2021

IRAN - Arsalan Karimi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 2

For drugs

IRAN - Eskandar Zare, Sepehr Abbasnejad and Hamzeh Rezaei executed in Urmia on August 2

For drug-related charges

IRAN - Sajad (Sajjad) Sanjari, a minor, executed in Dizelabad prison on August 2

He was 15 years old at the time of the crime

IRAN - Hassan ... and Ali ... executed in Mashhad Prison on August 1

For murder

IRAN - Four unidentified men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 31

For murder

IRAN - Massoud Esfandiari executed on June 30 in Kermanshah Prison

For murder

USA - Utah. Court reinstates death penalty conviction of Von Lester Taylor

IRAN - Esmail Fatehi, Mansour Mohammadi and Mozafar ... executed in Qazvin Prison on July 28

For drug-related charges

IRAN - Vahid Raisi executed at Jiroft Prison on July 28

For murder

IRAN - Mohandes ... executed on July 27 at Karaj Prison

For murder

IRAN - Cousins Amir and Sohrab Heydari executed in Yazd Prison on July 25

For drug-related crimes

IRAN - Unidentified man executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison

Crime not known

IRAN - Ebrahim Shehbakhsh executed in Isfahan Prison on July 25

For drug-related crimes

IRAN - Bakhtiar Salemi executed in Shirvan Prison on July 25

For murder

IRAN - Akbar Abedanpour executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison

For drug related crimes

VIETNAM: 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.

NIGERIA: 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.

USA - Ohio. George Brinkman’s conviction overturned

USA - Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Retires

SIERRA 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.

MYANMAR: JUNTA TRIBUNALS IMPOSE 65 DEATH SENTENCES

The Myanmar junta’s military tribunals have sentenced 65 people to death following unjust trials since the military coup on 1 February 2021, Human Rights Watch said on 21 July 2021.

GAMBIA: EX-JUNTA MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of the Banjul High Court on 14 July 2021 sentenced Yankuba Touray, a former Minister of Local Government and Lands to death by hanging.

IRAN - Police use extreme force to quell Khuzestan water shortage protests

THAILAND: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR GOLD-HEIST SCHOOLMASTER

A Thai Appeal Court on 20 July 2021 upheld the death sentence for former schoolmaster Prasittichai Khaokaew, who shot dead three people, one a child, and wounded four others while robbing a gold shop in Lop Buri province early last year.

IRAN - Hossein Abdollahzadeh executed in Shiraz Prison on July 20

For murder

NIGERIA: TWO POLICEMEN, THREE OTHERS TO DIE FOR KIDNAPPING

Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of the state on 16 July 2021 sentenced two police officers and three other persons to death for kidnapping in the state.

NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY

A High Court in Abeokuta, on 16 July 2021 sentenced a 44-year-old man, Tosin Shodunke to death by hanging for armed robbery.

IRAN - Hossein Sadeghi executed in Isfahan Prison on July 19

For drug-related charges

IRAN - Babak Aslani and Mohsen Asl-Hosseini executed in Urmia Prison on July 18

For murder

IRAN - Hossein Mohammadi executed in Zanjan Prison on July 18

At least 174 executions since the beginning of the year in Iran