A Hanoi court sentenced two men to death and a woman to life in prison on 20 May 2020 for drug trafficking.

Oregon Department of Corrections officials said on 15 May 2020 the agency will eliminate the state’s death row area of incarceration.

The High Court’s Tainan branch on 15 May 2020 overturned a death sentence on rape and murder charges against Hsieh Chih-hung based on new findings from the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office after it restarted the investigation.

Walter Barton, 64, White, was put to death on 19 May 2020 for fatally stabbing Gladys Kuehler, an 81-year-old woman, on 9 October 1991, the first U.S. execution since the coronavirus pandemic took hold.

Singapore was criticised for being "cruel and inhumane" on 20 May 2020 after a death sentence was handed down via video-conferencing platform Zoom.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi sentenced to death on 18 May 2020 two convicts for their involvement in the 2017 Sehwan Sharif bomb blast.

The Putrajaya Federal Court on 19 May 2020 upheld the death sentence of two men for the murder of an unemployed man in Butterworth, Penang six years ago.

After 43 years in prison — more than 25 years of that on death row — Johnny Lee Gates walked out of custody on 15 May 2020 a free man.

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A Malaysian debt collector, who was implicated by two drug couriers as the mastermind behind a heroin transaction, was sentenced to hang in Singapore on 15 May 2020.

The Nakhon Sawan provincial court on 12 May 2020 sentenced the owner of a private military cadet school to death while his wife and mother-in-law were sentenced to life imprisonment for the fatal disciplinary beating of a 15-year-old student.