Archive timeline
2021
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2021, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 539
- Countries where they were recorded
- 20
- News items in the archive
- 1,013
Latest news of 2021
- JANUARY 18, 2021VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Virginia. Legislation to abolish death penalty advances in Senate.
SB 1165
JANUARY 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. Corey Johnson died an "excruciatingly painful death"
felt like drowning for 20 minutes
JANUARY 16, 2021BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: MAN RE-SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER RETRIAL
A court in Belarus on 15 January 2021 re-sentenced a man to capital punishment on murder charges, Minsk-based human rights center Viasna said.
- JANUARY 16, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man, identified only as Amir, hanged on January 16
for murder
JANUARY 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA Dustin Higgs was executed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana
He was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m. EST on January 16.
JANUARY 15, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HCMC FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A court in Ho Chi Minh City on 12 January 2021 sentenced six drug traffickers to death for smuggling 13.8 kilograms of synthetic drugs and ketamine from Cambodia into the city.
JANUARY 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamseddin Soleimani has been executed at Qazvin Prison on January 15
for drugs
JANUARY 14, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ATC AWARDS TWO TIME DEATH SENTENCE IN POLICE OFFICIAL MURDER CASE
The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC), Rawalpindi Judge Raja Pervez Akhtar on 13 January 2021 awarded two times the death sentence to an accused in the murder case of a policeman.
JANUARY 14, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWELVE YEARS AFTER HE WAS JAILED, SUPREME COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF DEATH ROW CONVICT
The Supreme Court of India on 5 January 2021 acquitted Hari Om alias 'Hero' who had been convicted and sentenced to death by a trial court for committing murder and dacoity (banditry).
- JANUARY 14, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal. Corey Johnson was executed
lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana
JANUARY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jama Zahrozehi executed at Zahedan Prison on January 14
for drugs
JANUARY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Shirzadeh executed in Yazd Prison on January 14
for murder
JANUARY 14, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYEXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN TURKEY, CHINA ENDANGERS UIGHUR REFUGEES
The Uighur community in Turkey could be in jeopardy after a recent agreement was reached between Turkey and China, Voice Of America (VOA) wrote on 7 January 2021.
JANUARY 13, 2021MoroccoDEATH PENALTYMOROCCO: KILLER, RAPIST OF 11-YEAR OLD BOY SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Moroccan Court sentenced on 13 January 2021 a 24-year old man to death penalty for kidnapping, raping, and killing Adnane Bouchouf, a 11-year old boy in September last year.
JANUARY 13, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: SOLDIER TO DIE BY FIRING SQUAD
A Nigeria Army General Court Martial on 12 January 2021 sentenced a soldier, Azunna Mmaduabuchi, to death by firing squad for killing an officer.
JANUARY 13, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. Lisa Montgomery was executed.
The woman was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday
JANUARY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Feyzi and Moharam Feyzi executed at Ardabil Prison on January 13.
Arrested 5 years ago for murder
- JANUARY 13, 2021AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Judge Keith Watkins overturned the death sentence of Richard Flowers
Flowers had been provided deficient representation at trial
JANUARY 13, 2021SwedenDEATH PENALTYPOLAND: SWEDISH LI ZHIHUI COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IF EXTRADITED TO CHINA
Swedish Falun Gong activist Li Zhihui, 53, risks being extradited to China after he has been detained in Poland for almost two years.
- JANUARY 12, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal judge grants Lisa Montgomery a stay of execution
pending a competency hearing
JANUARY 12, 2021JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2019 KNIFE ATTACK ON TOURISTS
Jordan’s state security court sentenced a citizen to death on 12 January 2021 for the 2019 stabbing of eight people, four of them foreign tourists, at one of the kingdom’s ancient sites.
- JANUARY 12, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Second suspension of the execution of Lisa Montgomery
ordered by the DC Court of Appeals
JANUARY 12, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FUGITIVE WHO KILLED THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH
Zeng Chunliang, a man who killed three people within six days last year, was sentenced to death by the Yichun Intermediate People's Court in Jiangxi province on 11 January 2021.
- JANUARY 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 inmates executed at Meshkin Shahr Prison on January 11
2 of the executions maybe already reported
JANUARY 11, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER
The District and Sessions Court of Haveri, in Karnataka, sentenced a man to death under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on 7 January 2021, after finding him guilty of raping and murdering a minor girl in 2018.
JANUARY 10, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ISLAMABAD ATC SENTENCES 3 TO DEATH FOR SHARING BLASPHEMOUS CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on 8 January 2021 sentenced three men to death for sharing blasphemous content on social media. A fourth accused in the same case was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
JANUARY 10, 2021JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: TWO MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SEPTUAGENARIAN
The Court of Cassation has upheld a June Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a street vendor to death after convicting him of robbing and murdering his 72-year-old relative in Tafileh in October 2017, the Jordan Times reported on 7 January 2021.
JANUARY 10, 2021KazakhstanDEATH PENALTYKAZAKHSTAN ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
The Republic of Kazakhstan formally abolished the death penalty on 2 January 2021, when President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed off on parliamentary ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a
- JANUARY 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Nouri executed in Ilam Central Prison on December 2, 2020
One month after the execution, the news has not been reported in any media
JANUARY 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Rigi executed in Zahedan Central Prison on January 9
For drug crimes