The Head of the Justice Department of Isfahan Province on 26 June 2020 said eight individuals have been sentenced for "corruption on earth", a charge carrying the death sentence according to Iran's Islamic Penal Code, the state-run Quds Online reported.

Taliban fighters have executed two young men for shaving their beards in the insecure province of Faryab in the northwest, officials in the province said.

VATICAN CITY - “The new Directory for Catechesis”, recalls that the death penalty is “inadmissible.”

IRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Cutting the Fingers of Four Inmates

Iran Human Rights News Agency (HRANA) on 24 June 2020 reported that the Supreme Court of Iran has upheld the death sentences of three young men who were arrested by security forces during the November 2019 protests.

A court in China on 24 June 2020 ordered two convicted drug dealers to be executed immediately during an open trial.

The Nigerian League of Women Voters in Niger State on 25 June 2020 called on the state government to come up with a law that will provide death penalty for rapists.

A 29-year-old man of Chambishi Township in Kalulushi district has been sentenced to death for killing his friend, the Daily Mail reported on 24 June 2020.

1,344 current prisoners on 26 state, federal, or U.S. military death rows have been incarcerated facing execution for more than 20 years, in violation of U.S. human rights obligations, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre.

Saudi Arabia's longest-serving prisoner was put to death on 23 June 2020, following a decades-long battle for a pardon from the family of his victim, which saw his impended execution delayed.

The seminar "Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Tunisia" begins in Tunis on 25 June 2020, which represents the final act of the project supported by the European Union aimed at containing the death penalty in times of "war on terrorism" in the country.

A man who raped and killed a female model in Taipei's Nangang District in 2017 avoided a death sentence in a second trial that concluded on 23 June 2020.