death sentence of Tarek Houshieh, who was convicted of raping and murdering British embassy employee Rebecca Dykes in December 2017.

An Additional Sessions Judge in Attock on 20 February 2020 handed a man death sentence on five counts for slaughtering five members of a family in Jatial village in Hazro on 14 June 2018.

Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of an Ikeja High Court on 16 December 2019 sentenced to death, Prince Adewale Oyekan, the son of the late Oba of Lagos, Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, for the murder of Alhaja Sikirat Ekun, a 62-year-old businesswoman and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Sun Xiaoguo, a notorious culprit of multiple high-profile crimes in China, was executed on 20 February 2020 in south-west China's Yunnan province.