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DECEMBER 31, 2021DEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Penalty Information Center: Year End Report 2021
Virginia abolishes, 11 executions, 19 new death sentences
- DECEMBER 30, 2021DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 prisoners executed In Urmia on December 31, 2021
Moghadam Alizade, Hossen Abbasi Zade, Hamdullah Alami and Fayzullah Ghorbani
DECEMBER 30, 2021DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yasuj on December 30
DECEMBER 29, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO THREW CHILDREN OUT WINDOW AND GIRLFRIEND WHO INSTIGATED THE MURDERS
A couple from western China’s Chongqing municipality were both sentenced to death on 28 December 2021 for conspiring to kill the man’s two young children from a previous marriage so they could start a new family.
DECEMBER 29, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 4 GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN OGUN
An Abeokuta High Court on 24 December 2021 sentenced four gang members to death by hanging for armed robbery.
DECEMBER 29, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERROR CHARGES
An Iraqi criminal court on 23 December 2021 handed death sentences to three people accused of having a hand in a terrorist bomb attack that targeted southeastern Iraq earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced.
DECEMBER 29, 2021DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Ali-Panahi executed in Shiraz on 29 December 2021
DECEMBER 29, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to July 1, 2021
Fewest Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Three Decades
DECEMBER 28, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR BLASPHEMY
A Peshawar court on 23 December 2021 convicted a 42-year-old man of committing blasphemy through uploading a video on the internet and sentenced him to death along with a fine of Rs100,000.
- DECEMBER 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified prisoner executed in Rajai Shahr Prison "in recent days"
For murder
DECEMBER 27, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 13 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF BRAHMANBARIA AWAMI LEAGUE LEADER
A Dhaka court on 26 December 2021 sentenced 13 people to death in a case filed over the murder of a local Awami League leader in 2016.
DECEMBER 27, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: IS-LINKED MAN EXECUTED FOR SUICIDE ATTACK PLOT
Saudi Arabia on 27 December 2021 executed a Yemeni man accused of plotting a suicide attack in the kingdom and of links to the Islamic State jihadist group, the interior ministry said.