The federal government on Dec. 10, 2020 executed Brandon Bernard as appeals across several weeks from advocacy groups, jurors and others for a stay to his execution went unheeded.

The State Security Court (SSC) on 2 December 2020 sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of an Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) agent in 2017.

A court on 11 December 2020 sentenced a 41-year-old man to death for murdering five people in 2018 at a home in the prefecture of Kagoshima.

USA - Federal. Brandon Bernard, 40, Black, was executed.

Tanzania’s president on 9 December 2020 commuted the sentences of 256 convicts on death row, marking a first for a country that has not executed anyone in nearly three decades.

Taiwan's government should correct the numerous procedural problems in the way the death penalty is carried out, Taiwan's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on 10 December 2020, Human Rights Day.

Two men were executed on 9 December 2020 in two different Iranian prisons for a murder committed in 2017.

USA - "Death Penalty Action": Voices of Opposition to Federal Executions Grow Louder

IRAN - Daniel Divani-Azar executed at Miandoab Prison on December 9.

IRAN - Kamal Asghari was executed at Mahabad Prison on December 9, 2020.

IRAN - The death sentence of the AmadNews Telegram channel director, Ruhollah Zam, has been upheld

The Doha Court of Appeal has sentenced two residents to death for killing an elderly man with a knife after tying him with a rope and mutilating his corpse, The Doha Globe reported on 8 December 2020.