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AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Soltan-Abadi executed in Kermanshah Prison on August 9
IHR obtained information on October 8
- AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi and Seyed Esmail Kurdtamini hanged in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug related charges
- AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salim Mohammadi executed in Isfahan prison on August 8
No information about his charges
- AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Golebacheh executed in Birjand Prison on August 8
On drug charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug-related charges
AUGUST 6, 2021AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Brandon Deon Mitchell's death sentence reinstated
AUGUST 6, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Otis McKane sentenced to death
- AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Hassan Eghdami and Ebrahim Afrashteh executed in Qom Prison on August 4
For drugs
AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farzad Afsordeh executed at Jiroft Prison on August 4
For murder
AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Tondroo (Tondro) executed at Karaj Central Prison on August 4
For murder
- AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arsalan Karimi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 2
For drugs
- AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Eskandar Zare, Sepehr Abbasnejad and Hamzeh Rezaei executed in Urmia on August 2
For drug-related charges
- AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad (Sajjad) Sanjari, a minor, executed in Dizelabad prison on August 2
He was 15 years old at the time of the crime
- AUGUST 1, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan ... and Ali ... executed in Mashhad Prison on August 1
For murder
- JULY 31, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Four unidentified men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 31
For murder
- JULY 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Esfandiari executed on June 30 in Kermanshah Prison
For murder
JULY 30, 2021OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Court reinstates death penalty conviction of Von Lester Taylor
JULY 28, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Fatehi, Mansour Mohammadi and Mozafar ... executed in Qazvin Prison on July 28
For drug-related charges
- JULY 28, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Raisi executed at Jiroft Prison on July 28
For murder
- JULY 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohandes ... executed on July 27 at Karaj Prison
For murder
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Cousins Amir and Sohrab Heydari executed in Yazd Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
Crime not known
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Shehbakhsh executed in Isfahan Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bakhtiar Salemi executed in Shirvan Prison on July 25
For murder
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Abedanpour executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
For drug related crimes
JULY 22, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: HCMC DEATH ROW ESCAPEE RECAPTURED
The HCMC police recaptured on 16 July 2021 morning a death row inmate infected with Covid-19 who had escaped from a high-security prison, the police said.
JULY 22, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS BOSS’S WIFE
A 37-year-old man, Adeyemi Morenikeji, on 16 July 2021 was sentenced to death in Oyo State for the killing of Mrs Racheal Ayanwale, his boss’s wife.
- JULY 21, 2021OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. George Brinkman’s conviction overturned
- JULY 21, 2021DEATH PENALTY
USA - Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Retires
JULY 21, 2021Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: PARLIAMENT DEBATES BILL TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone Telegraph on 20 July 2021 reported that MPs last week debated new laws that will abolish the death penalty.