on drug (opium) charges

on murder charges

charged with rape

Iraq’s president ratified more than 340 death sentences for people with terrorism and other criminal charges, state media reported on 24 January 2021.

An article published online by Cambridge University Press is the first to report the nationwide public support rate for the death penalty in China.

for murder

A Kano state high court (appeal division) has set aside the death sentence imposed on Yahya Sharif Aminu, a Kano-based singer, convicted for blasphemy.

Terming it as rarest of the rare case, a court in Madhya Pradesh on 20 January 2021 sentenced a 21-year-old man and his 42-year-old uncle to death for raping and beheading a 12-year-old girl.

A sepoy of the Frontier Corps was sentenced to death on 20 January 2021 over killing of a Karachi University student in August last year.

A man in China was sentenced to death on 18 January 2021 for killing the judge who presided over his divorce.

Fourteen people were sentenced to death in two different cases, Egypt Today reported on 19 January 2021.

A special POCSO court sentenced a man to death on 20 January 2021 for raping and murdering a two-year-old girl in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), the verdict coming within a month of the crime.