2021

USA - California. Sandi Dawn Nieves' death sentence overturned

For murdering her 4 young daughters

USA - Texas. Poll Shows Decreasing Support for Death Penalty

from 78 to 63% in 10 years

IRAN - Parviz Barzoo and Shamila Arabzadeh summoned to jail

for converting to Christianity

USA - Why a few counties generate most of the death sentences

“Learning to kill", by Frank R. Baumgartner

ZAMBIA: MAZABUKA MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING SCHOOL GIRL

The High Court sitting in Mazabuka, Zambia, on 29 April 2021 sentenced to death by hanging 21-year-old Michelo Siangumba of Mazabuka for the murder of Tina Chingumbe Muyuni Mweene, who was a pupil at Mazabuka Girls Secondary School.

PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED 4 COUNTS OF DEATH PENALTY IN QUADRUPLE MURDER CASE

A man convicted of killing four people in Rawalpindi Airport area has been handed four counts of death penalty, two life terms, 25 years imprisonment and Rs3.4 million in fines and compensation to victim families, The Nation reported on 28 April 2021.

USA - Oklahoma. Joseph Fidel Alliniece sentenced to death

By a Cleveland County jury

IRAN - “Forgiveness”

662 forgiveness cases in 2020, compared to 211 qisas executions

USA - Pennsylvania. Patrick Stollar's death sentence overturned

USA - Oklahoma. Court overturned the death sentences of Benjamin Robert Cole and James Chandler Ryder

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, Citing McGirt

MALAYSIA: 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.

MALAWI: 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.

USA - Pennsylvania. Supreme Court vacated death sentence of Melvin Speight

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.

INDIA: 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.

IRAN - “Show Trials” of Dual Nationals Will Continue Until International Reaction

CHRI urges P5+1 to take stand

USA - Georgia. Willie James Pye’s death sentence reversed

VIETNAM: 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.

EGYPT: 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

KENYA: 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.

USA - South Carolina. House Judiciary Committee approved electric chair and firing squad

The bill already cleared the Senate

USA - Tennessee. House and Senate pass bill to stop executions of intellectually disabled

Implications for the case of Pervis Payne

EGYPT: 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.

IRAN - Nazanin Sentenced to Another Year Behind Bars

British-Iranian hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

VIETNAM: 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.

IRAN - Habibullah Sheikh-Hossein executed on April 26

In Sabzevar Prison, on drug charges

USA - Texas. Court Recommends New Trial for Clinton Young

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.

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.

IRAN -Seyyed Sadrollah Fazeli Zare is the second man sentenced to death for "insulting the Prophet"