2021

USA Most atheists and agnostics oppose the death penalty

Unlike other U.S. religious groups

INDIA: 10 AWARDED DEATH FOR 2018 MURDER OF BIHAR BUSINESSMAN

A session court in Bihar on 14 June 2021 sentenced 10 persons to death for the murder of a local businessman for extortion in 2018.

EGYPT: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR 12 BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS

An Egyptian court on 14 June 2021 upheld death sentences for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, concluding a trial linked to a 2013 mass killing by security forces at an Islamist sit-in, a judicial official said.

USA - Alabama. "Almost ready to execute with nitrogen"

Declares the Attorney General

USA - Biden’s Death Penalty Reversal in the Boston Bomber Case

Follows in Trump's footsteps

BELARUS: DEATH ROW PRISONER VIKTAR PAULAU ‘MOST LIKELY EXECUTED’, CONVICT’S SISTER SAID

Death row inmate Viktar Paulau was ‘most likely executed’, the convict’s sister Raisa told Andrey Paluda, coordinator of the campaign ‘Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus’.

BOTSWANA: MAN EXECUTED OVER 2011 MURDERS OF HIS GIRLFRIEND AND CHILD

Botswana on 11 June 2021 carried out the execution of a man who murdered his girlfriend and young son in 2011.

INDIA: LULU JOB OFFER FOR EXPAT SAVED FROM DEATH ROW IN UAE

An Indian expat on death row in the UAE returned home on 9 June 2021 after languishing in jail for almost nine years in a road accident case.

ETHIOPIA: BOY PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN OROMIA

Ethiopian government forces summarily executed a 17-year-old boy in Ethiopia’s Oromia region in broad daylight, Human Rights Watch said on 10 June 2021.

EGYPT: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING MENTALLY ILL GIRL

An Egyptian court had sentenced a man to death by hanging after convicting him of raping a mentally challenged girl in his house, the Gulf News reported on 8 June 2021.

GAZA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

The Khan Younis Court of First Instance issued a death sentence against the citizen (A.M.) for the charge of premeditated murder, Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” reported on 8 June 2021.

IRAN - Bill Targeting Citizen Journalists Passed Parliamentary Judiciary Commission

Spreading inforrmation seen as "espionage"

USA - Gerald Marshall's second message

From Texas' death row

USA - Texas. Raymond Riles resentenced to life

After 45 years on death row

TUNISIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF POLICE OFFICER IN 2017

A court in Tunisia sentenced to death a takfiri for the murder of Commandant Riadh Barrouta killed in a stabbing attack back in 2017 at Bardo Museum in capital Tunis.

USA - Nebraska. Aubrey Trail sentenced to death

ZAMBIA: HIGH COURT SENTENCES TEACHER WHO SHOT DEAD HIS EX-WIFE TO DEATH

The Lusaka High Court has sentenced Kenneth Makina, a teacher, to death by hanging for the murder of his ex-wife Charity Jikubi, The Mast reported on 9 June 2021.

IRAN - Unidentified man hanged on June 9

In Rajai Shahr Prison, for murder

UNITED KINGDOM: FOREIGN SECRETARY URGED TO INTERVENE IN SAUDI ARABIA DEATH PENALTY CASES

The relatives of two men awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia on 7 June 2021 asked British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to press for their release while he visits the kingdom.

NORTH KOREA: KIM JONG-UN WAGING WAR ON SLANG, JEANS AND FOREIGN FILMS

North Korea has recently introduced a sweeping new law which seeks to stamp out any kind of foreign influence - harshly punishing anyone caught with foreign films, clothing or even using slang, BBC reported on 7 June 2021.

SAUDI ARABIA: CITIZEN EXECUTED FOR KILLING 10-YEAR-OLD SON

Saudi authorities on 1st June 2021 executed a citizen for murdering his 10-year-old son.

NORTH KOREA: OFFICIALS SCARED AFTER SISTER OF KIM JONG UN HAS THEIR COLLEAGUES EXECUTED

Government officials in North Korea are living in fear after a series of executions of their colleagues on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, two officials told RFA.

IRAN - Political Prisoner Sasan Niknafas died in custody

IHR Holds Islamic Republic Leaders Responsible

VIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING, RAPING 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL

The People’s Court in the south-central Vietnamese province of Phu Yen on 31 May 2021 condemned a 19-year-old man to death for raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl last year.

PAKISTAN: COURT ACQUITS CHRISTIAN COUPLE OF ‘BLASPHEMY’

A Pakistani court on 3 June 2021 acquitted a Christian couple who have spent seven years on death row for alleged blasphemy, their lawyer says, in a case that rights groups have long singled out for fair trial issues.

IRAN - Shahin Mirkhani executed in Shirvan Prison on June 6

For drugs

USA - Texas. Noah Espada sentenced to life imprisonment

Death sentence overturned because of perjured testimony by sheriff’s deputy

UAE: INDIAN BUSINESSMAN PAYS ‘BLOOD MONEY’ TO SAVE MAN ON DEATH ROW

A Keralite who was awaiting capital execution in the United Arab Emirates for causing the death of a young boy got a new lease of life as NRI tycoon M A Yusuff Ali extended a helping hand by paying a compensation (blood money) of Rs 10 million (500,000 di

USA - Pew Poll: Support for Death Penalty Declining

But Much Higher in Internet Polling than Phone Polling

USA - Oklahoma. Jury Hands Down Death Penalty For William Reece