USA - United Nations. U.S. Death Penalty Criticized by U.N. Human Rights Council.

IRAN - Nasrin Sotoudeh has tested positive for the coronavirus

The Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was introduced in parliament on 7 November 2020, stipulating the death penalty as the maximum punishment in rape cases.

The Deir al-Balah Court of First Instance on 5 November 2020 sentenced to death by hanging (A/A) for intentional murder, the Human Rights and Democracy Media Center "SHAMS” reported.

The public flogging sentences for two young men were carried out on 8 November 2020 in the city of Golbahar, in northeast Iran.

IRAN - Unidentified man executed on November 7 at Mashhad Central Prison.

Joe Biden has promised to end private prisons, cash bail, minimum mandatory sentences, the death penalty, and reduce the prison population by more than half.

So-called "honor crimes" will now be punishable like any other crimes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the Gulf state announced a sweeping overhaul of its Islamic legal code on 7 November 2020.

A Lucknow court on 6 November 2020 sentenced a man to death for killing his brother, sister-in-law and their two children two and a half years ago.

According to Iran Human Rights, that published the piece of news on 8 November 2020, a male prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder was executed at Rasht Central Prison on the morning of 1st November 2020.

A 44-year-old man, Rafiu Saheed was on 5 November 2020 sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery and attempted murder in Osun State.

Former Miss Langata Women Prison beauty queen Ruth Kamande who was convicted of murder for stabbing her boyfriend twenty-two times at Buruburu estate in 2015 will remain behind bars after the Court of Appeal on 6 November 2020 upheld her death sentence.