Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019, the most in a calendar year in six years, human rights organisation Reprieve has said, calling it a "grim milestone" for the kingdom.

The Supreme Court on 14 January 2020 upheld the death sentence of Jatiya Party leader Syed Mohammad Qaisar for his crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Liberation War of the country in 1971.

A Pakistani court on 13 January 2020 overturned the death sentence given to the country's ex-military ruler, Pervez Musharraf.

A special POCSO court in Bareilly, in the indian State of Uttar Pradesh, on 9 January 2020 sentenced to death the two accused of rape and murder of a minor in January 2016.

The death penalty for Du Shaoping, who was convicted of killing a man and then burying him under a school sports ground, was upheld by the Hunan High People’s Court on 10 January 2020.

The Mogilev Regional Court sentenced two brothers, who were found guilty of committing a murder in a particularly violent manner, to the death penalty on 10 January 2020, the Human Rights Center Viasna said.

A military court of appeal in Puntland on 6 January 2020 upheld the ruling of a lower court which sentenced to death a military officer who killed his boss at Bosaso port but ordered the government compensate the defendant for injuries suffered during his arrest.

An Iranian court on 29 December 2019 sentenced Kurd Political Prisoner Houshmand Alipour to death.

The Iranian Resistance on 15 December 2019 announced that the number of those killed by security forces during Iran protests exceeded 1,500.

Four of the 6 Masaka machete- wielding men have been sentenced to death by General Court Martial sitting in Makidye, The Tower Post reported on 16 December 2019.

The Criminal Court in Songkhla has sentenced six people, including the Muang Singha Nakhon municipal mayor, to death and another to life imprisonment for the murder of a municipal director in July last year, reported the Bangkok Post on 24 December 2019.

Four men sentenced to death for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shockwaves across the world will be hanged on 22 January in Tihar Jail in the national Capital, an Indian court ruled on 7 January 2020.