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MAY 5, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SLAYING DENTIST
According to legal sources, an Egyptian court has convicted a man on fatally stabbing a dentist and sentenced him to death, the Gulf News reported on 5 May 2021.
MAY 5, 2021IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Idaho will execute an Italian American with terminal cancer: Gerald Ross Pizzuto
On June 2
- MAY 4, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN DECRIES EU PARLIAMENT’S MOVE ON BLASPHEMY LAWS
Pakistan on 30 April 2021 decried a move by the European Parliament, which a day earlier adopted a resolution demanding Islamabad allow freedom for religious minorities.
MAY 4, 2021ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
A police officer on 4 May 2021 was sentenced to death by hanging for shooting dead a Zambia Air Force employee at Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) offices in Chipata in 2019.
MAY 4, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. House votes to end 'law of parties' in death penalty cases
HB 1340 passed 139-4
MAY 4, 2021ArkansasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arkansas. DNA tests cast doubt on the guilt of Ledell Lee
Executed 4 years ago.
MAY 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Monfared beheaded by his family
because of his sexual orientation
- MAY 3, 2021AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Jury recommends death sentence for Michael Anthony Powell
MAY 3, 2021North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: KIM JONG UN 'HAS OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR IMPORTING CHEAP CHINESE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT’
North Korea has executed a party official after he defied Kim Jong-un in the hope of getting an empty showpiece hospital opened to patients, South Korea's Daily NK newspaper reported on 23 April 2021.
MAY 3, 2021BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: LUKASHENKO PARDONS 2 BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Illya Kostseu (21) and Stanislau Kostseu (19), who were sentenced to death in January 2020, have been pardoned, human rights centre Viasna reported on 30 April 2021 with reference to the family.
MAY 3, 2021CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Sandi Dawn Nieves' death sentence overturned
For murdering her 4 young daughters
MAY 3, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Poll Shows Decreasing Support for Death Penalty
from 78 to 63% in 10 years
- MAY 3, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Parviz Barzoo and Shamila Arabzadeh summoned to jail
for converting to Christianity
- MAY 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Why a few counties generate most of the death sentences
“Learning to kill", by Frank R. Baumgartner
MAY 1, 2021ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: MAZABUKA MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING SCHOOL GIRL
The High Court sitting in Mazabuka, Zambia, on 29 April 2021 sentenced to death by hanging 21-year-old Michelo Siangumba of Mazabuka for the murder of Tina Chingumbe Muyuni Mweene, who was a pupil at Mazabuka Girls Secondary School.
MAY 1, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED 4 COUNTS OF DEATH PENALTY IN QUADRUPLE MURDER CASE
A man convicted of killing four people in Rawalpindi Airport area has been handed four counts of death penalty, two life terms, 25 years imprisonment and Rs3.4 million in fines and compensation to victim families, The Nation reported on 28 April 2021.
APRIL 30, 2021OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Joseph Fidel Alliniece sentenced to death
By a Cleveland County jury
APRIL 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Forgiveness”
662 forgiveness cases in 2020, compared to 211 qisas executions
- APRIL 29, 2021PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Patrick Stollar's death sentence overturned
- APRIL 29, 2021OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Court overturned the death sentences of Benjamin Robert Cole and James Chandler Ryder
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, Citing McGirt
APRIL 29, 2021MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: WIDOWER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A widower was sent to the gallows by the High Court of Kuala Lumpur on 22 April 2021 after he was found guilty of trafficking 149.5 grams of methamphetamine three years ago.
APRIL 29, 2021MalawiDEATH PENALTYMALAWI: SUPREME COURT RULES DEATH PENALTY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Malawi's highest court on 28 April 2021 outlawed the death penalty and ordered the re-sentencing of all convicts facing execution.
- APRIL 29, 2021PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Supreme Court vacated death sentence of Melvin Speight
- APRIL 28, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 17 PRISONERS EXECUTED FOR 2013 ATTACK ON POLICE
Egyptian authorities on 26 April 2021 hanged 17 people who were convicted of murder for an attack on a police station in 2013, lawyers representing their families have said.
APRIL 28, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MADRAS HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF CONVICT TO LIFE
The Madras High Court on 26 April 2021 reduced the death sentence awarded by a lower court to life term in a sensational rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Coimbatore in 2019, which sent shock waves in Tamil Nadu.
- APRIL 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - “Show Trials” of Dual Nationals Will Continue Until International Reaction
CHRI urges P5+1 to take stand
- APRIL 27, 2021GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Georgia. Willie James Pye’s death sentence reversed
APRIL 27, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: 19-YEAR-OLD ONLINE GAME ADDICT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING, ROBBING WOMAN
A teenage boy from the north-central Vietnamese province of Thanh Hoa on 26 April 2021 was sentenced to death for murdering a woman and stealing her property last year.
APRIL 27, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 9 MEN EXECUTED FOR 2013 ATTACK ON POLICE
Egyptian authorities on 26 April 2021 executed nine men, including an 82-year-old man, convicted of murder in an attack on a police station in 2013, security officials and a rights lawyer said. The assault resulted in the deaths of 15 people, including 11
APRIL 27, 2021KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: DEATH ROW CONVICT FREED, CO-ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH
A death row convict Dickson Amalemba Lisanza has been freed after seven years in jail, The Standard reported on 27 April 2021.