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FEBRUARY 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Naderi and an unknows female executed in Ardabil Prison on February 8
The woman, 23, may have been a juvenile offender
FEBRUARY 8, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Harris County DA Seeks to Vacate Sentence for Raymond Riles
Nation’s Longest-Serving Death-Row Prisoner
- FEBRUARY 6, 2021DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
ELISABETTA ZAMPARUTTI HAS BEEN ELECTED TO THE CPT FOR A SECOND TERM
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe elected me to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) as a member on behalf of Italy.
FEBRUARY 6, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SERIAL KILLER AND RAPIST EXECUTED IN HEBEI
High-profile serial killer Wang Shujin, 53, was executed in Hebei province on 2 February 2021 after his death sentence for rape and intentional killing was approved by the Supreme People's Court.
FEBRUARY 5, 2021VirginiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Virginia. After Senate, House voted to abolish death penalty
Governor is expected to sign
FEBRUARY 4, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR BEIJING HOSPITAL KNIFE ATTACK
A Beijing court on 2 February 2021 handed a death sentence with a two-year reprieve to a man who injured four people with a knife at a hospital in the city.
FEBRUARY 4, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY
An Abeokuta High Court on 3 February 2021 sentenced a 33-year-old man, Ibrahim Toyin, to death by hanging for robbing a woman of her handbag at gunpoint.
- FEBRUARY 4, 2021South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
USA - South Carolina. State Supreme Court delays execution of Brad Sigmon
No lethal drugs
- FEBRUARY 3, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Nearly 1 Million Dollar for Each Federal Execution
financial records recently obtained by the ACLU
FEBRUARY 3, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR GIRL
A Shariatpur court on 3 February 2021 sentenced two people to death for killing a minor girl after rape at Sakhipur village under Bhedarganj upazila, three years back.
FEBRUARY 3, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR ABDUCTING AND RAPING A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
The Qinzhou Intermediate People's Court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on 2 February 2021 carried out the execution of Yang Guangyi, who raped a 10-year-old girl.
FEBRUARY 3, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT ORDERS MAN ACQUITTED IN PEARL MURDER OFF DEATH ROW
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on 2 February 2021 ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called government “safe house.”