IRAN - Abdulhamid Mir-Balouchzehi hanged on December 26 in the Prison of Zahedan.

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa on 17 December 2020 sentenced a 29-year-old mechanic, Sola Emorua, to death by hanging for armed robbery.

USA - Federal. Stay of Lisa Montgomery’s execution.

A Rawalpindi criminal trial court for gender-based violence sentenced on 19 December 2020 Muhammad Ayub to death for raping a 12-year-old differently-abled girl, ARY News reported.

2,553 death row prisoners.

Japan’s highest court has upheld a ruling granting a retrial to a man described as the world’s longest-serving death row inmate.

Al Shabaab militants in Lower Shabelle on 22 December 2020 publicly executed by firing squad a man for murder.

USA - Pennsylvania. Former Death-Row Prisoner Roderick Johnson is Freed.

Cairo’s Criminal Court referred the death sentences of three individuals found guilty for the death of a child to Grand Mufti Shawky Allam for approval on 22 December 2020.

Al Shabab militants in Somalia on 22 December 2020 publicly cut off the right hands of a man after a sharia court convicted him of breaking into a shop and stealing about a 26,000 Somali shilling.

The Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan decided that there was no need to amend the Constitution for the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty.