Moghadam Alizade, Hossen Abbasi Zade, Hamdullah Alami and Fayzullah Ghorbani

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has ordered the release of four inmates serving various terms of imprisonment from the correctional centres in the state, while six convicts sentenced to death by hanging were commuted to life imprisonment to mark the 2022 New Year celebration.

On drug-related charges

For murder

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For murder

A couple from western China’s Chongqing municipality were both sentenced to death on 28 December 2021 for conspiring to kill the man’s two young children from a previous marriage so they could start a new family.

An Abeokuta High Court on 24 December 2021 sentenced four gang members to death by hanging for armed robbery.

An Iraqi criminal court on 23 December 2021 handed death sentences to three people accused of having a hand in a terrorist bomb attack that targeted southeastern Iraq earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced.

A Peshawar court on 23 December 2021 convicted a 42-year-old man of committing blasphemy through uploading a video on the internet and sentenced him to death along with a fine of Rs100,000.

At least 360 executions il 2021

A Dhaka court on 26 December 2021 sentenced 13 people to death in a case filed over the murder of a local Awami League leader in 2016.