A 61-year-old man on 2 November 2020 was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in Singapore for trafficking in at least 78.77g of heroin, almost three decades after escaping the hangman’s noose for killing a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer.

A man, who lived with two wives, was sentenced to death on 29 October 2020 after he beat his second wife to death over dowry in Bogra in 2016.

According to semi-official news website Javan Online, a prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder was executed in recent days in Rajai Shahr Prison, IHR reported on 29 October 2020.

IRAN - HRANA: Death Penalty Report, 256 executions in 12 months

A condemned convict was hanged on 1st November 2020 night at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur for killing his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter in 2006.

A court in Qinghai province sentenced a leader of a mafia-style gang to death on 30 October 2020 for more than 10 crimes, including intentional homicide, and handed 38 other gang members prison terms ranging from two years to life.

IRAN - Still on the 4 executions carried out in Urmia on 29 October.

The Supreme Court on 2 November 2020 commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to a Maharashtra man convicted of raping and killing a 2-year-old infant in 2013.

A Khulna court on 29 October 2020 sentenced three people to death for killing a van puller in Khulna.

A court in Attock, Pakistan, on 29 October 2020 awarded death sentence to a man for his involvement in a murder case in Rangoo Police station of Attock besides imposing fine worth Rs0.620 million.

Calling California capital sentencing proceedings “infected by racism,” Governor Gavin Newsom has filed a brief in the California Supreme Court supporting a death-row prisoner’s claim that capital punishment as currently practiced in the state violates the California penal code and the state constitution.

IRAN - Four Prisoners Hanged at Orumiyeh Central Prison (Urmia).