Five people were sentenced to death and two others acquitted on 8 March 2020 over the murder of Kazi Tasfin Hossain Toyon, 32, in Khalishpur area of Khulna city in 2018.

The Dubai Criminal Court on 7 March 2020 pronounced the death sentence on two Asians, who strangled their brother to death in an ‘honour killing.’

A High Court sitting in Kano State on 6 March 2020 sentenced one Yakubu Dalha to death by hanging for killing neighbour, Zakariyau Bala a.k.a Dangote during political argument.

A new death sentence was handed down in Belarus on 6 March 2020 after a panel of judges of the Minsk Regional Court found Viktar Skrundzik, a 29-year-old resident of a village in the Sluck district, Minsk region, guilty of murdering two elderly people

The Hands off Cain-Spes contra Spem association, which promoted a campaign to update the European list of members of the Iranian regime subject to restrictive measures for violation of human rights called "The faces of repression", welcomes the question with a request for a written answer that the Euro MPs Antonio Tajani and Massimiliano Salini, both from Forza Italia, addressed to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on this issue.

According to Iran Human Rights sources, death-row prisoner Amir Mohammadpour (Mahmoud Pour) was hanged on 1st March 2020 at Urmia Central Prison (also known as Darya prison).

Nathaniel Woods, 42, Black, was executed in Alabama on 5 March 2020.

An Iraqi court on 2nd March 2020 sentenced to death a former Islamic State militant who repeatedly raped a Yazidi captive.

The Houthi-controlled Specialized Criminal Court in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on 3 March 2020 sentenced 35 Yemeni pro-government deputies to death after charging them with cooperating with the Saudi-led Arab coalition.

Dhaka’s Third Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Jayashri Samaddar on 3 March 2020 sentenced two people to death for the killing of students Faria Akhter Dola, 7, and Nusrat Jahan, 5, in Demra in 2019.

Top Egyptian militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy was executed on 4 March 2020 following his conviction over several high-profile attacks, the country’s military spokesman said.

Iran has temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus disease in crowded jails.