USA - Judge Delays Federal Execution Of Lisa Montgomery

South Korea's Justice Ministry said on 18 November 2020 that the country has voted in favor of a UN resolution calling for the suspension of the death penalty.

The Court of Cassation has upheld a June Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after convicting him of murdering and robbing his 60-year-old father in Amman in January 2017, Jordan Times reported on 18 November 2020.

Norwegian citizen Saad Jidre on 18 November 2020 was sentenced to death in Hargeisa District Court in the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland.

IRAN - Zaman Fadaii was lashed 80 times for drinking communion wine

IRAN - Ghassem Gh. Executed in Mashhad Prison on November 18.

An overwhelming majority of states continued to support a UN call to halt executions on 17 November 2020, when the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) considered a draft resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

UK - Professor Roger Hood, one of the founders of the international movement for the abolition of the death penalty, passed away.

USA - Bill Pelke, a pioneer of US abolitionism, and a friend of Hands Off Cain, died.

Professor Roger Hood passed away on 17 November 2020 after a short illness, aged 84.

According to reports received by the Human Rights Center of “No to prison, no to execution”, on 28 October 2020 a prisoner by the name of Ehsan Nemati was executed in Karaj Central Prison.

According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner’s death sentence for charges of “transporting and possessing drugs” was carried out in Taybad Prison on 15 November 2020.