A federal judge on 20 May 2020 ordered prosecutors to either bring new proceedings against a Texas death row inmate or release him from prison.

North Korean authorities earlier this month executed a husband and wife for attempting to flee the country during the COVID-19 national emergency quarantine, sources in the country told RFA.

Qatar has executed a Nepali migrant worker named Anil Chaudhary from Mahottari district, The Himalayan Times reported on 21 May 2020.

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man ever convicted in a U.S. court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks, now says he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and the Islamic State.

An appeal court in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City has handed down the capital punishment to seven drug traffickers for smuggling nearly 400 heroin cakes from Laos to the country, local media reported on 22 May 2020.

The family of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi announced on 22 May 2020 they have forgiven his Saudi killers, giving legal reprieve to the five government agents who'd been sentenced to death for an operation that cast a cloud of suspicion over the kingdom's crown prince.

A court in Uttar Pradesh on 21 May 2020 awarded death sentence to a person in connection with the murder of six members of a family seven years ago over a property dispute.

Iran has sentenced French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah to six years in prison on national security charges, her lawyer said on 16 May 2020.

A Hanoi court sentenced two men to death and a woman to life in prison on 20 May 2020 for drug trafficking.

Oregon Department of Corrections officials said on 15 May 2020 the agency will eliminate the state’s death row area of incarceration.

The High Court’s Tainan branch on 15 May 2020 overturned a death sentence on rape and murder charges against Hsieh Chih-hung based on new findings from the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office after it restarted the investigation.

Walter Barton, 64, White, was put to death on 19 May 2020 for fatally stabbing Gladys Kuehler, an 81-year-old woman, on 9 October 1991, the first U.S. execution since the coronavirus pandemic took hold.