The United Nations on 21 March 2020 called on all nations to stop the use of capital punishment or put a moratorium on it, a day after four men convicted of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman were hanged in India.

The Ras Al Khaimah Criminal Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence earlier issued against an Asian father after he was found guilty of sexually abusing his minor daughter, Khaleej Times reported on 25 March 2020.

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced six persons to death for murder and attempted murder, Daily Post reported on 24 March 2020.

A man has been sentenced to death in the central Hunan province for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old girl whom he held captive in a hidden room under the floor of his home for over three weeks, domestic outlet Red Star News reported on 23 March 2020.

Colorado became the 22nd U.S. state to abolish the death penalty, and the tenth to do so in the past decade-and-a-half, as Governor Jared Polis signed legislation repealing the state’s capital punishment statute.

A smuggler in his 50s was recently executed in North Pyongan Province, sources told Daily NK earlier in March 2020.

An appeals court in Sana’a, Yemen, ruled on 22 March 2020 to uphold a religiously-motivated death sentence against Hamed bin Haydara, a Baha’i who has been imprisoned since 2013.

A young man who was arrested during the protests in November 2019 in Iran was sentenced to death.

Syrian President Bashar Assad granted amnesty and reduced sentences for all crimes committed before 22 March 2020, while also offering amnesty to military deserters who turn themselves in within the next few months.

A serial rapist from Bulawayo who raped and murdered a woman from Cowdray Park suburb who was coming from fetching firewood with her two neighbours was on 20 March 2020 sentenced to death.

The Spokesman of Iran’s Judiciary on 19 March 2020 said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will pardon about 10,000 prisoners “more than half of who are serving security-related jail terms”.

India hanged four men on 20 March 2020 who were convicted for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi in 2012, in a case that shocked the world and shamed the country over its appalling record for crimes against women.