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DECEMBER 27, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: AT LEAST 581 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 32 EXECUTED IN FIRST 11 MONTHS OF 2018
Over 30 people were executed and nearly 600 death sentences were issued in Egypt in the first 11 months of 2018, according to a report issued on 22 December 2018 by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
- DECEMBER 24, 2018North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREA: FORTUNE TELLER EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
The North Korean authorities have recently focused on cracking down on “acts of superstition” leading to the execution of a fortune teller in the Chongjin and the arrest of other fortune tellers in Onsong and Hoeryong who are awaiting trial, the Daily NK
DECEMBER 24, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA BANK CHIEF HANDED DEATH SENTENCE WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
A Chinese court on 21 December 2018 sentenced the former chairman of Bank of Inner Mongolia, a private joint-stock lender, to death for corruption with a two-year reprieve, the official Xinhua news agency said, effectively meaning he will be jailed for li
DECEMBER 24, 2018South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN IN BOR
A High Court in Jonglei State on 18 December 2018 sentenced to death a man who was found guilty of killing two of his children, two months ago.
DECEMBER 24, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: ASIAN TO BE EXECUTED FOR KILLING COLLEAGUE
The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court sentenced an Asian to execution on charges of throttling his colleague to death with ghotra (cloth used by a community to form a turban out of the same), The Gulf Today reported on 18 December 2018.
- DECEMBER 24, 2018CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Outgoing governor Brown reopens the case of Kevin Cooper
USA - California. Outgoing governor Brown reopens the case of Kevin Cooper
DECEMBER 24, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYPakistani national beheaded in Mecca
24 December 2018: Manur Hussein Karan Ali executed for drugs trafficking
DECEMBER 22, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MAN WHO KILLED, RAPED PAKISTANI BOY
The Abu Dhabi Cassation Court on 22 December 2018 upheld the death sentence of a Pakistani man for raping and brutally murdering an 11-year-old boy.
- DECEMBER 21, 2018JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: COURT PASSES DEATH SENTENCE ON MAN FOR HIS MOTHER'S MURDER
The Criminal Court on 18 December 2018 sentenced a 29-year-old man to death after convicting him of murdering and decapitating his mother in Amman in November of 2016.
DECEMBER 21, 2018JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: OSAKA MAN GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR CHILD MURDERS
A court in Osaka on 19 December 2018 sentenced a man to death for the murders of a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.
DECEMBER 21, 2018SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES SUSPECTED GOVERNMENT MILITARY OFFICER
The firing squad of the Al-Shabaab militia group on 19 December 2018 publicly executed a suspected government military officer in Middle Shabelle’s Galboole village.
DECEMBER 21, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA EXECUTES PETITIONER WHO KILLED POLICE OFFICER BRINGING HIM HOME
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have executed a petitioner for killing a police officer who was forcibly escorting him home from a petitioning trip in the Chinese capital, Radio Free Asia reported on 20 December 2018.