NEWS
51,051 ARTICLES · 1999—2026The news from the three battles.
We update every day. No advertising, no trackers, no algorithm. The news that power does not want to see — and the news that power does everything to hide.
JANUARY 23, 2021PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FRONTIER CORPS MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING STUDENT IN TURBAT
A sepoy of the Frontier Corps was sentenced to death on 20 January 2021 over killing of a Karachi University student in August last year.
JANUARY 23, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE IMPOSED ON KANO SINGER OVER BLASPHEMY
A Kano state high court (appeal division) has set aside the death sentence imposed on Yahya Sharif Aminu, a Kano-based singer, convicted for blasphemy.
JANUARY 23, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BROTHER, UNCLE GET DOUBLE DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, BEHEADING 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN MP
Terming it as rarest of the rare case, a court in Madhya Pradesh on 20 January 2021 sentenced a 21-year-old man and his 42-year-old uncle to death for raping and beheading a 12-year-old girl.
- JANUARY 22, 2021DEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Death sentence of Charles Brownlow commuted to life without parole
for intellectual disability
JANUARY 22, 2021DEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Anthony Fletcher has been released from prison
28 years after he was sent to death row
- JANUARY 21, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: GHAZIABAD MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, MURDERING FRIEND'S 2-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER
A special POCSO court sentenced a man to death on 20 January 2021 for raping and murdering a two-year-old girl in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), the verdict coming within a month of the crime.
JANUARY 21, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 14 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TWO DIFFERENT CASES
Fourteen people were sentenced to death in two different cases, Egypt Today reported on 19 January 2021.
JANUARY 21, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO KILLED JUDGE OVER DIVORCE TRIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man in China was sentenced to death on 18 January 2021 for killing the judge who presided over his divorce.
- JANUARY 20, 2021ThailandDEATH PENALTY
THAILAND: BANYIN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF CHUWONG
Former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn on 20 January 2021 was sentenced to death for the premeditated murder of construction tycoon Chuwong Sae Tang that he tried to pass off as a car accident six years ago.
JANUARY 20, 2021AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: VICE PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR EXECUTION OF TALIBAN PRISONERS
Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on 18 January 2021 demanded the execution of Taliban prisoners as violence surges in the country in spite of US-sponsored talks between the government and the militants.
JANUARY 20, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MANIKGANJ FOR KILLING UP MEMBER
A Manikganj court on 18 January 2021 sentenced five people to death and acquitted thirteen others in a case filed over the murder of union parishad member Ashraf Ali in Ghior upazila of Manikganj in 2013.
JANUARY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolraouf Kobdani executed at Zahedan Central Prison on January 20
on drug (opium) charges