IRAN - 30,000 Underage Girls Forcibly Marry Every Year.

IRAN - A man, identified only as Ali, was executed at Vakilabad Prison on October 11.

According to Iran Human Rights, four male prisoners were executed in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on 13 October 2020.

USA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to 1 July 2020.

Khulna court on 12 October 2020 sentenced three people including husband to death for killing a woman at Badurgaccha village in Dumuria upazila in 2016.

The Zambian government should completely remove the death penalty from its statute books so that the country joins other countries that have abolished it, the country's human rights body said on 13 October 2020.

A judge in South Sudan's Jonglei state on 13 October 2020 sentenced two men to death for stealing two cows and killing the man who owned the animals.

IRAN - Iran must halt execution of Barzan Nasrollahzadeh, a Kurdish arrested as juvenile.

IRAN - A woman, identified only as Razieh, executed on October 11 in the prison of Mashhad.

Bangladesh President Md Abdul Hamid on 13 October 2020 signed an ordinance approving the death penalty for rapists, amid nationwide protests after a series of recent sexual assaults in the country.

A military court in Kismayo, Somalia, on 13 October 2020 sentenced to death one of the attackers in the July 2019 bombing at a hotel in the coastal city that left 26 people dead and injured 50 others.

A Filipino woman in southern Tay Ninh Province was sentenced to death on 9 October 2020 for smuggling about 5 kg of drugs.