A convicted killer was “pardoned” by the Saudi father of his victim on 24 May 2021 morning, minutes before he was due to be executed.

In late April, North Korean authorities publicly executed a man living in Wonsan (Gangwon Province) who illegally sold CDs and USBs filled with South Korean movies, dramas, and music videos.

Arizona plans to use hydrogen cyanide, the gas used by the Nazis at Auschwitz

Probably hanged on May 25, not on April 24

Zimbabwe’s president on 25 May 2021 unveiled a towering bronze statue in the centre of Harare, the capital, honouring a 19th-century black anti-colonialist heroine who was hanged for leading a rebellion against white occupation.

On narcotic related charges

An Egyptian court has sentenced a local man to death after convicting him of fatally stabbing his younger brother, Gulf News reported on 26 May 2021.

Baluch men sentenced on drug-related charges

A Nigerian man was sentenced to death on 25 May 2021 for smuggling nearly six kilos of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam.

A Taiwanese court on 26 May 2021 sentenced a man to death for killing a scooter driver in a random knife attack.

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court on 24 May 2021 upheld the verdict issued by a criminal court in Dammam in September 2020, awarding the death penalty to a Saudi woman known in the media as the “Dammam kidnapper,” and jail terms for three other defendants, local media reported.

The state holds 1/3 of death row detainees of US