USA - Military. Another judge steps away from stalled Guantanamo 9/11 trial.

The District and Sessions Court of Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, on 15 October 2020 awarded death penalty to two domestic helps for raping and killing a 12-year-old girl in September 2018.

USA - The Department of Justice released "Capital Punishment, 2018"

IRAN - Nabi Saberi-Lahijani has been executed at Sari Central Prison on October 4.

IRAN - 30,000 Underage Girls Forcibly Marry Every Year.

IRAN - A man, identified only as Ali, was executed at Vakilabad Prison on October 11.

According to Iran Human Rights, four male prisoners were executed in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on 13 October 2020.

USA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to 1 July 2020.

Khulna court on 12 October 2020 sentenced three people including husband to death for killing a woman at Badurgaccha village in Dumuria upazila in 2016.

The Zambian government should completely remove the death penalty from its statute books so that the country joins other countries that have abolished it, the country's human rights body said on 13 October 2020.

A judge in South Sudan's Jonglei state on 13 October 2020 sentenced two men to death for stealing two cows and killing the man who owned the animals.

IRAN - Iran must halt execution of Barzan Nasrollahzadeh, a Kurdish arrested as juvenile.