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
FEBRUARY 15, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal Executions Were Likely COVID Superspreader Events
Associated Press Finds
- FEBRUARY 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran Denies Citizen Detained In Turkey Is A Consulate Employee
Involved in the murder of a dissident
FEBRUARY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Ali-Mohammadi executed at Nour Prison on February 14
He was charged with murder
FEBRUARY 13, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN ALI ABU AL-QASIM’S DEATH SENTENCE REDUCED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON
Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Criminal Court sentenced on 11 February 2021 Egyptian engineer Ali Abul-Qasim to 25 years in prison after cancelling a death penalty over his conviction in a drug trafficking case.
FEBRUARY 13, 2021Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: STAY ORDER ON DEATH PENALTY EXTENDED
The Supreme Court on 11 February 2021 extended the stay order on the decision by former President Maithripala Sirisena to implement the death penalty on four drug convicts.
FEBRUARY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahavar Tanazi executed at Meshgin Shahr Prison on February 13
Sentenced for murder
FEBRUARY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamaluddin Brahui and Mohammad Barahui executed at Birjand prison on February 13
The two Baluchi prisoners were executed on drug related charges
FEBRUARY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Ghazagh executed on February 13 at Birjand Prison
For drug crimes
- FEBRUARY 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Another Iranian Diplomat Arrested for Terror
In Turkey, for murder of an Iranian dissident
- FEBRUARY 11, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: EIGHT ISLAMISTS TO HANG OVER MURDER OF PUBLISHER
Eight Islamic extremists were on 10 February 2021 sentenced to death in Bangladesh for the murder of a publisher, as the Muslim-majority nation grapples with tensions between religious hardliners and secularists.
FEBRUARY 11, 2021SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: KHARTOUM AUTHORITIES HANG SOUTH SUDANESE WOMAN
A 39-year-old South Sudanese woman in Khartoum was hanged on 9 February 2021 after being sentenced to death for killing her little sister in Sudan three years ago.
FEBRUARY 11, 2021AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Willie B. Smith won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection
the U.S. Supreme Court said the state could not proceed without his pastor in the death chamber
- FEBRUARY 11, 2021YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: HOUTHI-RUN COURT SENTENCES LAWMAKERS TO DEATH
A court in Yemen’s capital run by the Houthi rebel group on 9 February 2021 handed down death sentences in absentia to 11 parliamentarians over their support for the Yemeni government.
FEBRUARY 10, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: FIVE ‘TERRORISM’ CONVICTS HANGED
Iraq on 9 February 2021 hanged five people convicted on “terrorism” charges in a notorious southern prison, security sources said, despite an international outcry in recent months over the country’s execution record.
FEBRUARY 10, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 40-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ARMED ROBBERY
Akwa Ibom State High Court on 8 February 2021 sentenced a 40-year-old man, Kufre Christopher Archibong, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
FEBRUARY 10, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED FOR TWO MENTALLY ILL CONVICTS
In a landmark ruling, Pakistan's top court on 10 February 2021 commuted the death sentences of two mentally ill prisoners who have spent decades on death row, the first such ruling in this conservative Muslim-majority nation.
FEBRUARY 9, 2021IsraelDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: ISRAELI ON DEATH ROW TO BE TRANSFERRED TO ISRAEL
After being sentenced to death and managing to survive in one of the harshest prisons in Thailand — and after a long legal battle in the Israeli Supreme Court led by Adv. Nechama Tzivin — Israeli citizen Yigal Makhlouf will soon be transferred to Israel a
FEBRUARY 9, 2021BotswanaDEATH PENALTYBOTSWANA: TWO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER
Botswana on 8 February 2021 hanged two men convicted of murder.
FEBRUARY 9, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMY SOLDIER MURDER
A Cumilla court on 8 February 2021 sentenced four people to death and another to ten years jail in a case filed over murder of an army soldier in 2016.
FEBRUARY 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Taleshi, 21, Killed in Police Custody
arrested for seven grams of marijuana
FEBRUARY 9, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death Sentence for Melissa Lucio Reinstated
by Federal Appeals Court
FEBRUARY 9, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Christopher Williams Released From Prison After Being Cleared of Another Murder
In 1989 he was charged with 6 murders, none of which he committed
FEBRUARY 8, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: THREE YOUTHS GET PRISON SENTENCE INSTEAD OF DEATH
Three young Saudi men who faced death sentences for acts they were accused of committing as minors have been handed a 10-year prison sentence instead, the Saudi Human Rights Commission said on 7 February 2021.
- FEBRUARY 8, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO RAPED, MURDERED 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Pakistan’s top court on 5 February 2021 dismissed an appeal filed by a man convicted to death for the rape and murder of an 8-year old girl in Punjab’s southern district Vehari.
FEBRUARY 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Naderi and an unknows female executed in Ardabil Prison on February 8
The woman, 23, may have been a juvenile offender
FEBRUARY 8, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Harris County DA Seeks to Vacate Sentence for Raymond Riles
Nation’s Longest-Serving Death-Row Prisoner
- FEBRUARY 6, 2021DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
ELISABETTA ZAMPARUTTI HAS BEEN ELECTED TO THE CPT FOR A SECOND TERM
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe elected me to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) as a member on behalf of Italy.
FEBRUARY 6, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SERIAL KILLER AND RAPIST EXECUTED IN HEBEI
High-profile serial killer Wang Shujin, 53, was executed in Hebei province on 2 February 2021 after his death sentence for rape and intentional killing was approved by the Supreme People's Court.
FEBRUARY 5, 2021VirginiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Virginia. After Senate, House voted to abolish death penalty
Governor is expected to sign
FEBRUARY 4, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR BEIJING HOSPITAL KNIFE ATTACK
A Beijing court on 2 February 2021 handed a death sentence with a two-year reprieve to a man who injured four people with a knife at a hospital in the city.