The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), Major General Prince C. Johnson, on 11 July 2020 called for the introduction of a law seeking death penalty for rapists in the country, as rape and other sexual violence abuses against women and girls continue to escalate in Liberia.

The association Hands Off Cain - Spes contra spem thus commented on the news of the resumption of federal executions in America.

After the Supreme Court of the United States stepped in, Daniel Lewis Lee was executed on July 14, 2020 morning by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

According to Iran Human Rights, a prisoner was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison on the morning of 12 July 2020.

Death row inmates will soon be required to wear a hood when they are being executed to make the job of the executioner less traumatic, according to new rules announced by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) that will take effect on 15 July 2020.

According to the HRANA news agency, a man was executed in Gorgan Central Prison on the morning of 9 July 2020. The identity of the prisoner has been established as Baset Seyedi, 43, from Bandar Torkaman.

USA - U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (District of Columbia) again halted federal executions

A Chinese man who stabbed to death two people at a coronavirus travel checkpoint in the southwest of the country was executed on 9 July 2020, the Supreme People’s Court said.

USA - European Union. EU condemns U.S. for resuming federal executions.

Bahrain's Court of Cassation on 13 July 2020 upheld death sentences against two activists for bombing a convoy and killing a police officer, after convictions that human rights groups say were based on confessions extracted through torture.

USA - The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeal overturned the decision to suspend the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee.

USA - Federal Jane E. Magnus-Stinson Orders Delay of federal execution of Daniel Lewis Lee.