The United Nations on 26 July 2021 demanded an end to extrajudicial killings in South Sudan after the execution of at least 42 people, including boys, in lawless parts of the country.

Al-Shabaab militant group has executed an 83-year-old man accused of blasphemy in in central Somalia, the militant court confirmed on 5 August 2021.

A Beheira criminal court on 29 July 2021 sentenced 24 Muslim Brotherhood members to death for the killing of police officers in two separate cases, a judicial source said.

A Minya Criminal court on 13 September 2021 sentenced four people to death by hanging and 22 others to life in prison for raiding and torching a police station, which resulted in the death of two policemen.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 18 August 2021 upheld death sentence of an adult man and commuted three other youths’ death sentence to life-term imprisonment finding them guilty of raping and killing a girl.

121 women executed in Iran since 2013

For murder

For murder

An Emirati drug addict in Al Ain has been sentenced to death for killing his father after the victim allegedly refused to give him money to buy drugs, Khaleej Times reported on 13 September 2021.

A district court in Japan on 24 August 2021 sentenced the head of a gangster organization to death after its members killed one civilian and injured three others.

Sentenced for murder through a qassameh ceremony

On August 31, 2021