USA - Utah. Utah has gone more than a decade without carrying out an execution.
Two prisoners were hanged at Mashhad prison (Vakilabad) on 9 June 2020.
The People’s Court of Điện Biên on 17 June 2020 rejected letters of appeal and decided to uphold the death sentence for six defendants for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 22-year-old woman.
IRAN - Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi suffers for witnessing execution.
Dewage Thusitha Chamara alias ‘Kudu Thilan’ who was found guilty for possessing and peddling over 270 grams of heroin, was on 18 June 2020 sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.
IRAN - Ali Arjangi, who was under 18 at the time of the crime, may be executed shortly.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on 16 June 2020 expressed his concern about the death sentences issued against journalists by a Houthi court in Sanaa.
The Bahraini Cassation Court upheld on 15 June 2020 death sentences against political detainees Zuheir Ibrahim Jassim and Hussein Abdullah Rashid.
The Supreme Court on 15 June 2020 refused to award death penalty to a convict, who committed rape and murder of a nine-year-old child last year in Telangana.
Death row inmate Ho Duy Hai’s sentence for murder was re-affirmed by Vietnam’s top court in a meeting on 15 June 2020 of the National Assembly, state media reported.
Australia’s prime minister said on 16 June 2020 that his government is “very sad and concerned” by China’s sentencing of an Australian man to death for drug trafficking.
USA - 4 federal executions scheduled in July and August. These executions are unlikely to occur.
