An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on 21 November 2020 sentenced a Sindh police officer to death in a case pertaining to the killing of a citizen in a dubious encounter in 2018.

Offenders convicted of child abduction in Algeria could be sentenced to death under a new bill approved by the National Assembly, MEMO reported on 19 November 2020.

A high court in Adamawa State sentenced a man to death for killing his son, the Daily Post reported on 19 November 2020.

Orlando Hall was executed on 19 November 2020 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

A Rawalpindi trial court on 18 November 2020 sentenced ‘habitual’ paedophile Sohail Ayaz to death on three counts apart from awarding him three sentences of rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping young boys and for recording and disseminating the heinous acts.

USA - Judge Delays Federal Execution Of Lisa Montgomery

South Korea's Justice Ministry said on 18 November 2020 that the country has voted in favor of a UN resolution calling for the suspension of the death penalty.

The Court of Cassation has upheld a June Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after convicting him of murdering and robbing his 60-year-old father in Amman in January 2017, Jordan Times reported on 18 November 2020.

Norwegian citizen Saad Jidre on 18 November 2020 was sentenced to death in Hargeisa District Court in the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland.

IRAN - Zaman Fadaii was lashed 80 times for drinking communion wine

IRAN - Ghassem Gh. Executed in Mashhad Prison on November 18.

An overwhelming majority of states continued to support a UN call to halt executions on 17 November 2020, when the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) considered a draft resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.