Jordan’s state security court sentenced a citizen to death on 12 January 2021 for the 2019 stabbing of eight people, four of them foreign tourists, at one of the kingdom’s ancient sites.

ordered by the DC Court of Appeals

pending a competency hearing

Zeng Chunliang, a man who killed three people within six days last year, was sentenced to death by the Yichun Intermediate People's Court in Jiangxi province on 11 January 2021.

Uncertainties over execution protocol

For drug crimes

The crime is not known

Petition in federal court in Indiana

Bureau can proceed only if it shows it is taking certain COVID precautions

The District and Sessions Court of Haveri, in Karnataka, sentenced a man to death under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on 7 January 2021, after finding him guilty of raping and murdering a minor girl in 2018.

The FBI has called Little "the most prolific serial killer in the history of the United States"

The Republic of Kazakhstan formally abolished the death penalty on 2 January 2021, when President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed off on parliamentary ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, an international treaty that commits signatory nations to abolish capital punishment.