2021

IRAN - Mashallah Sabzi Executed

Based on Qassameh Testimony

INDIA: 26-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE-MURDER OF MINOR GIRL

A 26-year-old man was on 27 September 2021 awarded a death sentence in the Indian state of Rajasthan for raping an eight-year-old child and strangling her.

IRAN - Amirhossein Hatemi died under torture on September 23

At the Greater Tehran Penitentiary

PAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH FOR GANG RAPE IN KASUR

A gender-based violence court in Kasur on 5 August 2021 awarded death sentence to three people in the gang rape of a mentally-challenged minor girl.

IRAN - Yasin Abdullahi executed in Zahedan Prison on September 29

For murder

USA - Texas. Rick Rhoades, 57, White, was executed

6th execution of the year in the US, never so few (due to the covid)

USA - Louisiana death row: Inmates get time, daily meal together

IRAN - Abbasgholi Salehi, Hamid Shahsanayi and Mohammad Barahouyi executed in Isfahan on September 29

81 executions for drug related crimes

IRAN - Farhad Salehi-Jabehdar executed in Karaj Prison on September 29

On rape charges

PAKISTAN: WOMAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR CLAIMING TO BE PROPHET

A Lahore district court on 27 September 2021 awarded death sentence to a woman for claiming to be a prophet.

IRAQ: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN IRAQI KURDISTAN

A court in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on 2 August 2021 sentenced three people to death for the murder of a leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPIK).

JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING MOTHER

The Grand Criminal Court on 27 September 2021 sentenced a man to death by hanging for killing his mother with the help of his brother.

PAKISTAN: MQM ACTIVIST’S KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH

Hyderabad model criminal trial court-I judge Ahsan Durrani on 20 September 2021 awarded capital punishment to a suspect in murder case of an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: COURT RULING CLEARS WAY FOR FIRST EXECUTIONS IN NEARLY 70 YEARS

A ruling by Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court on 30 July 2021 cleared the way for the country’s first executions in almost 70 years.

NIGERIA: MAN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING WIFE IN JIGAWA

A Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel on 5 August 2021 sentenced a 40-year-old man Rabi’u Mamman to death by hanging for killing his wife.

SAUDI ARABIA: ISIS MEMBER EXECUTED IN JAZAN

The Saudi Interior Ministry announced on 29 July 2021 that it had carried out the death penalty against a member of the ISIS terror group in Jazan city.

PORTUGAL: SUSPECT LINKED TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM FEARS DEATH PENALTY IF EXTRADITED

Indian citizen Iqbal Singh is in preventive custody in Lisbon following SEF’s execution of an international arrest warrant for connections to and the financing of terrorism, Portugal Resident reported on 9 September 2021.

IRAN - Sohrab Naji and Vahab Samadi executed in Shiraz on September 25

Naji for drugs, Samadi for murder

VIETNAM: THREE LAOTIAN DRUG MULES SENTENCED TO DEATH

A court in central Vietnam on 16 August 2021 handed out death penalties to three Laotian men for transporting heroin and other narcotics.

JAPAN: EX-COP'S DEATH PENALTY UPHELD OVER MURDER OF WIFE, CHILDREN

A high court denied on 15 September 2021 an appeal lodged by the defense of a former policeman who a lower court ruled should be put to death for the murder of his wife and 2 children at their southwestern Japan home in June 2017.

IRAN - Hrana received reports regarding mass executions

in Taybad, Torbat-e Jam, and Mashhad prisons

IRAN - Mass executions in prisons in the north of the country in September

USA - Alabama. Marcus Williams' death sentence overturned

BANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF TWO FOR THE RAPE AND MURDER OF A CHILD

The Supreme Court on 21 September 2021 upheld the death sentence of two persons convicted for the abduction, rape and murder of Tania, a child from Patuakhali.

VIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING ECSTASY FROM EUROPE TO VIETNAM

A Da Nang City court on 20 September 2021 sentenced to death the kingpin of a gang that smuggled thousands of ecstasy pills into Vietnam last year.

INDIA: SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOCTOR’S MURDER IN TAMIL NADU

More than seven years after the killing of popular Chennai based neurosurgeon Dr S D Subbaiah the First Additional Sessions Court on 4 August 2021 sentenced seven of the ten accused to death sentences and two others to double life terms.

IRAN - Ahmad Forouhid executed in Boroujerd Prison on September 22

For murder

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj Prison on September 22

for murder during a robbery

USA - Homicides increased by 29% in 2020, the year of Covid, but also of Black Lives Matter.

2021 still increasing

USA - Texas. Appeals Court Vacates Conviction of Clinton Young