2021

IRAN - Amirhossein Hatemi died under torture on September 23

At the Greater Tehran Penitentiary

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

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.

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.

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: 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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Naji for drugs, Samadi for murder

USA - Alabama. Marcus Williams' death sentence overturned

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

IRAN - Hrana received reports regarding mass executions

in Taybad, Torbat-e Jam, and Mashhad prisons

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.

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.

USA - Texas. Appeals Court Vacates Conviction of Clinton Young

USA - California. Scott Peterson will be sentenced to LWOP in November

USA - In the Extreme: Women Serving Life Without Parole and Death Sentences

A report by the Alice Project

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

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.

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj Prison on September 22

for murder during a robbery