According to Iran Human Rights, that published the piece of news on 8 November 2020, a male prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder was executed at Rasht Central Prison on the morning of 1st November 2020.

A 44-year-old man, Rafiu Saheed was on 5 November 2020 sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery and attempted murder in Osun State.

Former Miss Langata Women Prison beauty queen Ruth Kamande who was convicted of murder for stabbing her boyfriend twenty-two times at Buruburu estate in 2015 will remain behind bars after the Court of Appeal on 6 November 2020 upheld her death sentence.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer jailed on spying and propaganda charges, has been temporarily released from prison.

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A Chinese court sentenced on 6 November 2020 the former chairman of Hengfeng Bank, Cai Guohua, to death with two-year reprieve after convicting him of abuse of power, corruption, embezzlement, receiving bribes and illegal loans, the court said.

Merowe Criminal Court on 2 November 2020 sentenced Awad Adam Hussein to death by hanging for raping and killing the four-year girl child, Areej Samir, at Al-Gorair area, Merowe Locality.

A court in the semi-autonomous Somalia state of Puntland has sentenced two men to death for the rape and killing of a 14-year old girl, Somali Affairs reported on 4 November 2020.

A nurse in China on 30 October 2020 was sentenced to death for serious theft and intentional homicide.

The driver and two other staff of a Hanif Paribahan bus on 1st November 2020 were sentenced to death for killing North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel.