the U.S. Supreme Court said the state could not proceed without his pastor in the death chamber

Nation’s Longest-Serving Death-Row Prisoner

The Supreme Court on 11 February 2021 extended the stay order on the decision by former President Maithripala Sirisena to implement the death penalty on four drug convicts.

Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Criminal Court sentenced on 11 February 2021 Egyptian engineer Ali Abul-Qasim to 25 years in prison after cancelling a death penalty over his conviction in a drug trafficking case.

arrested for seven grams of marijuana

The woman, 23, may have been a juvenile offender

Eight Islamic extremists were on 10 February 2021 sentenced to death in Bangladesh for the murder of a publisher, as the Muslim-majority nation grapples with tensions between religious hardliners and secularists.

A 39-year-old South Sudanese woman in Khartoum was hanged on 9 February 2021 after being sentenced to death for killing her little sister in Sudan three years ago.

A court in Yemen’s capital run by the Houthi rebel group on 9 February 2021 handed down death sentences in absentia to 11 parliamentarians over their support for the Yemeni government.

In a landmark ruling, Pakistan's top court on 10 February 2021 commuted the death sentences of two mentally ill prisoners who have spent decades on death row, the first such ruling in this conservative Muslim-majority nation.

Iraq on 9 February 2021 hanged five people convicted on “terrorism” charges in a notorious southern prison, security sources said, despite an international outcry in recent months over the country’s execution record.

Akwa Ibom State High Court on 8 February 2021 sentenced a 40-year-old man, Kufre Christopher Archibong, to death by hanging for armed robbery.