The Justice Ministry on 21 October 2020 introduced a system in which the executions of death row inmates are reported to victims of criminal cases via document or phone if they wish.

Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) has reiterated that juvenile offenders will not face the death penalty in kingdom, Gulf News reported on 22 October 2020.

The Court of Appeal of Singapore on 16 October 2020 dismissed an application by a drug trafficker on death row for a review of his case, reminding defence counsels not to invoke the review process lightly and without reasonable basis or they will face sanctions for abusing court processes.

IRAN - Christian convert Mohammad Reza Omidi lashed 80 times for drinking communion wine.

IRAN - Shahram Takhsha has been executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on October 21.

USA - Wyoming. Christal Martin, Who Lost Mother and Husband in Separate Murders, Calls on Wyoming to Repeal Death Penalty.

USA - Reuters study suggests over 3,000 deaths a year in US prisons.

The 2020–2021 U.S. Supreme Court term opened on October 5 with the Court declining to review challenges to more than 30 death-penalty court decisions.

A Jorhat court on 21 October 2020 handed death penalty to an accused and life terms to 24 others convicted in the Dr Deben Dutta lynching case of 2019.

The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) no. III, Rawalpindi Judge Raja Pervez Akhtar on 20 October 2020 awarded two times death sentence to each accused involved in kidnapping of 14-years old girl, student of class 8.

A 38-year-old Malaysian man escaped the noose when he was acquitted by the Court of Appeal on 13 October 2020 of a charge of being a drug courier.

The Gaza Court of First Instance on the evening of 18 October 2020 issued death sentences against three citizens by hanging.