Death penalty

USA - Florida. Paul Durousseau Re-Sentenced to Life in Prison

BANGLADESH: 20 STUDENTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

Bangladesh sentenced 20 university students to death on 8 December 2021 for the brutal 2019 murder of a young man who criticised the government on social media.

BANGLADESH: RAJSHAHI COURT SENTENCES 9 TO DEATH, 22 TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER OF CHHATRA LEAGUE LEADER

A Rajshahi court has sentenced nine people, including a former Rajshahi city councillor, to death and 22 others to life in prison for the murder of Chhatra League leader and apprentice lawyer Shahin Alam aka Shahin Shah.

USA - Oklahoma. Bigler Stouffer executed on December 9, 2021

The 11th inmate executed this year in the US

IRAN - Three (unidentified) women hanged in Kerman on December 9

The number of women executed in Iran since 2013 reaches 127.

IRAN - Ibrahim Sistani executed in Kerman Central Prison on December 9

Iran has executed more than 60 Baloch since the beginning of 2021

INDIA: CONVICT GETS DEATH PENALTY IN GUJARAT FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF TODDLER

Surat special court for Protection of Children for Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act awarded death penalty on 7 December 2021 to the convict Guddu Yadav (35) for rape and murder of a two-year-old minor girl in Pandesara area, in the indian State of Gujarat.

MALAYSIA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR

The High Court in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, on 7 December 2021 sentenced a man to death by hanging for killing his neighbour five years ago.

NIGERIA: MAN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR ROBBING, KILLING HIS OWN BROTHER

An Ado Ekiti High Court on 6 December 2021 sentenced 24-year-old Ebenezer Olorunleke to death by hanging for killing his own brother.

SINGAPORE: APEX COURT DISMISSES APPEAL BY MALAYSIAN DRUG MULE

Malaysian drug mule Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, 34, who was granted a stay of execution two years ago in Singapore, failed in his appeal on 26 November 2021 to start a court challenge against his death sentence.

EGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING HIS WIFE, SIX CHILDREN

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a man to death on 6 December 2021 for slaying his wife and six children at their home in a village in Fayoum governorate, southwest of Cairo, in May over accumulated debts.

IRAN - Ali Akbar Mohammadi executed in Neyshabour Prison on December 6

Maybe 18 at the time of crime

IRAN - Ahmad Tavakoli executed in Shiraz Prison on December 6

At least 110 prisoners executed on drug charges in Iranian prisons in 2021

IRAN - Mohmmadreza Mazkouhi executed in Zanjan on December 6

For drugs

SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI, EGYPTIAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER

Saudi authorities on 2 December 2021 executed two expatriates – a Pakistani and an Egyptian—convicted of fatally stabbing two compatriots in two different cases, the Interior Ministry said.

INDIA: MAN ESCAPES GALLOWS IN SODOMY OF BOY WHO LATER DIED

The Madras high court on 3 December 2021 commuted the death sentence awarded to a man to 30 years of imprisonment in a case where the man had sexually assaulted and caused the death of a 17-year-old mentally challenged boy in Pudukottai district in 2019.

IRAN - November 2019 Protester Abbas Daris Sentenced to Death

And Brother Mohsen to Life Imprisonment

NIGERIA: EVANS THE KIDNAPPER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING

Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans the kidnapper, was reportedly sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos High Court on 25 November 2021.

BANGLADESH: 13 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING SIX STUDENTS AT AMINBAZAR

A Dhaka court on 2 December 2021 awarded death sentence to 13 people and life imprisonment to 19 others on charges of killing six students at Aminbazar on the outskirts of capital Dhaka 10 years ago.

SINGAPORE: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF TWO INDIAN-ORIGIN MEN CONVICTED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING

Singapore’s highest court on 26 November 2021 upheld the death sentence of two Indian-origin men, who had been convicted of conspiring to traffic at least 1.34 kg of cannabis in March 2016, The Straits Times reported.

NIGERIA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING UNCLE OVER FATHER’S PROPERTY IN AKWA IBOM

Two men, Joseph Etim and Christopher Macaulay on 24 November 2021 were sentenced to death by hanging for killing their uncle, Imo Edet, over landed property in Akwa Ibom.

PAKISTAN: KP CABINET OKAYS DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD ABUSERS

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on 30 November 2021 approved the capital punishment for child abusers, which would be implemented after approval by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.

USA - Alabama. Micheal Dale Iervolino sentenced to death

MALAYSIA: BANGLADESHI STUDENT ESCAPES DEATH PENALTY FOR CANNABIS TRAFFICKING

Malaysia on 25 November 2021 set aside the death sentence handed down to a Bangladeshi engineering student for trafficking 3.8 kg of cannabis in 2017 due to an "error" by the trial judge.

SUDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DARFUR FOR RAPING 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL

A court on 28 November 2021 sentenced a young man to death by hanging for raping 8-year-old girl in Nyala, South Darfur.

IRAQ: DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM IN NAJAF

Najaf Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to the capital penalty for charges related to terrorism on 28 November 2021.

USA - Alabama. Donnie Abernathy sentenced to death

BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2013 MURDER OF TEEN EASY BIKE DRIVER IN GOPALGANJ

A Gopalganj court on 25 November 2021 sentenced five people to death for the murder of 16-year-old Easy Bike driver Jahidul Islam Babu in 2013.

EGYPT: CASSATION COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR 22 OVER KILLING POLICE OFFICER, CONDUCTING 54 TERROR ATTACKS

Egypt’s Court of Cassation rejected on 25 November 2021 an appeal by defendants of the “Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdes” case and upheld death penalty against 22 convicts in the case.

LIBYA: MISURATA’S MILITARY COURT SENTENCING HAFTAR TO DEATH

The permanent court-martial in Misurata sentenced in absentia on 25 November 2021 Khalifa Haftar to death for bombing Misurata Air Defense College in 2019 and causing the killing of one Libyan Army soldier.