The Syrian Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) executed a 19-year-old man deported from Turkey who they say was charged with "blasphemy", however, activists claim the young man was killed over phone messages criticising the group’s leader, The New Arab reported on 23 April 2020.

An Iraqi lawmaker criticized President Barham Salih for not approving the execution sentences of the ISIL terrorists imprisoned in Iraq, Mehr News Agency reported on 4 May 2020.

A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced a husband and wife who are among Iranian lifestyle and sports Instagram influencers to a total of 16 years in prison, 74 lashes and a cash fine.

It has been exactly one year since 37 people were executed on a single day in Saudi Arabia, and none of the bodies are known to have been returned to their families, according to human rights activists, ABC News reported on 23 April 2020.

According to Iran Human Rights sources, Vahed Rostamzadeh who was sentenced to death on “drug” charges, was executed in Hamadan Central Prison on 30 April 2020.

A boy was executed by firing squad in a detention center by Islamist group Hay'at Tahrir al Sham for belonging to Syrian Democratic Forces, the young man's family said on 29 April 2020.

An Egyptian engineer who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia in 2017 on charges of smuggling drugs to the Kingdom was acquitted of charges, his brother told Egypt Today on 26 April 2020, saying the ruling is almost final.

Sierra Leone High Court Justice Monfred Sesay on 22 April 2020 sentenced five members of a clique group named Members of Blood (MoB) also known as the Red Flag Movement, to death by hanging.

Al-Shabaab on 28 April 2020 publicly executed in Galgadud region three men for alleged espionage activities.

Hands Off Cain, faced with the news of the detention of Turkish lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytac Uysal, on hunger strike for 116 and 84 days respectively, expresses its solidarity with the two human rights defenders and asks for their immediate release, together with that of other political prisoners, inviting to desist from forms of hunger strike to the bitter end that can end with death.

The royal order staying the execution of minors who received final death sentences covers all individuals who were under the age of 18 at the time of committing the crime, including those sentenced to death on terrorism charges, Saudi Human Rights Commission confirmed in a statement.

Three prisoners were hanged in Iran on 28 April 2020.