A 27-year-old man who was originally handed the death penalty in Singapore for driving his friend to pick up drugs, escaped the gallows on 23 April 2020 after he was cleared by the Court of Appeal.

Majid Esmaeilzadeh was hanged on the morning of 18 April 2020 at the central prison of Ardabil.

Amnesty International recorded 657 executions in 20 countries in 2019, a decrease of 5% compared to 2018 (at least 690). This is the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in at least a decade.

Juvenile offender Shayan Saeedpour was hanged on 21 April 2020 at the prison of Saqqez city, Kurdistan province.

The association Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem defends the decisions of the Surveillance Court of Milan on the granting of the postponement of the sentence for very serious health reasons in cases of prisoners under the 41 bis regime.

The 2019 report of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) has recommended that the government abolishes the death penalty and carries out impartial and urgent investigations regarding the death cases in “zones deprived from freedom.”

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on 17 December 2019 convicted Sohail Shahzad for kidnapping, raping and murdering a minor boy in Chunian and handed him the death sentences on three counts.

One week after Taiwan saw its second execution during the tenure of President Tsai Ing-wen, a coalition of NGOs, lawyers, and academics sent her a petition for a presidential pardon for another inmate — Chiou Ho-shun, who over three decades ago was sentenced to death on the basis of confessions extracted through torture during police interrogations, Taiwan News reported on 18 April 2020.

54 personalities from 14 countries are asking the European institutions to promote the amnesty to face the Covid 19 pandemic in prisons.

The Sindh High Court on 20 April 2020 turned down a petition filed by two men, including a former sessions court judge, who wanted their death sentences suspended in a murder case.

According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), a man was hanged on 15 April 2020 at Alvand, the central prison of Hamadan city.

Myanmar began releasing tens of thousands of inmates on 17 April 2020 after President Win Myint announced an amnesty on the first day of the traditional New Year.