An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on 24 November 2020 sentenced two persons, Adekunle Osho, 31, and Chinedu Ugwu, 34, to death by hanging for armed robbery.

IRAN - Appeal against the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, a scientist who also worked in Italy.

A court in Rawalpindi on 23 November 2020 awarded death penalty to convict Qari Abdul Hai for sodomizing and murdering a seven-year-old boy in a village of Fateh Jhang.

The Peshawar High Court on 19 November 2020 commuted the death sentence of the man convicted for the 2017 lynching of university student Mashal Khan, converting it to life imprisonment.

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on 18 November 2020 sent seven draft resolutions to the General Assembly, five of which were focused on country-specific situations and subject to heated debate.

Only hours before the 54-year-old Norwegian citizen Saad Jidre sentenced to death was to be executed in Somaliland, he was informed that it had been postponed.

USA - 1,450 inmates and 98 agents died of Covid-19 in US prisons.

The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal submitted by the Kuwaiti citizen “Abdulaziz U.” who was accused of killing the policeman Turki Al-Anzi by running into him at the Dasman roundabout during the National Day celebrations in 2016, Al-Anba daily reported on 21 November 2020.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on 21 November 2020 sentenced a Sindh police officer to death in a case pertaining to the killing of a citizen in a dubious encounter in 2018.

Offenders convicted of child abduction in Algeria could be sentenced to death under a new bill approved by the National Assembly, MEMO reported on 19 November 2020.

A high court in Adamawa State sentenced a man to death for killing his son, the Daily Post reported on 19 November 2020.

Orlando Hall was executed on 19 November 2020 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.