For murder
For the murder of a Deputy Sheriff
At least 64 Myanmar citizens detained in protests against the country’s Feb. 1 military coup have been sentenced to death by junta courts.
Average Time on Death Row Approaches 19 Years
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Michelle Bachelet at a session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva
Blames US for inspiring it
The Egyptian government executed eight people on 21 June 2021 bringing the total number of people hanged this year alone to 57, according to the NGO Reprieve.
A man who killed a Kurdish family of three in Baghdad was sentenced to death on 8 June 2021, a lawyer told Rudaw.
A man convicted of killing two road cleaners in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Miharu in May last year by ramming into them with a truck was sentenced to death at the Koriyama branch of the Fukushima District Court on 24 June 2021.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours