2021

ETHIOPIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY AFTER KILLING THREE PEOPLE

A court in Oromia Regional state has ruled a capital punishment for a man convicted of killing a man in the region’s Ilu Ababor Zone, the State-Run Broadcaster reported on 4 April 2021.

PAKISTAN: SINDH HIGH COURT COMMUTES THREE DEATH SENTENCES

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 5 April 2021 commuted the death sentences that had been handed down against three men to life imprisonment, in two separate cases.

USA - Arkansas. Bill calling for death for child rape falters

Public-defender cost raised as concern

USA - Oklahoma. Jury recommends death for Derrick Laday

in a 2015 murder case

IRAN Hojat Ghaed executed in Zanjan Central Prison on April 5

For murder

USA - Florida. Death sentence set aside for Sonny Boy Oats

The man has been on death row since his 1981 sentencing

IRAN - 12 women on Urmia's death row

they are Kurdish, sentenced for murder

VIETNAM: MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING NEARLY 40KG OF DRUGS FROM CAMBODIA

A court in southern An Giang Province sentenced two men to death on 1 April 2021 for trafficking almost 40kg of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam in May last year.

IRAN - 3 Kurdish prisoners executed on April 4 in Urmia Prison

Ahad Habibvand (Nematvand), Sadegh Mohi (Mohemi), and Mohammad Karim Mahmoudi

USA - Military. 40 detainees remained in Guantanamo.

Camp 7 shut down and locked

INDIA: UP MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL

A special POCSO court in Firozabad (UP) on 1 April 2021 sentenced a man to death for raping a 10-year-old girl in December 2020, disposing of the case in a “record” three and a half months.

MALAYSIA: EX-POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEP-DAUGHTER’S MURDER

A former police corporal told his family members to accept what had happened and to look after his children after the High Court of Kuala Lumpur on 31 March 2021 sentenced him to death by hanging for killing his step-daughter six years ago.

SAINT LUCIA JUSTICE MINISTER: ‘WE SHOULD USE THE DEATH PENALTY’

Justice and National Security Minister, Senator Hermangild Francis has said that the death penalty should be used in Saint Lucia, considering it remains on the law books, the Loop reported on 31 March 2021.

PAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 30 March 2021 commuted the death sentence of a convicted man into life term in a murder case of his wife.

VIETNAM: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRADING DRUGS IN NORTH-CENTRAL PROVINCES

Two defendants on 30 March 2021 were sentenced to death for drug-related offenses in two separate cases in the north-central Vietnamese provinces of Ha Tinh and Nghe An.

PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING AND KILLING MINOR GIRL

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on 27 March 2021 handed down death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a minor girl in 2019 in Punjab province.

IRAN - Annual report on the death penalty by Iran Human Rights

At least 267 people were executed in 2020

VIETNAM: ACTIVISTS FACING DEATH REFUSE TO PLEAD FOR AMNESTY, ASSERTING INNOCENCE

Two Vietnamese land-rights activists facing the death penalty after being convicted for their roles in a deadly clash with police last year at the Dong Tam commune outside Hanoi are refusing to ask for amnesty in the case, saying the move would amount to

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BANGLADESHI

A court in Saudi Arabia on 24 March 2021 sentenced Umar al-Shammeri, a Saudi Arabian citizen, to death for killing Bangladeshi immigrant Sagar Patwari in Dammam of the country 15 years ago.

IRAN - Calls to release Swedish-Iranian scientist Djalali

From Sweden and Germany

USA - Florida. Bill to eliminate death penalty for mentally ill clears first Senate committee

SB 1156

USA - California. Jamelle Armstrong resentenced to life

He was sentenced to death in 2004

INDIA: FOUR GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR HONOUR KILLING IN JHARKHAND

The district court in Jharkhand’s Koderma on 25 March 2021 awarded death sentence to four people convicted in an honour-killing case. The four convicts include the victim’s parents and her uncle and aunt.

USA - North Carolina. Bar Suspends License of Lawyer Who Defrauded Death-Row Exonerees

Patrick Megaro Defrauded Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

USA - Tennessee. Supreme Court reinstates Anthony Hines' death sentence

USA - Launch of a new website

The Death Penalty Photography Project

EU WELCOMES ARMENIA’S RATIFICATION OF PROTOCOL TO INTERNATIONAL COVENANT AIMED AT ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY

The European Union on 24 March 2021 welcomed the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aimed at the abolishment of death penalty by Armenia.

BANGLADESH: 14 ISLAMIST MILITANTS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR ATTEMPTING TO KILL PM HASINA

A Bangladeshi court on 23 March 2021 handed down the death sentence to 14 Islamist militants for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her southwestern constituency in 2000.

IRAN - ‘No to Islamic Republic’

Iran opposition seeks to unify in anti-regime campaign

ALGERIA: MUEZZIN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SLITTING THROAT OF HIS PREGNANT WIFE

A 42-year-old muezzin has been sentenced to death in Algeria for stabbing and slitting the throat of his wife - who was pregnant with twins - in a crime that shocked Algerian society, Gulf News reported on 21 March 2021.