Chronological archive
March 2021
The 93 news items published by Hands Off Cain in March 2021, in chronological order.
PAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 30 March 2021 commuted the death sentence of a convicted man into life term in a murder case of his wife.
MARCH 31, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRADING DRUGS IN NORTH-CENTRAL PROVINCES
Two defendants on 30 March 2021 were sentenced to death for drug-related offenses in two separate cases in the north-central Vietnamese provinces of Ha Tinh and Nghe An.
MARCH 30, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING AND KILLING MINOR GIRL
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on 27 March 2021 handed down death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a minor girl in 2019 in Punjab province.
MARCH 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Annual report on the death penalty by Iran Human Rights
At least 267 people were executed in 2020
MARCH 30, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: ACTIVISTS FACING DEATH REFUSE TO PLEAD FOR AMNESTY, ASSERTING INNOCENCE
Two Vietnamese land-rights activists facing the death penalty after being convicted for their roles in a deadly clash with police last year at the Dong Tam commune outside Hanoi are refusing to ask for amnesty in the case, saying the move would amount to
MARCH 30, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BANGLADESHI
A court in Saudi Arabia on 24 March 2021 sentenced Umar al-Shammeri, a Saudi Arabian citizen, to death for killing Bangladeshi immigrant Sagar Patwari in Dammam of the country 15 years ago.
MARCH 30, 2021SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Calls to release Swedish-Iranian scientist Djalali
From Sweden and Germany
- MARCH 30, 2021FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Bill to eliminate death penalty for mentally ill clears first Senate committee
SB 1156
MARCH 30, 2021CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Jamelle Armstrong resentenced to life
He was sentenced to death in 2004
MARCH 29, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: FOUR GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR HONOUR KILLING IN JHARKHAND
The district court in Jharkhand’s Koderma on 25 March 2021 awarded death sentence to four people convicted in an honour-killing case. The four convicts include the victim’s parents and her uncle and aunt.
MARCH 29, 2021North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Bar Suspends License of Lawyer Who Defrauded Death-Row Exonerees
Patrick Megaro Defrauded Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
MARCH 29, 2021TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Supreme Court reinstates Anthony Hines' death sentence
MARCH 28, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Launch of a new website
The Death Penalty Photography Project
MARCH 27, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 14 ISLAMIST MILITANTS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR ATTEMPTING TO KILL PM HASINA
A Bangladeshi court on 23 March 2021 handed down the death sentence to 14 Islamist militants for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her southwestern constituency in 2000.
MARCH 27, 2021ArmeniaDEATH PENALTYEU WELCOMES ARMENIA’S RATIFICATION OF PROTOCOL TO INTERNATIONAL COVENANT AIMED AT ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
The European Union on 24 March 2021 welcomed the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aimed at the abolishment of death penalty by Armenia.
MARCH 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - ‘No to Islamic Republic’
Iran opposition seeks to unify in anti-regime campaign
MARCH 25, 2021AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: MUEZZIN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SLITTING THROAT OF HIS PREGNANT WIFE
A 42-year-old muezzin has been sentenced to death in Algeria for stabbing and slitting the throat of his wife - who was pregnant with twins - in a crime that shocked Algerian society, Gulf News reported on 21 March 2021.
MARCH 25, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING WIFE, BROTHER
An Egyptian man has been sentenced to death on charges of murdering his wife and his brother after the convict had sexually assaulted his daughter, Gulf News reported on 23 March 2021.
MARCH 24, 2021VirginiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Virginia. Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing capital punishment
Ceremony at the Greensville Correctional Center
MARCH 24, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SC CONVERTS DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE-TERM
The Supreme Court (SC) on 22 March 2021 converted the death sentence of a murder convict into life imprisonment.
MARCH 24, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: YOUNG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, BEATING AND KILLING 10-YEAR-OLD COUSIN
An Egyptian man has been sentenced to death for raping and killing his 10-year-old cousin, Gulf News reported on 23 March 2021.
MARCH 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Spreading Justice: A database of human rights abusers in Iran
An HRA initiative
MARCH 23, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO MAN IN MURDER CASE
A man involved in robbery and murder was awarded death penalty on 10 March 2021 by a court in Rawalpindi.
- MARCH 23, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE IMPOSED ON YOUNGSTER CONVICTED FOR MURDERING NEIGHBOUR
The Madras High Court on 17 March 2021 commuted from death to life sentence the punishment imposed by a trial court on an unemployed youngster convicted for murdering his 54-year-old woman neighbour in a residential complex.
MARCH 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN adopted new resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran
UN Human Rights Council
MARCH 22, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PAIR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MOTORWAY GANG RAPE
A Pakistani court on 20 March 2021 sentenced two men to death over the gang rape of a French-Pakistani mother, lawyers said, an attack that prompted nationwide protests and tough new anti-rape legislation.
MARCH 22, 2021ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: SEVEN DEATH SENTENCES FOR FAMILY MASSACRE
The Supreme Court on 18 March 2021 sentenced to death seven men convicted of the mass murder of a family in Krabi in 2017.
MARCH 22, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYBusiness Executives Launch Campaign Against the Death Penalty
Richard Branson and Arianna Huffington lead the initiative
MARCH 20, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD IN CHAPAINAWABGANJ
Two people on 18 March 2021 were sentenced to death for killing a seven-year-old child, Baitul, in Chapainawabganj.
MARCH 20, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH 26 DAYS AFTER RAPING 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A special POCSO court in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district on 17 March 2021 awarded death penalty to a man for raping a 5-year-old girl 26 days ago and appreciated the swift action by the police in the case.
MARCH 18, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN IN KHULNA
A Khulna court on 18 March 2021 sentenced four people to death and five others to life term imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2010.
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MARCH 18, 2021JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: SIX GET DEATH SENTENCE IN ZARQA REVENGE ATTACK CASE
The State Security Court (SSC) on 17 March 2021 sentenced six men to death in the case of the 16-year-old boy, who was a victim of a brutal revenge attack in Zarqa in October last year.
MARCH 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN Human Rights experts demand immediate release of Ahmadreza Djalali
is reportedly in a critical condition and near death
MARCH 18, 2021WyomingDEATH PENALTYUSA - Wyoming. Senate defeats death penalty repeal bill
SF 150
MARCH 18, 2021New YorkDEATH PENALTYUSA - New York. Judge Finds Prosecutor Lied to Convict Three Men in 1990s Death-Penalty Case
They have now been released
- MARCH 18, 2021SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALILAND’S MILITARY COURT SENTENCES SOLDIER TO DEATH
A Somaliland military court on 13 March 2021 sentenced a military soldier to death for killing a civilian.
MARCH 17, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MILITARY IMPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR TREASON, DISSENT
Amid growing violence in Myanmar following the 1st February coup, the ruling military on 16 March imposed a death penalty as a possible punishment for treason, dissent, and other offenses against the government.
MARCH 17, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ARIZ KHAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF INSPECTOR MOHAN CHAND SHARMA
A Delhi court on 15 March 2021 awarded the death penalty to convict Ariz Khan for the murder of inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in the 2008 Batla House encounter case.
MARCH 17, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM IN A MURDER CASE
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 17 March 2021 commuted the death sentence of accused Farhan Ahmed to life imprisonment in alleged murder case.
MARCH 16, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CLERIC SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING MINOR IN PESHAWAR
A Pakistani court on 13 March 2021 sentenced a cleric to death for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in Peshawar city two years ago, the Dawn reported.
MARCH 16, 2021AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KABUL UNIVERSITY ATTACK
An appellate court in Parwan on 3 March 2021 sentenced to death two suspects accused of plotting the November 2020 attack on Kabul University.
- MARCH 15, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING KHULNA COLLEGE TEACHER
A Khulna court sentenced two accused to death on 15 March 2021 for killing a teacher of Shahid Abul Kashem Degree College in 2017.
MARCH 15, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN SERVING LIFE FOR BLASPHEMY GETS DEATH SENTENCE
A Pakistani court has given the death sentence to a Christian previously jailed for life after being convicted of sending text messages defaming Prophet Muhammad, UCA News reported on 12 March 2021.
MARCH 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Mashhad Prison on March 15
For gang-raping a woman
MARCH 14, 2021United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - New trial for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Charges of “propaganda against the system”
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Valizadeh executed at Urmia Prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nafiseh Pakmehr, a woman, executed in the Prison of Taybad on March 14
116th woman hanged since Hassan Rouhani became president
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Akchin executed in Ardabil Prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Ghorbani executed in Shiraz Central Prison on March 14
For murder
- MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arash Waresi executed at Zanjan prison on March 14
For murder
- MARCH 14, 2021OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Conviction of Shaun Bosse overturned
for murders in a reservation
MARCH 13, 2021North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: FOUR PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN PYONGYANG ON CHARGES OF DISTRIBUTING ‘ILLEGAL VIDEO MATERIALS’
Four North Koreans were publicly executed in Pyongyang recently on charges of distributing “illegal video materials,” Daily NK has learned.
MARCH 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Woman Hanged; Daughter Carried Out the Execution
Maryam Karimi executed in Rasht Prison on March 13
MARCH 13, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM UPHOLDS FARMERS' DEATH PENALTY OVER LAND CLASH
A court in Hanoi on 9 March 2021 rejected the appeals of two brothers sentenced to death for their part in a bloody confrontation with police over land rights.
MARCH 11, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 9 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CTG
A Chattogram (Chittagong) court on 8 March 2021 sentenced nine people to death in a case filed over killing a man at Fatikchhari upazila 17 years ago.
MARCH 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ss of March 10, 2021, the death toll from Coronavirus exceeded 229,600
According to PMOI / MEK
MARCH 11, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MIGRANT WORKER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2018 RAPE & MURDER CASE IN KERALA
A migrant worker from Assam on 8 March 2021 was sentenced to death in Kerala by the District and Sessions Court for raping and murdering a 60-year-old woman at Puthenvelikkara in 2018.
MARCH 11, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 5 DAESH MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ASSASSINATING OFFICER, BLOWING UP MOSQUES
A preliminary death sentence was issued on 11 March 2021 in Saudi Arabia against five members of a cell affiliated with the terrorist group Daesh.
MARCH 10, 2021Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: 16 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING EBOLA MEDIC
Sixteen people, including a doctor, have been sentenced to death in absentia for the murder of a Cameroonian Ebola expert, lawyers said on 9 March 2021.
MARCH 10, 2021Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: AUTHORITIES SHOULD QUASH WHISTLEBLOWERS’ DEATH SENTENCES
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should quash the death sentences imposed in absentia on two whistleblowers who provided information on corruption, Human Rights Watch declared on 9 March 2021.
MARCH 9, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF WALI BABAR’S KILLERS QUASHED
A double bench of the Sindh High Court, Larkana, on 4 March 2021, accepting the appeal of convicted accused in journalist Wali Babar case, quashed the sentence passed by the ATC Court, Kandhkot.
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MARCH 9, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UTTARAKHAND MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR SODOMISING AND MURDERING 5-YEAR OLD
A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) court of Uttarakhand on 6 March 2021 awarded death penalty to a man for sodomising and murdering a 5-year-old child in US Nagar. His parents were also sent to prison for concealing the crime, said an o
MARCH 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN Report: women second hand citizens
Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran
- MARCH 8, 2021ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arizona. Department of Corrections Says It Is Ready to Resume Executions
with compounded pentobarbital
MARCH 8, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN WHO RAPED FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL GETS DEATH SENTENCE
Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge Jehangir Gondal awarded a death sentence and imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on a man convicted of raping a five-year-old girl.
MARCH 8, 2021OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Julius Jones’ commutation request passes first hurdle
Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-1 to advance the case
MARCH 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asef Taghinejad executed in Tabriz Prison on March 8
For murder
- MARCH 8, 2021Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: TWO WHISTLEBLOWERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA
Two whistleblowers Gradi Koko Lobanga and Navy Malela were sentenced to death in absentia in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in September 2020, the PPLAAF said on 4 March 2021.
- MARCH 7, 2021United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran frees British-Iranian aid worker Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Her British passport has not been returned to her
MARCH 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk man executed at Rajaee Shahr Prison on March 7
For murder
MARCH 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed at Yasuj Prison on March 7
For murder
- MARCH 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Hassani executed at Shahr-e-Kurd Prison on March 7
no other information
- MARCH 6, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BIHAR COURT SENTENCES 9 TO DEATH IN HOOCH TRAGEDY CASE
Nine persons were sentenced to death and four women to life imprisonment in Bihar by Gopalganj Additional District Judge-2 Luv Kush Kumar on 5 March 2021 after they were convicted in the Khajurbanni locality hooch tragedy.
MARCH 6, 2021GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: TWO NIGERIANS TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING FOUR GIRLS
Two Nigerians who were accused of kidnapping and eventually killing four girls in Takoradi, Ghana, were on 5 March 2021 afternoon sentenced to death by a court in the country after they were found guilty of murder.
MARCH 6, 2021ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: SUPREME COURT PASSES DEATH SENTENCE ON PATTANI BOMBERS
The Supreme Court on 3 March 2021 decreed the death penalty for six men convicted of a string of bombings and attempted bombings in central Pattani in 2016.
MARCH 6, 2021ItalyDEATH PENALTYHands off Cain - Comparison between the United States and Italy
speaking at the conference "La Storia di Greg"
- MARCH 4, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ EXECUTES 3 'TERRORISM' CONVICTS
Iraq on 3 March 2021 hanged three men convicted on "terrorism" charges in a notorious southern prison, local officials said, despite repeated international condemnations of the country's execution record.
- MARCH 4, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE IN CHITTAGONG
A Chittagong court on 3 March 2021 sentenced four people to death in a case filed for killing a woman after rape in 2016.
- MARCH 4, 2021WyomingDEATH PENALTY
USA - Wyoming. Senate Committee Passes Bill to Repeal State’s Death Penalty
SF 150
- MARCH 3, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Five prisoners, including three women, were hanged on 27 February 2021 in Egypt,
Five prisoners, including three women, were hanged on 27 February 2021 in Egypt,
MARCH 3, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: NIGERIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRANSPORTING NEARLY 4KG OF METH
The People’s Court of the southern border province of Tay Ninh on 2 March 2021 handed down the death penalty to a Nigerian man for illegally transporting nearly 4kg of meth, in line with the 2015 Criminal Code.
MARCH 3, 2021SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES 5 PEOPLE FOR SPYING
The Somali-based al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group al-Shabaab has executed five people in the southern town of Jilib in Somalia's Middle Juba region, Anadolu Agency reported on 2 March 2021.
MARCH 3, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Abdullahnejad executed on March 3 in Isfahan
for murder
MARCH 3, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED HIS MUM FOR THE MONEY TO BUY AN APARTMENT
A man who electrocuted, then bludgeoned his mother to death to claim an insurance payout so he could buy a flat was executed on 24 February 2021 in China.
- MARCH 2, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: PRISONER EXECUTED AT DAMANHOUR PRISON
A prisoner was reportedly executed on 1 March 2021 morning in Damanhour, Egypt.
MARCH 2, 2021South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Senate adds firing squad and electric chair as method of execution
S 200
MARCH 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fatah Hosseini executed in Noshahr Prison on March 2
for murder
MARCH 2, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: ELEVEN PRISONERS EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Eleven prisoners, all convicted of murder by criminal courts, on 2 March 2021 were executed by prison authorities at Alexandria’s Borg al-Arab Prison.
- MARCH 1, 2021South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH KOREA: CHILD ABUSE CAN NOW LEAD TO DEATH PENALTY
South Korean lawmakers on 26 February 2021 passed a bill at the plenary session of the National Assembly to revise a law dealing with penalties for child abuse, making it possible for child abusers to be convicted of murder even if they did not intend to
- MARCH 1, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Samiee executed at Rasht Prison on March 1
For murder
MARCH 1, 2021MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF EX-TOW TRUCK DRIVER FOR MURDER OF AMBANK FOUNDER
The Federal Court in Putrajaya on 1 March 2021 upheld the conviction and death sentence of a former tow truck driver for the murder of Arab-Malaysian Bank (AmBank) founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi in 2013.
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MARCH 1, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR QUADRUPLE MURDER
A Narayanganj court on 28 February 2021 sentenced two accused to death after 13 years of the four sensational murders in Fatullah of Narayanganj.
MARCH 1, 2021KentuckyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Kentucky. House approved bill to abolish death penalty for people with severe mental illness
HB 148