Four of the nine men convicted for the 2013 serial blasts at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan were sentenced to death by a Patna court on 1st November 2021.

A court in Khulna on 31 October 2021 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2020.

A Peshawar court on 30 October 2021 convicted a man and his son for killing four sisters six years ago over a property dispute and sentenced them to death along with the payment of Rs2 million compensation each to the legal heirs of the women.

Enrique Mora traveled to Iran on October 14

301 executions since the beginning of the year

The 122nd woman executed since 2013

A Hong Kong man who suffered from hallucinations and other mental health problems has been executed in mainland China where he was sentenced to death in 2017 for drug trafficking.

The Islamist movement Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip announced on 28 October 2021 it had sentenced six Palestinian "informants" to death for collaborating with Israel.

He convulsed and vomited during execution

Updated to April 1, 2021

A young Saudi man was released from prison on 27 October 2021 after spending nearly a decade behind bars in a case that drew international scrutiny because until recently he’d been facing a possible death sentence for protest-related crimes committed as a minor.