A court in Maharashtra's Parbhani district on 18 February 2020 awarded death sentence to a man for raping and killing a five year-old girl, observing the crime was 'more cruel' than the act of the most dreaded animal.

The Colorado legislature has sent to the Governor a bill that would prospectively abolish the state’s death penalty.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Pakistan on 14 February 2020 sentenced to death three people, in two different cases.

Two Thai women convicted of smuggling methamphetamine into Bali on 26 February 2020 escaped a possible death sentence on the Indonesian holiday island after a court sentenced them to 16 years in jail.

An Asian national was sentenced to death by the Ras Al Khaimah Criminal Court after it found him guilty of sexually abusing his minor daughter, MENAFN reported on 27 February 2020.

A 31-year-old Vietnamese woman on 25 February 2020 was sentenced to death for trafficking nearly 8 kg of methamphetamine, Vietnam News Agency reported.

A Saudi citizen was sentenced to death on 24 February 2020, with seven others facing years in jail on charges of treason and espionage on behalf of Iran, state television reported on 25 February.

Tangail Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-2 Judge Farhan Ferdous on 23 February 2020 sentenced four people to death over their involment in a murder.

Eight men were executed on 24 February 2020 in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020.

Tennessee executed by electrocution Nicholas Sutton on 20 February 2020, one day after Governor Bill Lee denied a petition for clemency that had been supported by 7 correctional officers, 5 jurors, and members of the victims’ families.

A Kano State High Court on 21 February 2020 sentenced one Rashida Saidu to death by hanging for killing her husband, Adamu Ali.

Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on 24 February 2020 awarded an accused six time death penalty and 74 years imprisonment.