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JANUARY 21, 2026NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT HANDS DEATH PENALTY TO 33-YEAR-OLD FOR ROBBERY, SEXUAL ASSAULT IN CROSS RIVER
A High Court of Cross River State sitting in Calabar has sentenced a 33-year-old man, Okon Effiong, to death for armed robbery, rape and aggravated assault, The Guardian reported on January 21, 2026.
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 12 men executed on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report on 25th day of protests
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eight women killed during protests in Isfahan, Kermanshah, and Gilan
Melika Dastiyab, Elham Zeinali, Taybeh Rezaei, Parisa Taghibi, Zahra Mahmoudpour, Fatemeh Tabibi, Niloufar Masoudi
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of six more people killed in Kermanshah
Farhad Balashzar, Saeed Kahrari, Farzad Khirdar, Mohammadamin Salami, Meysam Karani, Seyed Arman Mousavi
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 25th day of protests: 4,902 confirmed fatalities, 9,387 under review
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 8 killed in Islam-Abad-e Gharb
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 killed in Bandar Abbas protests
Esmail Ghalandarzehi, Seyed Ahmad Kazemi, Mehrshad Ragbar, Mohammad-Amin Khatam
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 killed in Isfahan
Mohammadreza Ghorbani, Mehrdad Rihani, Mohammad-Hossein Mousavi, Ali Pouladastoun, Hamid Faqih, Morteza Shahzidi, Hadi Havayi, Hamid Ganji
- JANUARY 21, 2026TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Tommy Lee Walker Declared Innocent 70 Years After His Execution
Walker, a young African-American arrested in 1953 and executed in 1956
JANUARY 21, 2026LebanonDEATH PENALTYLEBANON REVIEWS DEATH PENALTY FOR 84 PRISONERS
Lebanon is facing a critical debate over the death penalty, as 84 prisoners remain under sentences frozen for decades.
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 3 killed in Golestan Province
Reza Asadi, Safa Farzanfar, Kianoush Mirghasemi
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed on January 20
Mikaeil Bahari, Kamran Ghiasvand, Foroud Sagvand, Mardan Saeedi
JANUARY 21, 2026United NationsDEATH PENALTYUNITED NATIONS - UN advocates universal abolition of death penalty
- JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - IHR Report on 24th day of protests
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 13 men executed on January 19 and 20
JANUARY 20, 2026ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: WOMAN EXECUTED FOR ABUSING AND KILLING STEPDAUGHTER
A woman who abused and killed her stepdaughter was executed on January 20, 2026 in Fujian province after the top court approved her death sentence, local authorities said.
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - HRANA Report on 24th day of protests: 4,519 confirmed deaths, 9,049 deaths still under investigation, 26.000 arrested
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mohammad Karami and Saman Gerami killed in Fars Province
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Tarvand killed in Abadan
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 killed in Isfahan
Mohammadreza Davashi Bakhtiari, Farshid Moradi, Ahmadreza Golkhani, Naser Mohedenia, Milad Koochaki
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two women among five killed in Kermanshah
Melika Dastyab, Elham Zeinali, Hassan Fallahi, Elham Zeinali, Reza Darvishi, Mohammad Mehdi Badri
JANUARY 20, 2026CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. More un Lush’s campaign to commute California’s death row
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soldier sentenced to death for refusing to shoot protesters
Javid Khales
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 students killed
Amirali Zarei, Alireza Rafiei-Rad, Ali Zanganeh
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identification of 6 victims in Tehran
Mani Safarpour, Alireza Rahimi, Amirhossein Sohrabi, Erfan Abdipour, Omid Fadakar, and Mohammad Nobakht
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of five more Killed in Tehran
Meysam Khazaei, Shahrouz Mehrabi, Mohammadreza Avazpour, Majid Jalilian, Yashar Soltanirad
- JANUARY 19, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 6
Khodadad Mozafari, Ali Bahman and Hamid Jahangiri
JANUARY 19, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on the 22nd day of protests. 3,685 protesters killed
8,949 additional deaths are still under investigation
JANUARY 19, 2026IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: GUJARAT COURT DELIVERS DEATH PENALTY WITHIN 40 DAYS IN CHILD RAPE CASE
A Rajkot special court on January 17, 2026 delivered a rarest-of-rare judgment with unprecedented speed, sentencing 30-year-old Remsinh Dudwa to death for the sexual assault of a minor girl in Atkot’s Kanpar village.