Archive timeline
2021
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2021, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2021
JUNE 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Ahmadi executed on 2 June in Tabriz Prison
For murder
JUNE 1, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH PENALTY FOR TEACHER WHO RAPED MULTIPLE STUDENTS
A Chinese teacher at an elementary school has been sentenced to death in August 2020 for raping several students from 2001 to 2020, the Supreme People's Prosecutor's Office of China said on 31 May 2021 at a press conference.
JUNE 1, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO MURDERERS AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE BY PINDI COURT
The Rawalpindi District Session Court on 31 May 2021 awarded a death sentence to two accused in a murder case.
MAY 31, 2021North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: MAN EXECUTED FOR ILLEGALLY SELLING CDS AND USBS WITH S. KOREAN MOVIES, DRAMAS AND MUSIC VIDEOS
In late April, North Korean authorities publicly executed a man living in Wonsan (Gangwon Province) who illegally sold CDs and USBs filled with South Korean movies, dramas, and music videos.
MAY 31, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: FATHER PARDONS SON’S KILLER MINUTES BEFORE EXECUTION
A convicted killer was “pardoned” by the Saudi father of his victim on 24 May 2021 morning, minutes before he was due to be executed.
MAY 31, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sexual abuse and harassment systematically to break the will of incarcerated women
May 27 group discussion on the Clubhouse social-media app
MAY 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - French tourist Benjamin Berier indicted on espionage charges
Another iranian case of hostage taking
MAY 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef and Shamsi Pirostovan (Pir-Ostovan) executed in Qazvin Prison on May 30
118th woman executed during Rouhani’s tenure
MAY 29, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 Baluch men executed in Birjand prison have been identified
Probably hanged on May 25, not on April 24
- MAY 28, 2021ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE UNVEILS SCULPTURE OF WOMAN HANGED FOR OPPOSING COLONIAL RULE
Zimbabwe’s president on 25 May 2021 unveiled a towering bronze statue in the centre of Harare, the capital, honouring a 19th-century black anti-colonialist heroine who was hanged for leading a rebellion against white occupation.
MAY 28, 2021ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Gas chamber refurbished
Arizona plans to use hydrogen cyanide, the gas used by the Nazis at Auschwitz
- MAY 27, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SLAYING BROTHER
An Egyptian court has sentenced a local man to death after convicting him of fatally stabbing his younger brother, Gulf News reported on 26 May 2021.
MAY 27, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: NIGERIAN RECEIVES DEATH FOR SMUGGLING METH
A Nigerian man was sentenced to death on 25 May 2021 for smuggling nearly six kilos of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam.
MAY 27, 2021NevadaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Nevada. Supreme Court overturns death sentence of Tracy Petrocelli
For 2nd time
- MAY 26, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘DAMMAM KIDNAPPER’
Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court on 24 May 2021 upheld the verdict issued by a criminal court in Dammam in September 2020, awarding the death penalty to a Saudi woman known in the media as the “Dammam kidnapper,” and jail terms for three other defendants, loc
MAY 26, 2021TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SCOOTER STABBING
A Taiwanese court on 26 May 2021 sentenced a man to death for killing a scooter driver in a random knife attack.
- MAY 25, 2021CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Committee Recommends Repeal of Death Penalty
The state holds 1/3 of death row detainees of US
- MAY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Balochistan is no less than Palestine
But no international reaction
- MAY 25, 2021SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING PROTESTER
A Sudanese court sentenced to death on 24 May 2021 a paramilitary officer charged with killing a demonstrator during a deadly breakup of a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, two years ago.
MAY 25, 2021FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Billy Wells sentenced to death
After his seventh murder conviction
MAY 25, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 12 MEMBERS OF NOTORIOUS ROBBER-GANG SENTENCED TO DEATH
A local court in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, on 24 May 2021 sentenced 12 members of a notorious gang to death and seven others to life imprisonment for highway robberies and murders.
MAY 24, 2021AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Michael Anthony Powell sentenced to death
- MAY 24, 2021ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR DEFILING AND KILLING OWN DAUGHTER
A 33-year-old man of Chipili district who allegedly defiled and murdered his three-day old daughter was sentenced to death on 21 May 2021.
MAY 24, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PATNA HIGH COURT ACQUITS 13 ACCUSED IN SENARI MASSACRE CASE
The Patna High Court on 21 May 2021 acquitted 13 accused persons in the Senari massacre case in which 34 persons were killed on 18 March 1999 by an erstwhile Maoist group in Senari village in central Bihar.
MAY 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kianoosh Ali-Moradi and Ahmad Qodrati executed at Isfahan Prison
On narcotic related charges
- MAY 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saleh Shariati, Juvenile Offender Sentenced to Death, Acquitted in Court
A "qassameh" case
MAY 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Condemns New Ruling in Trumped-up Case Against Narges Mohammadi
Human rights defender
MAY 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Kobra Fatemi, hanged in Yazd Prison on May 23
117th woman executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure
- MAY 22, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: HO CHI MINH CITY COURT SENTENCES THREE TO DEATH FOR DRUG OFFENSES
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on 19 May 2021 imposed the death penalty upon three men for a series of drug-related crimes.
MAY 22, 2021MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COUPLE GET DEATH FOR KILLING EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SON
A married couple was sent to the gallows on 21 May 2021 by the High Court of Shah Alam after they were found guilty of murdering their eight-year-old son at a massage centre where they worked, four years ago.