Singapore's highest court on 12 October 2021 denied an appeal against a man's conviction and death sentence for allegedly smuggling cannabis weighing at least 1kg into the city-state from neighbouring Malaysia.
A Kano State High Court on 12 October 2021 sentenced a man, Aminu Inuwa, to death by hanging for killing his wife Safara’u Mamman.
2021 still increasing
Decision Could Clear the State’s Entire Death Row
282 executions in 2021
IHR obtained information on October 8
Hossein and Ramin Dadzadeh
Meysam Atefifard, Hadi Razi, Rasoul Akrami and Omid Keshtkar
A court in Bangladesh on 12 October 2021 sentenced five people to death and acquitted nine others in a case filed for killing of college student Raju Ahmmed in Rajshahi.
A court in Pudukottai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on 1st October 2021 sentenced a man to death for beheading his mother over a family dispute.
The European Union on 10 October 2021 called for death sentences issued against Yemeni journalists and activists to be revoked.
