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FEBRUARY 4, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY
An Abeokuta High Court on 3 February 2021 sentenced a 33-year-old man, Ibrahim Toyin, to death by hanging for robbing a woman of her handbag at gunpoint.
- FEBRUARY 4, 2021DEATH PENALTY
USA - South Carolina. State Supreme Court delays execution of Brad Sigmon
No lethal drugs
- FEBRUARY 3, 2021DEATH PENALTY
USA - Nearly 1 Million Dollar for Each Federal Execution
financial records recently obtained by the ACLU
FEBRUARY 3, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR GIRL
A Shariatpur court on 3 February 2021 sentenced two people to death for killing a minor girl after rape at Sakhipur village under Bhedarganj upazila, three years back.
FEBRUARY 3, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR ABDUCTING AND RAPING A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
The Qinzhou Intermediate People's Court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on 2 February 2021 carried out the execution of Yang Guangyi, who raped a 10-year-old girl.
FEBRUARY 3, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT ORDERS MAN ACQUITTED IN PEARL MURDER OFF DEATH ROW
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on 2 February 2021 ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called government “safe house.”
FEBRUARY 3, 2021DEATH PENALTYUSA - Virginia. SB 1165 to abolish death penalty passes Senate
It is expected to easily pass the House
FEBRUARY 3, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Belgian Court sentenced iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi to 20 years
for planning to bomb a meeting of the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
- FEBRUARY 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Jabbar Nemati executed in Adelabad Prison on February 2
for murder
FEBRUARY 2, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCES OF 8 CONVICTS IN 2 MURDER CASES
The High Court have recently confirmed the death penalty of eight convicts in Bangladesh in two separate murder cases in Keraniganj of Dhaka and Faridpur, The Daily Star reported on 1st February 2021.
FEBRUARY 2, 2021VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: SIX PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city sentenced six members of a transnational gang to death on 29 January 2021 for trafficking 100 kg of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam, VNExpress reported.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2021AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA WON’T EXTRADITE S’PORE-BORN MURDER SUSPECT IF DEATH PENALTY AWAITS HIM
A man born in Singapore wanted in relation to a murder case nearly four decades ago is in jail in Australia, but the country’s Attorney-General’s Department has said he cannot be extradited if he faces the death penalty.