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At least 75 executed on drug-related charges in Iran in 2021

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The Supreme Court on 21 September 2021 upheld the death sentence of two persons convicted for the abduction, rape and murder of Tania, a child from Patuakhali.

A Da Nang City court on 20 September 2021 sentenced to death the kingpin of a gang that smuggled thousands of ecstasy pills into Vietnam last year.

More than seven years after the killing of popular Chennai based neurosurgeon Dr S D Subbaiah the First Additional Sessions Court on 4 August 2021 sentenced seven of the ten accused to death sentences and two others to double life terms.

An Egyptian man was executed on 15 September 2021 in Saudi Arabia for killing a woman and burning her body in Medina.

Yan Haojie, the man who killed his pregnant wife after she refused to help him repay his gambling debts, has been sentenced to death, the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court announced on 30 July 2021.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on 18 September 2021 that authorities had executed nine men who were convicted of involvement in the 2018 killing of Saleh al-Samad, then the armed group's top civilian leader.

A Tobago man on 28 July 2021 was sentenced to hang for the 2009 double murder of two teenage boys whose bodies were found close to each other at French Fort, Scarborough.

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