Death penalty

EGYPT: 24 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ATTACKING POLICE

A Beheira criminal court on 29 July 2021 sentenced 24 Muslim Brotherhood members to death for the killing of police officers in two separate cases, a judicial source said.

SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTE MAN FOR BLASPHEMY

Al-Shabaab militant group has executed an 83-year-old man accused of blasphemy in in central Somalia, the militant court confirmed on 5 August 2021.

IRAN - 5 Men Executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on September 15

Unidentified

IRAN - Farshid Rakhshanirad Executed in Birjand on September 15

For drug-related charges

BANGLADESH: SC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF 3 CONVICTS TO LIFE-TERM IMPRISONMENT

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 18 August 2021 upheld death sentence of an adult man and commuted three other youths’ death sentence to life-term imprisonment finding them guilty of raping and killing a girl.

USA - Utah. Four Prosecutors Urge Legislature to Repeal Death Penalty

EGYPT: FOUR PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2013 POLICE STATION ATTACK

A Minya Criminal court on 13 September 2021 sentenced four people to death by hanging and 22 others to life in prison for raiding and torching a police station, which resulted in the death of two policemen.

UAE: DRUG ADDICT, WHO STABBED FATHER 36 TIMES, GETS DEATH SENTENCE

An Emirati drug addict in Al Ain has been sentenced to death for killing his father after the victim allegedly refused to give him money to buy drugs, Khaleej Times reported on 13 September 2021.

IRAN - A man named Jafar was recently executed in Rajai Shahr Prison

AKA Gohardasht Central Prison, in Gohardasht, near Karaj

JAPAN: GANG BOSS SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER GROUP MEMBERS ATTACKED CIVILIANS

A district court in Japan on 24 August 2021 sentenced the head of a gangster organization to death after its members killed one civilian and injured three others.

IRAN - Yasser Mangouri is confirmed to have died in custody

A Kurdish political prisoner

IRAN - Hossein Gholampour executed in Qom Prison on September 13

Execution n. 240 since the beginning of the year

USA - Oklahoma. Another step forward for Julius Jones

A death row inmate whose case has raised a lot of attention

USA - Alabama. Alabama allows death row inmate to hold hands with pastor during lethal injection

Willie Smith case

NORTH KOREAN OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN MURDER, TORTURE, AND POSSIBLE CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE: REPORT

Officials in North Korea carried out murder, torture, and acts that could constitute genocide against certain groups of people, including Christians, a report released last week revealed.

SUDAN: DEATH SENTENCES FOR SIX PARAMILITARIES FOR THE KILLING OF PROTESTERS IN 2019

Six members of a Sudanese paramilitary force were sentenced to death on 5 August 2021 by a court in the central city of Al-Obeid for the deaths of six protesters in 2019, including four school children.

IRAN - Adham Maksani executed in Iranshahr Prison on September 11

For murder

USA - Ohio. De facto moratorium confirmed

Governor DeWine Reschedules Four More Executions

INDIA: HC ACQUITS MAN ON DEATH ROW, SAYS COPS DIDN’T VISIT CRIME SPOT

The Patna High Court on 23 July 2021 acquitted a man, who was sentenced to death for allegedly raping and killing a 16-year-old girl under Barhara police station in Bhojpur district of Bihar.

CAMEROON: FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SHOOTING ATTACK ON SCHOOL

A court in Cameroon has sentenced four people to death for their roles in a shooting attack on a school last year that killed seven children and wounded 12 others, according to a court document seen by Reuters on 8 September 2021.

BANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING LGBTQ ACTIVISTS

A court in Bangladesh on 31 August 2021 sentenced six members of a banned group to death and acquitted two others in connection with the murder of two LGBTQ rights activists five years ago.

IRAN - 5 Death Sentences Commuted to Prison Terms

For drug-related charges

IRAN - 3 women hanged in Gohardasht Prison on September 8

121 women executed in Iran since 2013

IRAN - Ali Morad and Heibat Rouzbi executed on September 8 in Taybad Prison

For drug-related charges

NIGERIA: MINISTER OF INTERIOR ASKS GOVERNORS TO SIGN DEATH WARRANTS OF 3,000

The Nigerian Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on 23 July 2021 urged state governors to sign the death warrants of the 3,008 condemned criminals in the country waiting for execution.

YEMEN: EXECUTION OF THE KILLERS OF YOUNG MAN AL-AGHBARI AMID STRICT SECURITY MEASURES

A court under the control of the Houthi militia in Sanaa on 6 September 2021 executed four convicts for the murder of Abdullah Al-Aghbari, 19.

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED OVER TERRORISM CHARGES

A Saudi man was executed in Dammam on 6 September 2021 on charges of terrorism and weapons smuggling, the interior ministry said.

IRAN - Three men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on September 8

For murder

EGYPT: 10 DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING HEROIN

A court in Egypt on 5 September 2021 sentenced seven Pakistanis, two Egyptians and an Iranian citizen to death on charges of smuggling in over two tonnes of heroin by sea, a judicial source said.

IRAN - Ali Mardan Boland Gerami was executed in Yasuj Prison on September 8

Sentenced for murder through a qassameh ceremony