2021

USA - Life Without Parole Is A Death Sentence With Fewer Legal Protections

56,000 people serving life-without-parole sentences

IRAN - According to PMOI / MEK, as of May 21 the death toll from Coronavirus is 294,800

The regime declared 78,194

CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF FEMALE JUDGE

A woman was sentenced to death on 19 May 2021 after a court in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, identified her as having murdered a judge at the beginning of this year.

VIETNAM: HANOI DRUG MULE SENTENCED TO DEATH ON $650 JOB

A Hanoi man received a death sentence for transporting over 2.5 kilos of ecstasy into the city last year.

IRAN - Younes and Abdullah Totazehi executed in Birjand Prison

For drugs

USA - Florida. Adam William Davis sentenced to life in prison.

PAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY AWARDED TO MURDER CONVICT COMMUTED TO LIFE SENTENCE

The Sindh High Court commuted on 18 May 2021 the death sentence awarded to a murder convict into life imprisonment.

IRAN - Ghassem B. executed in Mashhad Prison on May 19

For sex crimes

USA - Texas. Quintin Jones was executed

without media witnesses

IRAN - A man, only identified as Sajad, executed in Mashhad Prison on May 19

For murder

KOREA APPEARS TO HAVE EXECUTED TWO MEN FORCIBLY REPATRIATED BY S. KOREA TO N. KOREA IN 2019

Two North Koreans who crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) into South Korea in November of 2019 have reportedly appeared in educational materials published by North Korea’s Ministry of State Security.

UGANDA: THREE SENTENCED TO 50 YEARS IN JAIL FOR MURDER OF ERITREAN NATIONAL

The High Court in Kampala on 17 May 2021 sentenced three man to 50 years in Jail for the kidnap and killing of an Eritrean businessman.

KENYA: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO KILLED A ‘THIEF’ WHO WASN’T A THIEF

A Court of Appeal on 13 May 2021 upheld a High Court’s judgement, which sentenced a middle-aged man to death for taking part in the killing of a man, who had been mistaken for a thief, the Standard reported on 18 May 2021.

USA - Idaho. Pizzuto's Execution On Hold

Scheduled to be executed June 2, 2021

USA - South Carolina. Governor signs bill adding firing squad and elettrocution as options for executions

The new law becomes effective on May 17

IRAN - Ahad Yektavatan and Amir Rezaei tortured to death

At Urmia Central Prison on May 17

IRAN - Mehran Narouyi executed in Isfahan Prison on May 17

On drug-related charges

IRAN - Amir Bayati executed in Shiraz Prison on May 16

For murder

IRAN - Jamal Mohammadi executed in Ilam Prison on May 16

For murder

IRAN - 3 Baluch executed in Ghaen Prison

over the past three months

IRAN - Alimorad Zabiei executed in Qazvin Prison on May 15

For drugs

IRAN - Behzad Adl was hanged on May 15 in Adelabad Prison

In Shiraz. For 3 counts of rape.

DR CONGO: THIRTY SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ANTI-POLICE CLASHES

Thirty people were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 15 May 2021 after a one-day trial for their role in anti-police violence marking the end of Ramadan in the capital.

IRAN - Ebrahim Raisi nominated for presidential election

He was on the "Death Commission"

USA - North Carolina. Exonerees McCollum and Brown get $75M

They already had 10

USA - North Carolina. William Barnes gets 2 life sentences

Sentenced to death in 1994

USA - Florida. New sentencing hearing for 5 death row prisoners

Joseph Smith, David Sylvester Frances, Pinkney W. Carter, Gerald Delane Murray and Brandon Lee Bradley

IRAN - Saba Kord Afshari on hunger strike

Women's right activist

USA - Nevada. Democrats Squander Opportunity To End Death Penalty

Gov. Sisolak walked back his position

SIERRA LEONE: GOVERNMENT MOVES TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY

Sierra Leone's government will move to abolish the death penalty in the West African state, deputy justice minister Umaru Napoleon Koroma said on 12 May 2021.