2021

SOMALIA: PUNTLAND MILITARY COURT HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE TO FIVE SHABAB MEMBERS

Court of the Armed forces of the Puntland State of Somalia on 21 April 2021 handed down death sentence to five Shabab members who were found guilty in what the court said a series of assassinations and planting landmines in Galkacyo and some parts of the

INDONESIA: SIX TERRORISTS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR DEADLY RIOT

The East Jakarta district court on 21 April 2021 sentenced to death six terrorists responsible for the deadly riot at a detention center outside Jakarta in May 2018.

IRAN - Two men sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad

Only one of the men has been identified: Yousef Mehrad

NIGERIA: DETAINED WITHOUT CHARGES, RENOWNED ATHEIST STILL IN PRISON

The self-proclaimed atheist Mubarak Bala is still in detention in northern Nigeria after he was arrested by the police and taken to an unknown destination, according to his family and human rights organizations, Afp reported on 20 April 2021.

USA - Texas. TDCJ Revises Execution Protocol

To Permit Spiritual Advisers in Death Chamber

DEATH PENALTY IN 2020: EXECUTIONS DOWN A QUARTER – AMNESTY’S NEW REPORT

The number of executions recorded by Amnesty International during 2020 fell by a quarter compared to the previous year - one of the findings of the organisation’s authoritative annual overview of capital punishment across the world, published on 21 April

IRAQ: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SULAIMANI MAN WHO KILLED WIFE AND CHILDREN

Erbil’s Court of Appeals has upheld a death sentence for a man who burned his wife and three children to death in December 2018 in Sulaimani province, the victims’ lawyer told Rudaw on 19 April 2021.

INDIA: TRAIN BLAST CONVICT DIES OF COVID-19

Kamal Ansari (51), a death row convict of 2006 Mumbai serial train blast case, died of Covid-19 in a Nagpur hospital on 19 April 2021.

IRAN - Iran at the bottom of reporters’ freedom

According to Reporters Sans Frontières Iran ranks 174 amid 180

SINGAPORE: NGO RELEASES SONG PENNED BY MALAYSIAN DEATH ROW INMATE TO SPREAD AWARENESS

A new Malaysian NGO, Sebaran Kasih has embarked on producing a song written by an inmate, Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, who is in the Changi Prison in Singapore awaiting execution, the New Straits Times reported on 17 April 2021.

USA - Sonia Sotomayor’s Lonely Battle at the Supreme Court

To Give the Voiceless a Voice

GLOBAL DEATH PENALTY REPORT: EXECUTIONS FOR DRUG OFFENSES DOWN 75% WORLDWIDE

Executions for drug offenses plummeted worldwide during 2020, according to a new report by the global drug-policy monitor Harm Reduction International (HRI).

IRAN - Unsolved Case of Ukraine’s Flight 752

Downed By Iran’s IRGC

IRAN - Cellmate Describes Torture and Humiliation of Ali Younesi

COUNCIL OF EUROPE: MEASURES AGAINST THE TRADE IN GOODS USED FOR TORTURE OR EXECUTION

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2021 adopted a Recommendation (CM/Rec(2021)2) inviting member States to take measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment o

USA - Senators Urge Biden To Shut Down Guantánamo

Calling It A 'Symbol Of Lawlessness'

MYANMAR: REGIME HANDS MENTALLY ILL MAN DEATH SENTENCE

A person who suffers from mental illness was sentenced to death along with 18 other people by Myanmar’s military regime on 8 April 2021 after being accused of banditry and murder in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, in late March.

IRAN - Djalali moved out of solitary

Says Amnesty

TAIWAN: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ARSONIST WHO CAUSED NINE DEATHS

The Taiwan High Court on 14 April 2021 upheld the death penalty handed down to Li Kuo-hui, an ethnic Chinese from Myanmar, for starting a fire in an apartment building in Zhonghe, New Taipei in November 2017 that resulted in the deaths of nine people.

USA - Arizona. State Paid $1.5 Million for Execution Drugs

While Facing a Budget Crisis

MYANMAR: SEVEN MORE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY COURT-MARTIAL

Myanmar's state-run television reported on 13 April 2021 that seven people had been sentenced to death by court-martial for their roles in the killing of a woman who purportedly cooperated with the military.

IRAN - Death sentence of Arsalan Khodkam commuted to life imprisonment

A Kurdish political prisoner

UAE: MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH PARDONED BY VICTIM'S FAMILY

The Sharjah Court of Appeal has reduced a sentence of death issued against a 34-year-old Asian accused of killing his roommate to seven years in prison, Khaleej Times reported on 14 April 2021.

USA - Texas. Death sentence of Humberto Garza vacated

USA - Texas. Death sentence of Raymond Riles vacated

State’s longest-serving death row inmate

USA - Tennessee. Legislative Committees Approve Intellectual Disability Bill

House Bill 1062 and Senate Bill 1349

IRAN - Arsalan Moradi executed on April 13 in Birjand Prison

For drugs

VIETNAM: NIGERIAN DRUG TRANSPORTER SENTENCED TO DEATH

The People’s Court of the southwestern province of Tay Ninh on 13 April 2021 sentenced Unachukwu Chiluba Paulinus, a Nigerian man born in 1996, to death for illegally transporting narcotic substances under Clause 4, Article 250 of the 2015 Penal Code.

PAKISTAN: MAN, SON SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER

A Mardan court on 1 April 2021 awarded a death sentence to a man and his son for stabbing to death his wife.