For murder

8th inmate to be put to death in the USA this year

A policeman has been sentenced to death in Bangladesh for killing his wife, Nepalnews reported on 6 October 2021.

The long incarceration and time spent agonising over the death penalty takes a heavy toll on prisoners who suffer from psychiatric illnesses and intellectual disability, according to a new study conducted in India.

One Momodou Korka Jallow on 21 October 2021 was sentenced to death in Gambia by the High Court, presided over by Justice Sainabou W. Cisse after he was convicted of murder.

A High Court judge on 18 October 2021 sentenced a Hwedza man to death for the murder of his employer in 2015 and throwing the body into Rhodesville Dam.

A Mymensingh court on 11 October 2021 sentenced 50-year-old Md Mustafa to death for the murder of his mother, 70-year-old Mariam Begum.

A former South Korean resident of Japan, who had been convicted as a North Korean spy and sentenced to death in 1983 in South Korea, was acquitted on 19 October 2021 of illegally collecting intelligence, people once close to the now deceased man said.

In the case of gang rape and murder, three convicts were sentenced to death two times and fined Rs. 5 lakh, Pothwar reported on 16 October 2021.

A single mother of nine children was given the mandatory death penalty by the Tawau High Court in Sabah, Malaysia, on 15 October 2021 for drug distribution charges.

The Court of Cassation on 17 October 2021 upheld a June Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after convicting him of murdering his married sister in the Jordan Valley in October 2019.