The head of the Parliamentary Strategic Planning and Government Program Monitoring Committee, Hazem Majid Al-Khalidi, called on the Presidency of the Republic to abide by the constitution to implement death sentences against terrorists whose sentences were ratified indiscriminately, Shafaq News reported on 18 August 2021.

An Iraqi court on 21 August 2021 sentenced the recently convicted killer of the Mayor of the central city of Karbala to the death penalty.

A 24-year-old man from Madhya Pradesh on 23 July 2021 was awarded the death penalty for killing and raping a minor girl, more than two years ago.

Sierra Leonean lawmakers voted to abolish the death penalty on 23 July 2021, becoming the latest African country to move toward banning capital punishment.

Residents in Shaw village in the Hiiraan region say that an Al-Shabaab court sentenced a woman to death for allegedly being a soldier in the Hirshabelle Security Forces, Hiiraan Online reported on 1 September 2021.

Six Iraqis sentenced to death, three for "terrorism", were hanged on 30 August 2021 in a prison in southern Iraq, a medical source told AFP.

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The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeals on 20 August 2021 issued a ruling reversing its prior judgement that had declared the death penalty unconstitutional.