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
JANUARY 26, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Criminal Justice Leaders Urge Biden To End Death Penalty
as 40 members of Congress already did
- JANUARY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Ali Hosseini executed in Dezful Prison on January 25
Hosseini was a wrestler. His case had received widespread support from the sports community
- JANUARY 25, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA: LESS FROM THE POPULACE BUT MORE FROM ELITES
An article published online by Cambridge University Press is the first to report the nationwide public support rate for the death penalty in China.
- JANUARY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Mohammadi and Ali Angazi executed in Kermanshah Prison on 25 January 2021
for murder
- JANUARY 25, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: 340 DEATH SENTENCES RATIFIED FOLLOWING ISIS SUICIDE BOMBINGS
Iraq’s president ratified more than 340 death sentences for people with terrorism and other criminal charges, state media reported on 24 January 2021.
- JANUARY 25, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Supreme Court Rules Favorably Toward Ruben Gutierrez
Inmate Requesting Priest at Execution
JANUARY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Montazerian executed at Dizel Abad Prison on January 25
He was charged with murder
- JANUARY 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shakori executed at Qom Central Prison on January 23
charged with rape
JANUARY 23, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FRONTIER CORPS MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING STUDENT IN TURBAT
A sepoy of the Frontier Corps was sentenced to death on 20 January 2021 over killing of a Karachi University student in August last year.
JANUARY 23, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE IMPOSED ON KANO SINGER OVER BLASPHEMY
A Kano state high court (appeal division) has set aside the death sentence imposed on Yahya Sharif Aminu, a Kano-based singer, convicted for blasphemy.
JANUARY 23, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BROTHER, UNCLE GET DOUBLE DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, BEHEADING 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN MP
Terming it as rarest of the rare case, a court in Madhya Pradesh on 20 January 2021 sentenced a 21-year-old man and his 42-year-old uncle to death for raping and beheading a 12-year-old girl.
- JANUARY 22, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Death sentence of Charles Brownlow commuted to life without parole
for intellectual disability
JANUARY 22, 2021PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Anthony Fletcher has been released from prison
28 years after he was sent to death row
- JANUARY 21, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: GHAZIABAD MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, MURDERING FRIEND'S 2-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER
A special POCSO court sentenced a man to death on 20 January 2021 for raping and murdering a two-year-old girl in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), the verdict coming within a month of the crime.
JANUARY 21, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 14 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TWO DIFFERENT CASES
Fourteen people were sentenced to death in two different cases, Egypt Today reported on 19 January 2021.
JANUARY 21, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO KILLED JUDGE OVER DIVORCE TRIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man in China was sentenced to death on 18 January 2021 for killing the judge who presided over his divorce.
- JANUARY 20, 2021ThailandDEATH PENALTY
THAILAND: BANYIN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF CHUWONG
Former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn on 20 January 2021 was sentenced to death for the premeditated murder of construction tycoon Chuwong Sae Tang that he tried to pass off as a car accident six years ago.
JANUARY 20, 2021AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: VICE PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR EXECUTION OF TALIBAN PRISONERS
Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on 18 January 2021 demanded the execution of Taliban prisoners as violence surges in the country in spite of US-sponsored talks between the government and the militants.
JANUARY 20, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MANIKGANJ FOR KILLING UP MEMBER
A Manikganj court on 18 January 2021 sentenced five people to death and acquitted thirteen others in a case filed over the murder of union parishad member Ashraf Ali in Ghior upazila of Manikganj in 2013.
JANUARY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolraouf Kobdani executed at Zahedan Central Prison on January 20
on drug (opium) charges
JANUARY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafez Abdolsattar executed in Zahedan Prison on January 20.
for murder
- JANUARY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Younes Jamshid-Zehi and Shamsoldin Baji-Zehi executed on January 20 at Zahedan Central Prison.
on murder charges
- JANUARY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Younes Khanshini hanged on January 20
for murder
JANUARY 19, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: DRAMATIC DROP IN EXECUTIONS AFTER LAWS CHANGED IN 2020
Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world's most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the number of people put to death last year, following changes halting executions for non-violent drug-related crimes, according to the government’s tally and inde
JANUARY 19, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SURENDER KOLI GETS 12TH DEATH SENTENCE IN NITHARI MURDER CASE
A Special CBI court in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on 17 January 2021 awarded death sentence to Surinder Koli in yet another case related to one of the country’s most sensational case — the Nithari serial rape and murder case.
JANUARY 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Anwar Ali-Zehi executed at Zahedan Prison on January 19
on drug-related charges
- JANUARY 19, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal. Death sentence tossed for Kenneth Eugene Barrett
for deficient legal representation
JANUARY 18, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: BANNED OUTFIT’S HITMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING THREE
An antiterrorism court on 17 January 2021 awarded death sentence to a hitman, said to be associated with the banned outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, for killing three people during an attack on a shrine, the Dawn reported.
JANUARY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fateh Ghaderi executed in Sanandaj Prison on January 18.
for murder
JANUARY 18, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER-SON IN KAKRAIL
A Dhaka court on 17 January 2021 sentenced three people to death in the case filed over the murder of a woman and her son in Dhaka’s Kakrail area on 1 November 2017.