John Gardner, 64, White, was executed in Texas on 15 January 2020.

The Ministry of Interior on 9 January 2020 issued a statement regarding the execution of Fahd bin Faleh bin Khalaf Al-Dossari - a Saudi national - in the city of Riyadh for murder.

A Tunisian court on 17 January 2020 sentenced eight people to death over a suicide bombing that targeted a presidential security bus in the capital Tunis in November 2015.

The Yola Division of the Court of Appeal has sentenced three men to death by hanging for armed robbery and culpable homicide, reported The Nation on 16 January 2020.

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of Egyptian engineer Ali Abul-Qasim, who has been sentenced to death for smuggling and trafficking drugs in the kingdom, Ahram Online reported on 15 January 2020.

The Ministry of Interior on 8 January 2020 issued a statement regarding the execution of Ali bin Attia bin Hazia Al-Ataf Al-Ghamdi - a Saudi national

A local court in Ayeyarwady Region sentenced a former healthcare assistant to death by hanging on 13 January 2020 for murdering a schoolteacher and hiding the corpse after a love triangle turned violent in 2016.

The European Union Ambassador of Somalia Nicolas Berlanga firmly expressed opposition over death penalty after police carried out the execution of six inmates in Mandera Prison near Berbera on 15 January 2020 morning.

Egypt's highest civilian court on 15 January 2020 ordered a retrial of two monks sentenced to death for murdering a bishop at a Coptic Christian monastery.

The Ministry of Interior on 2nd January 2020 issued a statement regarding the execution of two prisoners for smuggling a quantity of banned amphetamine pills.

Six men who had been convicted for murder and terrorism in Somaliland were executed in Hargeisa on 15 January 2020.

The special committee looking into the abolishment of the mandatory death penalty on 15 January 2020 assured the families of murder victims that the court will still have the discretionary powers to decide on whether to impose the sentence.