Tokyo district court on 15 December 2020 sentenced a man to death for the 2017 murders of nine people, local media reported, ending a case that grabbed headlines in Japan with the culprit dubbed “Twitter killer” for contacting victims via the social media platform.

A Ndola woman who murdered her boyfriend, Jeremiah Mbawa, a gym instructor at Solwezi’s Floriana Lodge in December 2019, by burning him with petrol, has been sentenced to death, the Zambian Observer reported on 11 December 2020.

Netrokona High Court on 14 December 2020 acquitted five convicts who were sentenced to death for gang-raping a teenager.

A Chattogram court on 13 December 2020 sentenced 10 people to death and five others to life imprisonment in the murder case filed over killing Satkania Sonakania union parishad's former chairman Amjad Hossain 22 years ago.

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IRAN - Abdollah Mohammadi, minor at the time of crime, executed at Yazd prison on December 6, 2020.

It is the last execution of the year in the United States, the 17th.

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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.