A court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on 8 September 2020 handed down the death penalty to a man over a kindergarten knife attack.

The Court of First Instance in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on 18 August 2020 sentenced a 31-year-old man from Rafah to death by hanging after he was convicted of murder in the death of 22-year-old Mahmoud Bashar Ibrahim Al-Hamayda.

North Korea on 30 July 2020 executed five government officials after they spoke out against the regime's economic policies, it has been reported.

Navid Afkari was executed on 12 September 2020 at Adelabad prison, in Shiraz.

IRAN - Navid Afkari was executed on September 12, in Adelabad prison, in Shiraz.

A drug dealer on 21 August 2020 was sentenced to death by hanging by the High Court in Kuching on the charge of trafficking 211.95 grams of syabu, or methamphetamine two years ago.

IRAN - Khezr Ghavidel was executed in Urmia Central Prison on September 10.

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A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on 8 September 2020 sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed "blasphemy", his lawyer said.

A Saudi court on 9 September 2020 sentenced two militants to death on charges of involvement in a 2014 attack on a Shiite gathering and links to the terrorist Daesh group, the news portal Sabq reported.

Killers of an Edinburgh millionaire and his Thai wife have had their death sentences overturned, news media reported on 7 September 2020.

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has convicted and sentenced five persons to death by hanging for the murder of a staff member of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Anthony Okoro, The Nation reported on 9 September 2020.