The Madras High Court on 17 March 2021 commuted from death to life sentence the punishment imposed by a trial court on an unemployed youngster convicted for murdering his 54-year-old woman neighbour in a residential complex.

A man involved in robbery and murder was awarded death penalty on 10 March 2021 by a court in Rawalpindi.

The Supreme Court on 18 March 2021 sentenced to death seven men convicted of the mass murder of a family in Krabi in 2017.

A Pakistani court on 20 March 2021 sentenced two men to death over the gang rape of a French-Pakistani mother, lawyers said, an attack that prompted nationwide protests and tough new anti-rape legislation.

Two people on 18 March 2021 were sentenced to death for killing a seven-year-old child, Baitul, in Chapainawabganj.

A special POCSO court in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district on 17 March 2021 awarded death penalty to a man for raping a 5-year-old girl 26 days ago and appreciated the swift action by the police in the case.

116th woman hanged since Hassan Rouhani became president

For gang-raping a woman

The State Security Court (SSC) on 17 March 2021 sentenced six men to death in the case of the 16-year-old boy, who was a victim of a brutal revenge attack in Zarqa in October last year.

A Khulna court on 18 March 2021 sentenced four people to death and five others to life term imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2010.

A Somaliland military court on 13 March 2021 sentenced a military soldier to death for killing a civilian.

is reportedly in a critical condition and near death