This is a drop of 14 executions compared to 2019, and 44 compared to 2018, a drop of 4.7% and 13.4% respectively.

The Afghan Supreme Court has sentenced Mohammad Adil, the mastermind of the November 2020 Kabul University attack that claimed the lives of 22 people, to death.

IRAN - The United Nations condemns the execution of Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee.

A Kuwaiti citizen has been sentenced to death a year after killing her Filipina domestic worker.

Two Egyptian men were sentenced to death after they were found guilty of dragging a young woman to death following a drive-by theft, a Cairo Criminal Court ruled on 30 December 2020.

The upper house of Kazakhstan's parliament has ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which represents a formal commitment to abolish the death penalty, a Sputnik correspondent reported on 29 December 2020.

IRAN - Mustafa Seifi executed on December 30 in Sanandaj Central Prison.

A young man was on 29 December 2020 awarded double death sentence by a court in the district of Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, for the rape and murder of a seven-year old Dalit girl last year.

USA - Architects against the construction of torture sites and death chambers.

USA - Ohio. Romell Broom, who survived execution attempt, dies. COVID suspected.

There have been no executions of death row inmates in Japan throughout 2020, making it the first time in nine years where capital punishment was not carried out in the country.

The High People's Court in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region reheard the case of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl, reversing the second trial verdict and sentencing the perpetrator to death.