Chronological archive
April 2021
The 97 news items published by Hands Off Cain in April 2021, in chronological order.
USA - 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 PENALTYUSA - 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.
APRIL 27, 2021South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. House Judiciary Committee approved electric chair and firing squad
The bill already cleared the Senate
APRIL 26, 2021TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. House and Senate pass bill to stop executions of intellectually disabled
Implications for the case of Pervis Payne
APRIL 26, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: ISIL-LINKED GROUP CLAIMS EXECUTION OF COPT, 2 TRIBESMEN
An Islamic State-affiliated group has claimed the execution of a Coptic Christian and two tribesmen in Egypt’s restive Sinai region, in a video posted on its Telegram channel, Aljazeera reported on 19 April 2021.
APRIL 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nazanin Sentenced to Another Year Behind Bars
British-Iranian hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
APRIL 26, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: HANOI DRUG TRAFFICKER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Da Nang court sentenced one man to death and a woman to life imprisonment on 24 April 2021 for storing and transporting five kilos of drugs.
APRIL 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habibullah Sheikh-Hossein executed on April 26
In Sabzevar Prison, on drug charges
APRIL 26, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Court Recommends New Trial for Clinton Young
- APRIL 24, 2021TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN UNCHANGED ON EVENTUAL GOAL OF ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY: MINISTER OF JUSTICE
Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang said on 21 April 2021 that Taiwan remains on track to abolish capital punishment despite an execution and five death sentences last year.
- APRIL 24, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRANSPORTING 31 KG OF METHAMPHETAMINE
A Ha Tinh court on 20 April 2021 sentenced two people to death and another to life imprisonment for transporting 31 kg of methamphetamine.
- APRIL 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN -Seyyed Sadrollah Fazeli Zare is the second man sentenced to death for "insulting the Prophet"
APRIL 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Birjand Prison on April 24
Baluch men sentenced on drug-related charges
- APRIL 22, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two men sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad
Only one of the men has been identified: Yousef Mehrad
APRIL 22, 2021SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: PUNTLAND MILITARY COURT HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE TO FIVE SHABAB MEMBERS
Court of the Armed forces of the Puntland State of Somalia on 21 April 2021 handed down death sentence to five Shabab members who were found guilty in what the court said a series of assassinations and planting landmines in Galkacyo and some parts of the
APRIL 22, 2021IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: SIX TERRORISTS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR DEADLY RIOT
The East Jakarta district court on 21 April 2021 sentenced to death six terrorists responsible for the deadly riot at a detention center outside Jakarta in May 2018.
- APRIL 21, 2021DEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY IN 2020: EXECUTIONS DOWN A QUARTER – AMNESTY’S NEW REPORT
The number of executions recorded by Amnesty International during 2020 fell by a quarter compared to the previous year - one of the findings of the organisation’s authoritative annual overview of capital punishment across the world, published on 21 April
APRIL 21, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DETAINED WITHOUT CHARGES, RENOWNED ATHEIST STILL IN PRISON
The self-proclaimed atheist Mubarak Bala is still in detention in northern Nigeria after he was arrested by the police and taken to an unknown destination, according to his family and human rights organizations, Afp reported on 20 April 2021.
- APRIL 21, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. TDCJ Revises Execution Protocol
To Permit Spiritual Advisers in Death Chamber
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- APRIL 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran at the bottom of reporters’ freedom
According to Reporters Sans Frontières Iran ranks 174 amid 180
APRIL 20, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SULAIMANI MAN WHO KILLED WIFE AND CHILDREN
Erbil’s Court of Appeals has upheld a death sentence for a man who burned his wife and three children to death in December 2018 in Sulaimani province, the victims’ lawyer told Rudaw on 19 April 2021.
APRIL 20, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TRAIN BLAST CONVICT DIES OF COVID-19
Kamal Ansari (51), a death row convict of 2006 Mumbai serial train blast case, died of Covid-19 in a Nagpur hospital on 19 April 2021.
- APRIL 19, 2021DEATH PENALTY
GLOBAL DEATH PENALTY REPORT: EXECUTIONS FOR DRUG OFFENSES DOWN 75% WORLDWIDE
Executions for drug offenses plummeted worldwide during 2020, according to a new report by the global drug-policy monitor Harm Reduction International (HRI).
APRIL 19, 2021MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: NGO RELEASES SONG PENNED BY MALAYSIAN DEATH ROW INMATE TO SPREAD AWARENESS
A new Malaysian NGO, Sebaran Kasih has embarked on producing a song written by an inmate, Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, who is in the Changi Prison in Singapore awaiting execution, the New Straits Times reported on 17 April 2021.
APRIL 19, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Sonia Sotomayor’s Lonely Battle at the Supreme Court
To Give the Voiceless a Voice
APRIL 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unsolved Case of Ukraine’s Flight 752
Downed By Iran’s IRGC
- APRIL 17, 2021Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: MEASURES AGAINST THE TRADE IN GOODS USED FOR TORTURE OR EXECUTION
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2021 adopted a Recommendation (CM/Rec(2021)2) inviting member States to take measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment o
- APRIL 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Cellmate Describes Torture and Humiliation of Ali Younesi
APRIL 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Senators Urge Biden To Shut Down Guantánamo
Calling It A 'Symbol Of Lawlessness'
- APRIL 15, 2021TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ARSONIST WHO CAUSED NINE DEATHS
The Taiwan High Court on 14 April 2021 upheld the death penalty handed down to Li Kuo-hui, an ethnic Chinese from Myanmar, for starting a fire in an apartment building in Zhonghe, New Taipei in November 2017 that resulted in the deaths of nine people.
- APRIL 15, 2021ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arizona. State Paid $1.5 Million for Execution Drugs
While Facing a Budget Crisis
APRIL 15, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: REGIME HANDS MENTALLY ILL MAN DEATH SENTENCE
A person who suffers from mental illness was sentenced to death along with 18 other people by Myanmar’s military regime on 8 April 2021 after being accused of banditry and murder in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, in late March.
APRIL 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Djalali moved out of solitary
Says Amnesty
- APRIL 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arsalan Moradi executed on April 13 in Birjand Prison
For drugs
- APRIL 14, 2021TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
USA - Tennessee. Legislative Committees Approve Intellectual Disability Bill
House Bill 1062 and Senate Bill 1349
APRIL 14, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: SEVEN MORE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY COURT-MARTIAL
Myanmar's state-run television reported on 13 April 2021 that seven people had been sentenced to death by court-martial for their roles in the killing of a woman who purportedly cooperated with the military.
APRIL 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Arsalan Khodkam commuted to life imprisonment
A Kurdish political prisoner
APRIL 14, 2021United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH PARDONED BY VICTIM'S FAMILY
The Sharjah Court of Appeal has reduced a sentence of death issued against a 34-year-old Asian accused of killing his roommate to seven years in prison, Khaleej Times reported on 14 April 2021.
- APRIL 14, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Death sentence of Humberto Garza vacated
APRIL 14, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death sentence of Raymond Riles vacated
State’s longest-serving death row inmate
- APRIL 13, 2021NevadaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Nevada. House repeals death penalty
Sends AB395 to Senate
- APRIL 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sohrab Masgari executed on April 13
In Gonbad Kavous Prison, for murder
APRIL 13, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: NIGERIAN DRUG TRANSPORTER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The People’s Court of the southwestern province of Tay Ninh on 13 April 2021 sentenced Unachukwu Chiluba Paulinus, a Nigerian man born in 1996, to death for illegally transporting narcotic substances under Clause 4, Article 250 of the 2015 Penal Code.
- APRIL 13, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN, SON SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER
A Mardan court on 1 April 2021 awarded a death sentence to a man and his son for stabbing to death his wife.
- APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Council of the EU prolongs and extends sanctions
For gross and systematic violations of human rights
- APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed on April 12
One of them was Ghorban Karimi
- APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed at Karaj Central Prison on April 12
Merhdad Jalali, Mohsen Madavian and Ramezan Ali Shahroodi
- APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Ramezani executed on April 12
In Qazvin Prison, for murder
APRIL 12, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 80% OF PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH AS MINORS STILL FACE EXECUTION
Anti-death penalty group Reprieve said on 9 April 2021 that 80% of those sentenced to death for crimes in Saudi Arabia while minors still face execution despite reforms announced in 2020.
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APRIL 12, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ISIS LEADER HANDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR 2014 ANBAR MASSACRE
An Iraqi court sentenced an Islamic State(ISIS) leader to death on 12 April 2021 for committing a massacre against a Sunni tribe in Anbar province in 2014.
APRIL 12, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 3 SOLDIERS EXECUTED FOR 'HIGH TREASON’
Saudi Arabia executed three soldiers on 10 April 2021 it accused of committing “high treason,” without elaborating on which enemy the kingdom believed the men aided.
APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Zare executed at Shiraz Prison on April 12
For murder
APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Mahdavian executed at Karaj Prison on April 12, 2021
For murder
- APRIL 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Kabiri executed in Isfahan Prison on April 11
Convicted of drug charges
- APRIL 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amnesty International has called on Iran to halt the execution of Farhad Salehi Jabehdar
Aentenced to death for the rape of a minor
- APRIL 10, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: 19 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING ASSOCIATE OF OFFICER
Nineteen people have been sentenced to death in Myanmar for killing an associate of an army captain in a district of Yangon, the military owned Myawaddy television station said on 9 April 2021.
- APRIL 10, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE
Mahila Sessions Court Judge G. Prathibha Devi on 8 April 2021 awarded the death penalty to Bathula Nambiar alias Sujith, who killed his wife, Sailaja (29) by setting her ablaze.
APRIL 10, 2021North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: AUTHORITIES EXECUTE CHAIRMAN OF ‘DISTANCE EDUCATION ACT’ COMMISSION
Daily NK learned on 9 April 2021 that following an Organization and Guidance Department (OGD) investigation into the Ministry of Higher Education’s “non-standing commission for the implementation of the Distance Education Act,” North Korean authorities la
APRIL 10, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bayazid Rashidi executed in Orumiyeh Prison on April 10
For drug related charges
- APRIL 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Urmia prison on April 9
They were identified as Mahmoud Bayazid, Ali Mohammadzadeh, Arshad Heydari, and Hamid Najmi.
- APRIL 9, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Republican-led states secretly spending huge sums on execution drugs
In Arizona, Tennessee and Missouri
APRIL 9, 2021OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Governor DeWine pushes back 3 more executions
To 2024
- APRIL 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Safar Rahimi executed in Taybad Prison on April 8
For drug-related charges
- APRIL 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A.A and K.H. executed in Babol Prison on April 8
For murder
- APRIL 8, 2021MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR RAPIST, KILLER OF 11-YEAR-OLD ADNANE BOUCHOUF
The Tangier Court of Appeal upheld on 7 April 2021 the death penalty sentence against a 24-year-old man, who kidnapped, raped, and killed Adnane Bouchouf, an 11-year-old boy in September 2020.
- APRIL 8, 2021IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA: DRUGS GANG OF 13 SENTENCED TO DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD
Indonesia on 6 April 2021 handed death sentences to a gang of 13 drug traffickers, including an Iranian couple and a Pakistani man, the prosecutor’s office said.
APRIL 8, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY, LIFE TERM IN MURDER CASE
Sargodha additional district and Session Judge, Khalid Wazir on 6 April 2021 awarded death sentence to a man and another to life imprisonment of 32-year in a murder case in Factory Area police limits.
APRIL 8, 2021OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Jonathan Mann, Son Of Victim, Opposes Death Penalty
Urges Legislature To End It Quickly
- APRIL 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yasser Daryayi-Narouyi executed in Sabzevar Prison on April 7
For drug-related charges
APRIL 7, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: UIGHUR FORMER-GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 'SEPARATISM'
Two Uighur ex-government officials in China's Xinjiang have been handed death sentences for carrying out "separatist activities", a court said.
APRIL 7, 2021ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: PAROLED SERIAL KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2019 MURDER
The Khon Kaen Provincial Court on 17 March 2021 passed the death sentence on paroled serial killer Somkid Phumphuang for the murder of a woman in 2019 in Kranuan district.
APRIL 7, 2021FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Crosley Green has been freed
After almost 32 years
- APRIL 6, 2021EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
ETHIOPIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY AFTER KILLING THREE PEOPLE
A court in Oromia Regional state has ruled a capital punishment for a man convicted of killing a man in the region’s Ilu Ababor Zone, the State-Run Broadcaster reported on 4 April 2021.
APRIL 6, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SINDH HIGH COURT COMMUTES THREE DEATH SENTENCES
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 5 April 2021 commuted the death sentences that had been handed down against three men to life imprisonment, in two separate cases.
- APRIL 6, 2021ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. Bill calling for death for child rape falters
Public-defender cost raised as concern
- APRIL 6, 2021OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Jury recommends death for Derrick Laday
in a 2015 murder case
- APRIL 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Hojat Ghaed executed in Zanjan Central Prison on April 5
For murder
- APRIL 5, 2021FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Death sentence set aside for Sonny Boy Oats
The man has been on death row since his 1981 sentencing
APRIL 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 12 women on Urmia's death row
they are Kurdish, sentenced for murder
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- APRIL 4, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING NEARLY 40KG OF DRUGS FROM CAMBODIA
A court in southern An Giang Province sentenced two men to death on 1 April 2021 for trafficking almost 40kg of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam in May last year.
APRIL 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 Kurdish prisoners executed on April 4 in Urmia Prison
Ahad Habibvand (Nematvand), Sadegh Mohi (Mohemi), and Mohammad Karim Mahmoudi
APRIL 4, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Military. 40 detainees remained in Guantanamo.
Camp 7 shut down and locked
APRIL 3, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UP MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A special POCSO court in Firozabad (UP) on 1 April 2021 sentenced a man to death for raping a 10-year-old girl in December 2020, disposing of the case in a “record” three and a half months.
- APRIL 1, 2021MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: EX-POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEP-DAUGHTER’S MURDER
A former police corporal told his family members to accept what had happened and to look after his children after the High Court of Kuala Lumpur on 31 March 2021 sentenced him to death by hanging for killing his step-daughter six years ago.
APRIL 1, 2021St. LuciaDEATH PENALTYSAINT LUCIA JUSTICE MINISTER: ‘WE SHOULD USE THE DEATH PENALTY’
Justice and National Security Minister, Senator Hermangild Francis has said that the death penalty should be used in Saint Lucia, considering it remains on the law books, the Loop reported on 31 March 2021.