The Osun House of Assembly on 10 March 2020 passed a bill seeking death sentence for convicted kidnappers in the state.

A military tribunal in Somalia sentenced a military officer to death on 15 March 2020 for killing a civilian outside Somali capital, Mogadishu.

A court in Japan on 16 March 2020 sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of 19 people at a care center for disabled people.

Four members of banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were sentenced to death on 15 March 2020 for killing a Hindu priest in Panchagarh in 2016.

An FCT High Court sitting in Nyanya, Nasarawa State, on 11 March 2020 sentenced Mohammed Tijani to death by hanging for killing a man who was fighting another in front of his barbershop.

Hossein Kachanloo and Abdullah Mohammadzadeh were hanged on 12 March 2020 at the central prison of Urmia, West Azerbaijan province.

A Kabul appeals court on 8 March 2020 sentenced four men to death for the kidnapping and killing an eleven-year-old boy.

Carrying 162 kg of drugs, six smugglers were awarded capital punishment in the northern Cao Bang Province on 9 March 2020.

Four Egyptians who were arrested as teenagers escaped the death penalty on 9 March 2020 after a court in Cairo acquitted them of all their charges, rights group Reprieve confirmed.

The Criminal Session of the High Court of Sierra Leone held in Port Loko presided by the Justice Samuel O. Taylor has sentenced three convicted persons to death by hanging and one given 40 years imprisonment, theorganiser.net reported on 9 March 2020.

A Tay Ninh Province court on 9 March 2020 sentenced an Indonesian woman to death for trafficking 6.7 kg of methamphetamine over the border from Cambodia.

Sudan plans to decriminalise apostasy this year, a member of a key political group involved in the country's transitional government said.