A Cairo criminal court on 1st February 2020 handed preliminary death sentences to leading terrorist Hisham Ashmawy and 36 others in the case known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, convicting them of executing over 50 assassination attacks on policemen.

Hours before he was to be executed, Jimmy Fletcher Meders was granted clemency — largely because of what the jurors said when they were contacted 30 years after the trial.

Three men, Nuhu Jimoh, Ndubisi David and Aderibigbe Oluwaseun, arrested for armed robbery, were sentenced to death by hanging on 30 January 2020 by an Osun State High Court.

A defendant, who is charged with killing seven members of the same family and setting their house on fire in Kafr el-Dawar city in Beheira govenorate, was sentenced to death on 30 January 2020.

The Council of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus has decided to establish a working group on studying abolition of death penalty at the National Assembly.

An Indonesian court has sentenced to death an inmate for running a drug-trafficking operation from behind bars.

A criminal court in the United Arab Emirates ordered on 26 January 2020 the execution of a convict in the 2018 death of 2 Emirati youths who died a sword fight.

Three people who bludgeoned another to death with a hammer and a brick on 28 January 2020 were condemned to death in Bahrain.

An Egyption court handed preliminary death sentences on 27 January 2020 to three defendants over a failed assassination of Alexandria’s security director in March 2018.

Seven people were sentenced to death on 27 January 2020 by a court in Nyala, South Darfur, after being found guilty of killing nine people in September 2017, in the area of Tobasi, 43km south of Nyala.

A 23-year-old man in Haryana was on 27 January 2020 sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl.

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on 27 January 2020 sentenced to death Maryam Sanda for the killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello.