The association "Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem", faced with the news of the first death of a prisoner linked to the coronavirus, which follows the equally tragic news of two prison officers who died in recent days, "asks the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic to pay close attention to the risk of a pandemic extended to prisons, which would have disastrous effects not only for prisoners and prison workers but also for the external community."

A death row inmate was executed on 1st April 2020 in Taiwan, less than a year after he was convicted of killing six people by setting fire to his home.

Twenty three death row inmates at Shimo La Tewa Maximum Security Prison in Kilifi County on 31 March 2020 evaded the hangman's noose.

Al-Shabaab on 31 March 2020 executed six men it said were spying for Somali intelligence agencies, the U.S. and Kenya, according to a broadcast on Radio Andalus, which supports the Islamist group that’s linked to al-Qaeda.

A court in Assam on 13 March 2020 sentenced one man to death and sentenced 11 others to life imprisonment for killing three members of a family in Majuli district on suspicion of practising witch-craft in 2012.

A judge in Mombasa has released 180 prisoners from Shimo La Tewa Maximum Prison to serve the remaining jail terms at home, The Standard reported on 25 March 2020.

Somaliland is due to release more than 800 prisoners on temporary basis in an effort to combat the spread of the new Coronavirus disease in the country’s crowded jails, The Somaliland Standard reported on 28 March 2020.

A court in Rajkot in Gujarat on 17 March 2020 sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in February 2018.

The death sentence for a man who admitted to the 2016 mass murder of 19 mentally impaired people at a care home near Tokyo was finalized on 31 March 2020 after he withdrew his appeal the previous day.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 27 March 2020 directed the freeing of 5,000 prisoners with immediate effect as he declared a 21-day coronavirus national lockdown.

A criminal court on 26 March 2020 sentenced five people to death, over damaging a petroleum pipeline and causing the death of nine people in November in northern Egypt.

Botswana on 28 March 2020 executed two men convicted of murder.