A local court in Warangal on 28 October 2020 awarded death penalty to a migrant worker after holding him guilty of killing nine persons and dumping them in a well near a gunny bags manufacturing unit in Gorrekunta village on 21 May.

According to Iran Human Rights, a prisoner was executed on 21 October 2020 morning in Sanandaj Central Prison.

The Intermediate People's Court of Xi'an on 27 October 2020 sentenced a man to death for murdering his girlfriend's two-year-old son.

A military court in the Puntland state of Somalia on 27 October 2020 sentenced two men with a death sentence and jailed one other to 20 years after being convicted of being a member Islamic State group (IS) and al-Shabaab group respectively.

The High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on 23 October 2020 rejected an appeal and upheld the death penalty against a 29-year-old woman for having illegally transported narcotics from Cambodia into Vietnam for 19 times.

The High Court in Juba, South Sudan, on 26 October 2020 sentenced Babu Emmanuel Lokiri, the accused in the murder of three juvenile sisters, to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murder.

An Anti-terrorism court (ATC) awarded on 22 October 2020 two death sentences to a man for killing a police official during a bank robbery attempt.

A military court in the Somali capital Mogadishu on 25 October 2020 sentenced to death by firing squad in absentia Idle Mubarak Ibrahim, an al-Shabaab militant, over the 12 August 2020 prison break at the Mogadishu Central Prison and the murder of two people.

A Moroccan court on 19 October 2020 sentenced to death Said Mansour for his involvement in the May 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca.

The Iraqi judiciary sentenced six people to death for their involvement in Al-Wathba Square incident that sparked widespread controversy in the country, Shafaq News reported on 21 October 2020.

Christian convert Mohammad Reza Omidi on 14 October 2020 was lashed 80 times for drinking communion wine. The sentence was carried out at the Prosecutor’s Office of Rasht.

A Wyoming woman whose mother and husband were murdered in separate incidents is calling on the state to repeal its death penalty for the benefit of victims’ family members.