The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) of Rawalpindi on 11 November 2020 awarded three times death sentence to an accused in murder of a traffic warden and a passerby.
USA - Federal. Lawyers for Lisa Montgomery Contract COVID-19 During Prison Visits, Seek Stay of Execution.
A court in Mali’s capital Bamako sentenced an Islamist militant leader and 14 other people to death on 13 November 2020 for jihadist activity in the south of the war-torn Sahel state.
A former property agent was sentenced to death on 12 November 2020 after he was found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife and their four-year-old daughter.
A court in Khulna on 9 November 2020 sentenced a man to death for killing a college student in 2012.
IRAN - Kurdish Political Prisoner Zeinab Jalalian Transferred to Jail Far Away From Family
From midnight on November 10, 2020, the President of Hands Off Cain Rita Bernardini has embarked on a hunger strike aimed at the Government and Parliament to address what is happening in prisons.
Ten men have been recently executed in Minya’s high-security Sharq al-Nil Prison, Youm7 reported on 9 November 2020.
An Ekiti State high court sitting in Ado Ekiti on 11 November 2020 sentenced two persons; Lanre Kayode, 34 and Olanrewaju Aremu, 35, to death by hanging for conspiracy and burglary.
USA - United Nations. U.S. Death Penalty Criticized by U.N. Human Rights Council.
IRAN - Nasrin Sotoudeh has tested positive for the coronavirus
The Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was introduced in parliament on 7 November 2020, stipulating the death penalty as the maximum punishment in rape cases.
