Two border guard officers and two rank-and-file soldiers implicated in the recent smuggling case that prompted a lockdown on the city of Hyesan on 22 November 2020 were executed by firing squad, a Daily NK source in Yanggang Province has reported.

A woman who killed her young son and daughter before attempting suicide earlier this year was sentenced to death by the New Taipei District Court on 25 November 2020, for a crime described by the court as "extremely cruel and cold-blooded."

IRAN - Kylie Moore-Gilbert freed in a swap for three Iranians jailed in Thailand.

Three al-Shabaab lieutenants were on 29 November 2020 morning executed by firing squad ordered by a military court-martial.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered at least two people executed, banned fishing at sea and locked down the capital, Pyongyang.

USA - The Trump administration is trying to bring back firing squads and electrocutions

USA - Oklahoma. Kim Kardashian visits death row inmate Julius Jones.

Somaliland security forces on 26 November 2020 executed six inmates by firing squad after being convicted of committed deliberate killings.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two men to death for the killing of a 24-year-old woman earlier this year in Cairo’s Maadi, Egyptian Streets reported on 26 November 2020.

Five Vietnamese men on 27 November 2020 were sentenced to death for illicitly selling and transporting drugs.

Wang Shujin, a man from Hebei province, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide by the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Hebei on 24 November 2020 after a retrial.

A Shariatpur tribunal has sentenced three people to death for the 2019 murder of a housewife after gang-rape in Damudya Upazila.