The governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state has signed a law saying men convicted of rape will face surgical castration, and anyone raping a child under age 14 will face the death penalty, AP reported on 17 September 2020.

A Pakistani court on 22 September 2020 handed death sentences to two accused and life imprisonment to four others in a 2012 factory fire case, court records and lawyers said.

The Court of Appeal has condemned a man of Solwezi to death for killing his wife whom he allegedly found in their bed committing adultery with another man, the Daily Mail reported on 21 September 2020.

Two people were sentenced to death by a Natore court on 21 September 2020 for killing freedom fighter Dr Aynal Haque, also a former president of the Baraigram upazila unit Awami League in Natore.

The Sessions Court in Sahiwal on 21 September 2020 handed down a major verdict in the rape and murder case.

A court in the north-central province of Ha Tinh sentenced a drug mule to death on 18 September 2020.

The High Court in Dar es Salaam on 18 September 2020 ordered five people to be hanged to death for killing former prominent lawyer and politician, Dr Edmund Sengondo Mvungi.

The military court martial in Juba on 18 September 2020 sentenced to death a police officer and a soldier accused of killing a lecturer early this year.

A model court in Karachi sentenced on 16 September 2020 a man to death in the infamous blue car robbery-murder case.

The court of Sanaa province ruled on 15 September 2020 to execute the accused of killing two of his brothers, Mohammed al-Kuhali.

North Korea on 20 July 2020 publicly executed six people, including four party officials, for their involvement in a prostitution ring that sold sex with female students of prestigious performing arts universities, sources in the country told RFA.

A Vietnamese court on 24 August 2020 sentenced a Malaysian woman to death for transporting 3.3 kg of cocaine from Brazil to Vietnam.