The news from the three battles.

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

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

CHINA: MAN WHO KILLED HIS PREGNANT WIFE SENTENCED TO DEATH

Yan Haojie, the man who killed his pregnant wife after she refused to help him repay his gambling debts, has been sentenced to death, the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court announced on 30 July 2021.

SAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING WOMAN, BURNING HER BODY

An Egyptian man was executed on 15 September 2021 in Saudi Arabia for killing a woman and burning her body in Medina.

IRAN - Shahin Naseri Dies in Custody Under Suspicious Circumstances

Witness to Navid Afkari’s Torture

IRAN - Mostafa Shafiei executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on September 22

For murder