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JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Volker Türk "deeply troubled by the marked increase in executions in Iran in 2024"
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Saadi executed in Ahvaz on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Atin and Reza Seyedi executed in Mahabad on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Year-End Report on Women
31 women executed in 2024
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Why Does the United States Bother to Impose Death Sentences?
Editorial by Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
- JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khalil Alizahi e Amir Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Azadi executed in Hamedan on January 5
- JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Arzandeh and Mohammadreza Hosseinzadeh executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Alizahi (Sargolzahi) and Amir-Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA - ESOHR Year-End Report
345 executions in 2024
JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Bahmanyari execeted in Ganaveh on January 5
JANUARY 4, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramezan Taheri executed in Taybad on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valiollah Kamalpour executed in Semnan on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran News Update Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 997 in 2024
JANUARY 2, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on December 29 and January 2
Mostafa Shakeri, Khosrow Khodadadi, and Karim Bahmani
JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 1
Arshia …, Amin … + 1 Unk.
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shafi Mousavi executed in Malayer on January 1
JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Bandar Abbas
Heydat Ghasemi, Shahrokh Sabahpour, Ramzi Beigsowar + 2 Unk
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on January 1
Heydat Ghasemi and two unidentified Afghans
JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pezhman (Pejman) Masoudi Koushk executed in Yasuj on January 1
JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 1
Ali Vahdani, Hassan Vahdani, and Shahram Mahdavi
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Update: 10 executions in Karaj on January 1
Previous information spoke of 3, or 6 executions
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Moradi executed in Ahvaz on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrouz Mehrani executed in Gorgan on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Meysam Farhadi and Reza Bakhtiari executed in Kermanshah on January 1
JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 901 in 2024
- DECEMBER 31, 2024Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: 13 SOLDIERS TO HANG FOR MURDER, LOOTING, COWARDICE
A Congolese military tribunal on December 31, 2024 sentenced 13 soldiers to death on charges including murder, looting, and cowardice in what military authorities said was a drive to improve army discipline after territorial losses due to soldiers fleeing
- DECEMBER 31, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ORGAN HARVESTING IN NASARAWA
A Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Akwanga on December 31, 2024 sentenced Gambo Adamu to death by hanging for the murder of Hassan Ahmed, whose organs were harvested in the Akwanga Local Government Area of the state.
DECEMBER 31, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: FATHER-SON DUO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING RELATIVE IN 2014 LAND DISPUTE CASE
A Bareilly court on December 24, 2024 sentenced a father-son duo to death in connection with a decade-old murder case, also imposing a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each.
- DECEMBER 31, 2024DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yavar Abdali executed in Dezful on December 31