USA - Federal. Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs Say Having COVID-19 Will Increase Their Suffering During Execution.

Two people on 4 January 2021 were sentenced to death for raping and killing a minor in Madaripur.

The death sentence for a 30-year-old man dubbed Japan’s “Twitter killer” over the serial murders of nine people in Kanagawa Prefecture in 2017 was finalized on 5 January 2021, court officials said.

IRAN - Fereydoun Tavakoli was executed in Rasht Central Prison on 31 December 2020.

The former chairman of China’s Huarong Asset Management Co was sentenced to death, a court in the northern city of Tianjin said on 5 January 2021, in one of the country’s highest profile corruption cases.

The Northern Gaza Court of First Instance on 4 January 2021 issued a death sentence by hanging against F. N. (32), from Jabalia refugee camp, who was convicted of premeditated murder of his aunt.

He was identified only as "Rostam"

One of the executed was Jafar Zabi. The name of the other three has not been obtained.

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi’s office said that he has pardoned two men convicted over the assassination of former ruler Laurent-Desire Kabila, the father of his political rival Joseph Kabila, AFP reported on 2 January 2021.

Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has granted pardon to 12 prisoners in the state to mark the beginning of 2021.

Their names were Elias Ghalandarzehi, Hassan Dehvari (Hasan Dahvari), and Omid Mahmoudzehi.

Three Sunni political prisoners executed in Vakilabad Prison of Mashhad.