A 12 Year Analysis
Campaign launched by Sir Richard Branson
Who has been on death row since 2004
Sierra Leone on 8 October 2021 formally abolished the death penalty, becoming the 23rd African country to repeal capital punishment.
A Khulna court on 8 October 2021 awarded the death penalty unto a man in a 2017 narcotics case filed over the recovery of contraband cocaine worth around Tk22 crore.
Based on Qassameh Testimony
Al-Shabaab militants executed two men in a public square on 5 October 2021 in the Lower Jubba's Jamame district, accusing one of the men of being a sorcerer and the other a Somali government soldier.
The Ajman Criminal Court on 4 October 2021 sentenced five Asians to death for the premeditated murder of an Asian businessman and for stealing Dh109,000 from his apartment in Ajman.
Despite pleas for clemency for intellectual disability
The Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has granted state pardons to 18 convicts in celebration of Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary.
Two death-row convicts in a case filed for killing two women after raping them in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district were executed on 4 October 2001 night.
The Saviour’s Church in Lahore played host to a street play highlighting the plight of families of death row prisoners, kick-starting the awareness campaign for the World Day Against the Death Penalty observed every Oct. 10.
