The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on 18 November 2020 sent seven draft resolutions to the General Assembly, five of which were focused on country-specific situations and subject to heated debate.

Only hours before the 54-year-old Norwegian citizen Saad Jidre sentenced to death was to be executed in Somaliland, he was informed that it had been postponed.

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The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal submitted by the Kuwaiti citizen “Abdulaziz U.” who was accused of killing the policeman Turki Al-Anzi by running into him at the Dasman roundabout during the National Day celebrations in 2016, Al-Anba daily reported on 21 November 2020.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on 21 November 2020 sentenced a Sindh police officer to death in a case pertaining to the killing of a citizen in a dubious encounter in 2018.

Offenders convicted of child abduction in Algeria could be sentenced to death under a new bill approved by the National Assembly, MEMO reported on 19 November 2020.

A high court in Adamawa State sentenced a man to death for killing his son, the Daily Post reported on 19 November 2020.

Orlando Hall was executed on 19 November 2020 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

A Rawalpindi trial court on 18 November 2020 sentenced ‘habitual’ paedophile Sohail Ayaz to death on three counts apart from awarding him three sentences of rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping young boys and for recording and disseminating the heinous acts.

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South Korea's Justice Ministry said on 18 November 2020 that the country has voted in favor of a UN resolution calling for the suspension of the death penalty.

The Court of Cassation has upheld a June Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after convicting him of murdering and robbing his 60-year-old father in Amman in January 2017, Jordan Times reported on 18 November 2020.