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FEBRUARY 20, 2021AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: JIHADIST SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FRENCH HIKER’S MURDER
An Algerian court on 18 February 2021 sentenced to death a jihadist for the kidnapping and beheading of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel six years ago after a high profile one-day trial.
- FEBRUARY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mansour Ghazaq hanged on February 20
for murder
FEBRUARY 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Esmaili was already dead when executed
according to her lawyer
- FEBRUARY 18, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING, KILLING MENTALLY RETARDED MINOR BOY
The Mahila Court on 18 February 2021 awarded death penalty to a 34-year-old man hailing from Gujarat for sexually assaulting and murdering a mentally retarded 17-year-old minor boy.
FEBRUARY 18, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR 10 MILITANTS
A Bangladeshi top court on 17 February 2021 upheld the death sentence of 10 militants in a two-decade-old case related to the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
FEBRUARY 18, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC Adds Eleven Cases to Innocence List
185 death-row exoneration from 1973 to today
FEBRUARY 17, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PATNA SCHOOL PRINCIPAL GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING CLASS 5 STUDENT
The principal and a teacher of a school in Patna on 15 February 2021 were awarded death sentence and imprisonment for life, respectively, by a court for the rape of a Class 5 student.
FEBRUARY 17, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FOUR OF A FAMILY IN KURIGRAM
Kurigram District and Sessions Judge Md Abdul Mannan on 16 February 2021 sentenced six people to death for killing four members of a family in 2014.
FEBRUARY 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 more men executed on February 17 at Rajai Shahr Prison
9 executions in one day at Rajai Shahr
- FEBRUARY 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 woman and 6 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on February 17
Only the woman identified: Zahra Esmaili
FEBRUARY 17, 2021JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR MAN WHO KILLED FIVE-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW
The Court of Cassation has overturned an October Criminal Court verdict, sentencing a man to death after convicting him of murdering his nephew in May 2019, the Jordan Times reported on 16 February 2021.
FEBRUARY 16, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DISMISSED SARS OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING
A State High Court in Benin City, Edo Sate, on 12 February 2021, sentenced a police constable, Joseph Omotosho, to death for conspiring with four other constables, said to be at large, to kill a car dealer in 2015.