For other years, see Worldwide Executions 2006-2025 Index.
Below are the monthly figures for worldwide executions in 2021.
(f) = female, (j) = juvenile, (p) = public
Executions in January 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for January 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 3 |
| China | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Iran | 36 |
| Iraq | 3 |
| Saudi Arabia | 5 |
47 men and 2 women were executed in January 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/01 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/01 | Iran | Hamid Ras Bala, Kabir Sa’ad Jahani and Muhammad Ali Arayesh | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 02/01 | Iran | Fereydoun Tavakoli | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/01 | Iran | Hassan Dehvari and Elias Qalandarzehi Omid Mahmoudzehi | Hanging | Terrorism murder |
| 03/01 | Iran | Hadi Hosseini Mirak | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/01 | Saudi Arabia | Salem bin Nasser bin Salem al-Karbi | Beheading | Murder |
| 08/01 | Iran | Farzad Nasser Jourshari | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/01 | Iran | Farzad Mohammad-Noureh and Mehdi Joushani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/01 | Iran | Majid Rigi and Khodadad Nahtani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/01 | Iran | Abdolhamid Mir Baluch Zehi | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 13/01 | Saudi Arabia | Adam Zain Issa Kuji | Beheading | Kidnapping & rape |
| 13/01 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed Abakar Othman Muhammad and Hutoon Bint Ali Ibn Abdul Wahid Majida (f) | Beheading | Murder |
| 13/01 | America | Lisa Montgomery (f) | Injection | Murder |
| 13/01 | Iran | Mehdi Feizi & Muharram Feizi | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/01 | Iran | Saber Khoshkar & Jama Daroo-Zehi | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/01 | America | Cory Johnson | Injection | Murder |
| 16/01 | America | Dustin Higgs | Injection | Murder |
| 16/01 | Iran | Reza Shirzadeh & Amir | Hanging | Murder |
| 16/01 | Iran | Shamsuddin Soleimani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/01 | Iran | Fateh Qaderinia | Hanging | Murder |
| 19/01 | Iran | Anwar Ali-Zehi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 20/01 | Iran | Younes Khanshini | Hanging | Murder |
| 21/01 | Iran | Hafez Abdolsattar | Hanging | Murder |
| 22/01 | Iran | Younes Jamshid Zehi and Shamsuddin Baji Zehi | Hanging | Murder |
| 23/01 | Iran | Mohammad Shakori | Hanging | Rape |
| 25/01 | Iran | Mehdi Ali Hosseini, Houshang Mohammadi and Ali Angazi | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/01 | Iraq | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 25/01 | Iran | Abdolraouf Kobdani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/01 | Iran | Anwar Naroui | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/01 | Iran | Ali Motayyeri | Hanging | Terrorist murders |
| 29/01 | Iran | Abas Ali Hosseini | Hanging | Murder |
| 29/01 | China | Lai Xiaomin | Injection | Corruption |
| 30/01 | Iran | Javid Dehghan Khald | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 30/01 | Egypt | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
Executions in February 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for February 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| Botswana | 2 |
| China | 3 |
| Egypt | 6 |
| Iran | 31 |
| Iraq | 6 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| South Sudan | 1 |
47 men and 6 women were executed in February 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 02/02 | China | Wang Shujin | Injection | Murder |
| 02/02 | China | Yang Guangyi | Injection | Child rape & murder |
| 02/02 | Iran | Jabbar Nemati | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/02 | Iran | Javid Dehghan | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 06/02 | Iran | Taher Hamel-Khoshkhou | Hanging | Murder |
| 08/02 | Botswana | Wedu Mosalagae & Kutlo Setima | Hanging | Murder |
| 08/02 | Iran | Saeed Naderi and 1 unnamed female | Hanging | Murder |
| 08/02 | China | Ma Chonghua | Injection | Murder |
| 09/02 | Iraq | 5 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 09/02 | Iraq | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/02 | Sudan | Eliza Aban Othu (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 10/02 | Iran | Taher Hamel Khoshkhoo | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/02 | Iran | Mohammad Brahui Jamaluddin Brahui | Hanging | Drugs Murder |
| 14/02 | Iran | Saeed Ali-Mohammadi | Hanging | Murder |
| 16/02 | Saudi Arabia | Abdul Rahman bin Hamid bin Muhammad Al-Gashmari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 16/02 | Iran | Bahavar Tanazi Mansour Ghazaq | Hanging | Murder |
| 16/02 | Iran | Ali Dadfari Mazandarani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 17/02 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Dhafer bin Manae al-Abas | Beheading | Murder |
| 17/02 | Iran | Zahra Ismaili (f), Musa Sedaghat, Mohammad Chezani +7 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 17/02 | Egypt | Mina Kha Najjar | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/02 | Iran | Mansour Ghazaq | Hanging | Murder |
| 23/02 | Iran | B. Ahmad Jafar Mansourbeigi | Hanging | Murder |
| 23/02 | Saudi Arabia | Marzouq bin Salem bin Qasim al-Huwaiti | Beheading | Murder |
| 25/02 | Iran | Javad Montazerian | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/02 | Saudi Arabia | Bashar Hatem Ali al-Odni | Beheading | Murder |
| 26/02 | Iran | Ahmad Araji | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/02 | Iran | Hamed Mostafaei | Hanging | Drugs |
| 27/02 | Egypt | Nahid Othman Rifai Abdel-Aal, 2 unnamed women & 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 28/02 | Iran | Mansour Ghazaq | Hanging | Murder |
| 28/02 | Iran | Jassem Kuwait Al-Haidari, Hussein Al-Silawi, Ali Al-Khazraji and Nasser Al-Maramdi | Hanging | Terrorism |
Executions in March 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for March 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| China | 1 |
| Egypt | 23 |
| Iran | 18 |
| Iraq | 3 |
| Saudi Arabia | 5 |
40 men and 10 women were executed in March 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/03 | Iran | Ahmad Samiei | Hanging | Murder |
| 01/03 | Egypt | Al-Safi Abdel Tawab | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/03 | Iran | Seyed Fattah Hosseini | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/03 | China | Fu Bailian | Injection | Murder |
| 02/03 | Egypt | 8 unnamed men and 3 unnamed women | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/03 | Iraq | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 04/03 | Iran | Farhad Abdullahnejad | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/03 | Iran | Ahmad Araji | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/03 | Iran | Ebrahim Hassani | Hanging | Murder |
| 08/03 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 08/03 | Iran | Asif Taghinejad | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/03 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Jaber bin Mohammed al-Shahrani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 13/03 | Iran | Maryam Karimi (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/03 | Iran | Nasser Valizadeh Nafiseh Pakmehr (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/03 | Iran | Hossein Akchin | Hanging | Murder |
| 15/03 | Iran | Arash Warsi Alireza Ghorbani | Hanging | Murder |
| 15/03 | Iran | Ruhollah Javidi Rad, Mohammad Baghsangani, Mohammad Hosseini, and Mohammad Watandoost | Hanging | Rape |
| 16/03 | Saudi Arabia | Mufreh bin Farhan bin Yahya al-Huraisi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/03 | Egypt | 6 unnamed men and 3 unnamed women | Hanging | Murder |
| 18/03 | Saudi Arabia | Khaled Al-Amin Muhammad Ahmad Taha Yaser bin Mohammed bin Ali Majrashi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 19/03 | Egypt | Mustafa Mahmoud Mohamed, and Nasreen Fawzi Suleiman Ali (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 19/03 | Egypt | Luahiz Muhammad Salameh Hafnawi (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 18/03 | Saudi Arabia | Saleh bin Salem bin Dhiyab al-Mesoudi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
Executions in April 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for April 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| Egypt | 25 |
| Iran | 23 |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 |
54 men were executed in April 2021
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/04 | Saudi Arabia | Muhammad Ismail Muhammad Suleiman & Maajab bin Hazam bin Salem al Ajmi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 04/04 | Iran | Sadiq Mahi, Ahmed Nematwand, and Mohammed Mahmoudi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 06/04 | Iran | Hojjat Ghaed | Hanging | Murder |
| 07/04 | Saudi Arabia | Khalid bin Ali bin Dhafer al-Ahmari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 08/04 | Iran | Yasser Daryaee Safar Rahimi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/04 | Iran | Bayazid Rashidi-Hashtiani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/04 | Iran | A.A. and K.H. | Hanging | Robbery/murder |
| 09/04 | Iran | Mahmoud Bayazid, Ali Mohammadzadeh, Arshad Heydari, and Hamid Najmi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 10/04 | Saudi Arabia | Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Yahya Akam, Shaher bin Isa bin Qasim Haqqawi, and Hamoud bin Ibrahim bin Ali Hazmi | Beheading (p) or shot? | High treason |
| 11/04 | Iran | Youssef Rashou Hashtian & Morteza Kabiri | Hanging | Murder |
| 12/04 | Iran | Arsalan Moradi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 12/04 | Iran | Mohsen Mahdavian Mehrdad Jalali and Ramezan Ali Shahroodi | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/04 | Iran | Mohammad Ghorban Karimi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/04 | Iran | Arsalan Zare Hossein Ramezani | Hanging | Murder |
| 15/04 | Iran | Sohrab Mesgari | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/04 | Iran | Habibollah Sheikh Hosseini | Hanging | Drugs |
| 26/04 | Egypt | 17 named men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 28/04 | Egypt | 8 named men | Hanging | Terrorism |
Executions in May 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for May 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Iran | 24 |
| Saudi Arabia | 5 |
29 men and 2 women were executed in May 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 09/05 | Egypt | Isaiah al-Maqari | Hanging | Murder |
| 15/05 | Iran | Ali Murad Zabiei | Hanging | Drugs |
| 15/05 | Iran | Behzad Adl | Hanging | Rape |
| 15/05 | Iran – announced 15/05 executed in last three months | Abdul Raouf, Abdolrahman Saberinia & Mehrshad Shahbakhsh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 16/05 | Iran | Jamal Mohammadi Amir Bayati | Hanging | Murder |
| 17/05 | Iran | Mehran Naroui | Hanging | Drugs |
| 17/05 | Saudi Arabia | Adel bin Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Zahrani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 19/05 | Iran | Qasim B. | Hanging | Rape |
| 19/05 | Iran | Younes Tutazahi and Abdullah Tutazahi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 19/05 | Saudi Arabia | Nayef bin Mafdhi bin Kadiran al-Dhafiri | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 19/05 | America – Texas | Quintin Jones | Lethal injection | Murder |
| 20/05 | Iran | Sajad A.T. | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/05 | Saudi Arabia | Oz al-Said Attiyah Moahmmed | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 23/05 | Iran | Kobra Fatemi (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 24/05 | Iran | Kianoosh Ali-Moradi and Ahmad Qodrati | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/05 | Iran | Javad Nakhaei, Mohammad Reza Herati, Reza Azarian, Ruhollah Rigi and Reza Asadi + 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/05 | Saudi Arabia | Mufid bin Said bin Saad al-Hazmi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 26/05 | Saudi Arabia | Hussein bin Hanaf bin Qasem Haqawi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 30/05 | Iran | Yousef Pirastavan and Shamsi Pirastavan (f) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 30/05 | Iran | Shahin Mirkhani | Hanging | Drugs |
Executions in June 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for June 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| Botswana | 1 |
| Egypt | 23 |
| Iran | 10 |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 |
| Somalia | 21 |
| Yemen | 3 |
654 men and 1 women were executed in June 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/06 | Saudi Arabia | Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Suwaidi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 02/06 | Iran | Ebrahim Ahmadi | Hanging | Murder |
| 07/06 | Iran | Shahin Mirkhani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/06 | Saudi Arabia | Walid Sami Al-Zuhairi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 09/06 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/06 | Botswana | Phemelo Botogeleng | Hanging | Murder |
| 15/06 | Saudi Arabia | Mustafa Hashem Issa Al-Darwish | Beheading (p) | Terrorism |
| 16/06 | Yemen | Ali Abdullah Hussein Al-Naami, Abdullah Ali al-Mukahali, and Mohammed Abdullah Arman | Shooting | Child murders |
| 16/06 | Yemen | Abdullah Ali al-Mukahali and Mohammed Abdullah Arman | Shooting | Rape & murder |
| 17/06 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed bin Menaji bin Ali Nahari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 17/06 | Bangladesh | Sirajul Islam | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/06 | Iran | Ramin Saadat Biglou | Hanging | Murder |
| 21/06 | Egypt | Ahmed Saeed Ibrahim Al-Sunbati + 7 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 21/06 | Iran | Habib Rezaei | Hanging | Murder |
| 24/06 | Saudi Arabia | Bassam bin Maqbal bin Madlul al-Ruwaili | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 25/06 | Iran | Azim Karimdadzehi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 26/06 | Iran | Abdul Hamid Ghanbarzehi & Hashem Torabi | Hanging | Murder |
| 27/06 | Egypt | 8 named men & Ayman Zakaria Abdel Al-Rahman (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 27/06 | Somalia – Puntland | 21 unnamed men | Shooting | Terrorism |
| 30/06 | Iran | Mohammad Taher Soleimani and Azim Karimzayi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 30/06 | Saudi Arabia | Hayil bin Zaal bin Mohammed al-Attawi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 30/06 | America – Texas | John Hummel | Injection | Murder |
| 30/06 | Egypt | 6 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
Executions in July 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for July 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Iran | 42 |
| Saudi Arabia | 10 |
| Somalia | 1 |
55 men were executed in July 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 03/07 | Iran | Nasser Azmoudeh and Shahriyar Amiri | Hanging | Drugs |
| 04/07 | Iran | Bahauddin Ghasemzadeh (j), Davood Ghasemzadeh and Anwar Abdollahi | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/07 | Iran | Edris Gargij & Mehdi-J | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/07 | Iran | Farhad Najafi & Ali Ahmadi | Hanging | Sodomy |
| 06/07 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/07 | Egypt | Moataz Mustafa Hassan | Hanging | Terrorist murder |
| 07/07 | Saudi Arabia | Hamed bin Awadh bin Mohammed Abih | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 07/07 | Iran | Faizollah Ahmadzadeh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 08/07 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Mubarak Daalah and Fuad bin Nawah bin Mohammed bin Abdullah | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 10/07 | Iran | Amir Jalilifar & Akbar Jalilifar (brothers) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 10/07 | Iran | Mehdi Ghanbari | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/07 | Iran | Hassan Nemati and Mohammad Hassan | Hanging | Murder |
| 12/07 | Saudi Arabia | Aziz bin Jaza bin Abdullah Al-Harbi and Faisal bin Yahya bin Said al-Qahtani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 12/07 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/07 | Saudi Arabia | Khaled bin Ali bin Jaruh al-Ashkhaei | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 13/07 | Iran | Rauf Rezaeifar, Hashem Bavarmand and Mohammad Farokhi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 13/07 | Iran | Farzan Masoumzadeh and Omid Yari | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/07 | Iran | Afshin Gheidar | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/07 | Iran | Mohammad Abdolrahim | Hanging | Murder |
| 15/07 | Somalia | Hussein Adan Ali | Shooting | Child rape |
| 15/07 | Bangladesh | Asaduzzaman Panir | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 18/07 | Iran | Babak Aslani, Mohsen Esfahani and Hossein Mohammadi | Hanging | Murder |
| 18/07 | Iran | Shahbaz Jadidi | Hanging | Murder |
| 18/07 | Iran | Ali Bandehparvizi, Javad Karimian, Nasir Ahmad Baluch and Mehrdad Golshani. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 20/07 | Iran | Hossein Abdullahzadeh | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/07 | Iran | Bakhtiar Salemi, Sohrab Heydari and Amir Heydari & Ebrahim Shehbakhsh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 26/07 | Saudi Arabia | Mishal bin Nasser bin Shaye Al-Dossary | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 27/07 | Iran | Mohammed Shawaiei Ahmed Omar | Hanging | Drugs |
| 29/07 | Saudi Arabia | Rashed bin Maradhi bin Amer al-Dosari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 29/07 | Saudi Arabia | Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Ali Al-Rifa’i | Beheading (p) | Terrorism |
| 30/07 | Iran | Esmail Fatehi, Mansour Mohammadi and Mozafar | Hanging | Drugs |
Executions in August 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for August 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Iran | 21 |
| Iraq | 6 |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 |
34 men were executed in August 2021
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/08 | Iran | Hassan and Ali | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/08 | Iran | Sepehr Abbasnejad, Eskandar Zare and Hamzeh Rezaei | Hanging | Drugs |
| 03/08 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed bin Said bin Ali al-Janabi | Beheading (p) | Rebellion |
| 04/08 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed Mohammed Awdh al-Olaimi and Nabil Hussein Yahya al-Faqih | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 05/08 | Iran | Farzad Afsardeh | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/08 | Iran | Arsalan Karimi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 08/08 | Iran | Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi and Majid Golebacheh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 08/08 | Iran | Zabihullah Hormozi and Seyyed Ismail Kordtamini | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/08 | Iran | Afshar Minayi | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/08 | Iran | Ebrahim Ghanbarzehi, Nabi Notizehi and Zabiollah Hormozi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/08 | Iran | Afshar Minaei and Massoud Esfandiari | Hanging | Murder |
| 10/08 | Iran | Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 11/08 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 17/08 | Saudi Arabia | Ibrahim bin Ahmed bin Ali Al Hussein | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/08 | Egypt | R. | Hanging | Murder |
| 19/08 | Saudi Arabia | Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Saad Al-Maliki | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 24/08 | Iran | Amir Ali Hosseini | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/08 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed Salim Ahmed al-Sharari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 27/08 | Iran | Mansour Kahrazehi | Hanging | Murder |
| 30/08 | Iraq | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 30/08 | Iraq | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
Executions in September 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for September 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Iran | 46 |
| Saudi Arabia | 7 |
| Syria | 11 |
| Yemen | 13 |
74 men and 5 women were executed in September 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/09 | Iran | Mohammad Sadeghzadeh | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/09 | Iran | Yasin Rezaeipour | Hanging | Drugs |
| 03/09 | Egypt | Rasha (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| c 03/09 | Iran | Rasoul Akrami, Omid Keshtkar, Meysam Atefifard and Hadi Razi | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/09 | Saudi Arabia | Jarab bin Mussalach bin Dashan al-Qahtani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 05/09 | Iran | Keramat | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/09 | Yemen | Abdullah Hussein Nasser al-Sibai, Walid Saeed Saghir al-Amiri, Muhammad Abd al-Wahed Muhammad al-Hamidi, and Daleel al-Shuai Muhammad al-Jarba | Shooting | Murder |
| 06/09 | Saudi Arabia | Adnan bin Mustafa al-Sharfa | Beheading (p) | Terrorism |
| c 08/09 | Iran | Meysam Atefard and Hadi Razi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 08/09 | Iran | Ali Mardan Boland Gerami | Hanging | Murder |
| 08/09 | Iran | Ali Murad & Hibat Roozbi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/09 | Iran | 3 unnamed men and 3 unnamed women (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/09 | Iran | Abdul Rahim Khani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/09 | Iran | Jafar Ismail Soltanabadi | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/09 | Iran | Adham Maksani | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/09 | Iran | Hossein Gholampour | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/09 | Saudi Arabia | Nasher bin Ali bin Hadi al-Ondi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 14/09 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed Saleh Hassan Atiq and Hassan bin Jarid bin Hassan al-Shamri | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 15/09 | Iran | Farshid Rakhshani Rad | Hanging | Drugs |
| 15/09 | Saudi Arabia | Essam Mohamed Hilal Ali | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/09 | Yemen | Ali Ali Ibrahim Al-Quzi, Abdul-Malik Ahmed Muhammad Hamid, Muhammad Khaled Ali Haig, Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Al-Quzi, Muhammad Yahya Muhammad Noah, Ibrahim Muhammad Abdullah Aqel, Muhammad Muhammad Ali Al-Mashkhari, Abdulaziz Ali Muhammad Al-Aswad, Moaz Abdul Rahman Abdullah Abbas. (9 men) | Shooting | Murder |
| 20/09 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Drugs |
| 21/09 | Iran | Abed Khodaverdi and Arshad Jodat | Hanging | Drugs |
| 21/09 | Syria | 10 men and 1 woman (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 22/09 | Iran | Ahmad Forouhid and Mostafa Shafiei | Hanging | Murder |
| 23/09 | Iran | Mohammad Sadeghi and 7 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/08 | Iran | Vahab Samadi | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/08 | Iran | Sohrab Naji | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/09 | America – Texas | Rick Rhoades | Injection | Murder |
| 28/09 | Iran | Abbas Gholi Salehi, Mohammad Barahui and Hamid Shahsnaei | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/09 | Iran | Yasin Abdullahi | Hanging | Murder |
| 28/09 | Saudi Arabia | Naji bin Mubarak bin Hamid al-Sharari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 29/08 | Iran | Farhad Salehi-Jabehdar Afshar Fathi | Hanging | Rape Murder |
| 30/09 | Iran | Mashallah Sabzi | Hanging | Murder |
Executions in October 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for October 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 2 |
| Bangladesh | 2 |
| China | 1 |
| Iran | 33 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 |
| Syria | 26 |
66 men and 1 woman were executed in October 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/10 | Iran | Rasul Akrami, Omid Keshtkar, Meysam Ateffard & Hadi Razi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 02/10 | Iran | Hossein Hedayati | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/10 | Iran | Hussein and Ramin Dadzadeh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 04/10 | Bangladesh | Mintu and Aziz | Hanging | Murder and rape |
| 05/10 | Saudi Arabia | Muslim bin Muhammad al-Muhsin | Beheading (p) | Terrorism |
| 05/10 | America – Missouri | Ernest Johnson | Injection | Murder |
| 10/10 | Iran | Ebrahim Rakhshani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 11/10 | Iran | Omid Sarani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 11/10 | Iran | Esmail Ghassabi, Mohammad Latifi and 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/10 | Iran | Hossein Amiri, Hossein Shamsi, Ali Mokhtari, and Yavar Dehzadeh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 12/10 | Iran | Yousef Seifali | Hanging | Drugs |
| 13/10 | Iran | Ali Omar Amrollahi and 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/10 | Iran | Hamed Jafarzadeh, Soheil Hojjatofar and Younes | Hanging | Drugs |
| 17/10 | Syria | Farouk Omar Afouf and Wael Youssef Ghalayini | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 17/10 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah bin Ali bin Mohammed al-Zubaidi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/10 | Iran | Musa Shahbakhsh | Hanging | Murder |
| 18/10 | Iran | Mousa Shehbakhsh and Saeed Sadeghi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/10 | Iran | Ali Mohammad Mohammadi & Islam Mohammadi | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/10 | Syria | 24 unnamed persons | Hanging | Terroristic arson |
| 20/10 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Drugs |
| 21/10 | Iran | Naz Naz Ghanbarzehi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 21/10 | America – Alabama | Willie B. Smith | Injection | Murder |
| 25/10 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/10 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah bin Jaber bin Asaad Al-Maliki | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 25/10 | America – Oklahoma | John Marion Grant | Injection | Murder |
| 26/10 | Iran | Susan Rezaeipour (f) & 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 29/10 | China | Wu Chi-man | Injection | Drugs |
Executions in November 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for November 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Iran | 29 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| Yemen | 1 |
33 men and 2 women were executed in November 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/11 | Saudi Arabia | Maki bin Kazem Al Obaid | Beheading (p) | Terrorism |
| 02/11 | Iran | Mohammad Raisi | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/11 | Iran | Yousef Sifali | Hanging | Drugs |
| 03/11 | Iran | Saeed, Abdullah & Manouchehr Kazemi Varmaleh | Hanging | Murder |
| 04/11 | Iran | Javad Qaljaei | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/11 | Iran | Yaser Gargij | Hanging | Drugs |
| 06/11 | Yemen | 1 unnamed man | Shooting | Murder |
| 10/11 | Iran | Ahmad Bahrami | Hanging | Murder |
| 10/11 | Saudi Arabia | Udah bin Mohammed | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 13/11 | Iran | Sadollah Kharkoohi, Obaidullah Kharkoohi, Mahboub Rakhshani and Ahmad Makran Doost | Hanging | Drugs |
| 16/11 | Saudi Arabia | Khaled Ali Mahdi al-Sudi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 17/11 | America – Mississippi | David Neal Cox | Injection | Murder |
| 17/11 | Iran | Rahmat Fereydoni, Marouf Gholipour & Sobhan Mollai | Hanging | Murder |
| 17/11 | Iran | Hossein Ashtarak | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/11 | Iran | Mostafa Pourahmad and Mojtaba Bagheri | Hanging | Murder |
| 18/11 | Iran | Shamsuddin Qaljaei | Hanging | Drugs |
| 21/11 | Saudi Arabia | Khaled bin Ahmned bin Mohammed al-Mashaari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 23/11 | Iran | Siavash Ardashiri and his wife (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 24/11 | Iran | Arman Abdolali (j) & Mohammad Safari | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/11 | Iran | Abdul Sattar Shahbakhsh and Khan Mohammad Rahmat Zehi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/11 | Iran | Heidar Ghaljayi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/11 | Iran | Maryam Khakpour (f) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 27/11 | Iran | Majid Sargolzaei | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/11 | Iran | Ebrahim Narouyi | Hanging | Drugs |
Executions in December 2021
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for December 2021.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Iran | 40 |
| Iraq | 3 |
| Japan | 3 |
42 men and 5 women were executed in December 2021.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 02/12 | Saudi Arabia | Sayed Ahmed Al-Rashidi and Syed Yasser Ali | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| c05/12 | Iran | Mohammad Alizadeh Mehdi Jahani | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/12 | Iran | Ali Akbar Mohammadi | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/12 | Iran | Mohammad Reza Mazkoohi & Ahmad Tavakoli | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/12 | Iran | Saeed Dehmardeh, Gholam Brahu, Khalid Shahbakhsh and 3 unnamed women (f) | Hanging | Drugs Unknown |
| 09/12 | America – Oklahoma | Bigler Stouffer II | Injection | Murder |
| 11/12 | Iran | Sivan Hosseini | Hanging | Murder |
| 12/12 | Iran | Abdul Salam Brahui | Hanging | Drugs |
| 12/12 | Iran | Bakhtiar Sarmadi and Hossein Heidarzadeh | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/12 | Iraq | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 15/12 | Iran | Ali Nahtani | Hanging | Drugs |
| 15/12 | Iran | Hamed Mousavi, Kourosh Mazaheri, Davood, 1 unnamed man and Masoumeh Zarei (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 18/12 | Iran | Hadi Shahriari | Hanging | Armed robbery |
| 19/12 | Iran | Hamed Darvish, Naeim Shehbakhsh and Abdolkhalegh Salarzehi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 19/12 | Iran | Haidar Ghorbani | Hanging | Complicity to murder |
| 19/12 | Iran | Fatemeh Aslani (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/12 | Japan | Yasutaka Fujishiro, Tomoaki Takanezawa & Mitsunori Onogawa | Hanging | Murder |
| c20/12 | Iran | Hamed | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/12 | Iran | Hassan Mirkarami and Ardavan Fallahvand | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/12 | Iran | Ali Imani | Hanging | Murder |
| 27/12 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed Abdullah Ahmed Al-Saddam | Beheading (p) | Terrorism |
| 27/12 | Iran | Ahmad Nahtani, Alireza Moradi and 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Drugs |
| 29/12 | Iran | Amin Alipanahi | Hanging | Murder |
| 30/12 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Rape |
| 31/12 | Iran | Hossein Abbaszadeh, Hamdollah Alemi, Faizullah Ghorbani and Moghaddam Alizadeh | Hanging | Murder |
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