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DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Shamsollahi executed in Hamedan on December 18
- DECEMBER 17, 2024United NationsDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY. HANDS OFF CAIN, ANOTHER STEP TOWARD WORLDWIDE ABOLITION
The United Nations General Assembly has just passed its 10th Resolution for a universal moratorium on executions.
DECEMBER 17, 2024AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG THREE INDIVIDUALS FOR ‘SODOMY’
Taliban authorities have publicly flogged three Individuals for “sodomy” in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, amid a recent surge in corporal punishment.
DECEMBER 17, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR CORRUPTION-RELATED CRIMES
Li Jianping, a former official in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was executed on December 17, 2024.
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN 71st Resolution Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Violations, Targeted Repression of Women
DECEMBER 17, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Lawmakers issue new subpoena for Robert Roberson's testimony
- DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jamal Asgarabadi executed in Sari on December 17
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 3 men executed in Sari on December 17
- DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Mohammadi Khiareh at Imminent Risk of Execution
Kurdish political prisoner
DECEMBER 16, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 100 KG OF DRUGS
A Vietnamese-Canadian man, along with three accomplices, was sentenced to death on December 16, 2024 for trafficking over 100 kg of drugs into Vietnam.
DECEMBER 16, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Judge Angela Cowden formally sentenced Zephen Xaver to five death sentences
DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Seyedi Bukani executed in Miandoab on December 16
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghorban Razi and Mohammad Kasrani executed in Tabriz on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Mirzapour executed in Gorgan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Men Executed in Zahedan on December 15
Mohammad Vazir Roudini, Yaghoub Barahouyi Moghaddam, Elias Tardast and Alireza Galebacheh
DECEMBER 15, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: SENATE APPROVES BILL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe’s Senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, a key step in scrapping a law last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago.
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men + 1 woman executed in Yazd on December 15
Mohammad Ali Kharkouhi, Reza Kharkouhi, Abdolbaset Toutazehi, Abdolnasser Toutazehi, Ne’matollah Toutazehi, Salah Rahimi + unidentified woman
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Molakazemi executed in Semnan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Morad Dehghani Executed in Nahavand on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 more executions in Yazd on December 15
Karim Eslami and Najaf Rahmani
- DECEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Ebrahimi Geravand executed in Malayer on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Koulivand executed in Arak on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Basirat and Ali Akbar Gharib Sarduiyee executed in Roudbar on December 9 and 14
- DECEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolkarim Shokati Timouri executed in Mashhad on December 12
DECEMBER 13, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people
For non-violent crimes
- DECEMBER 12, 2024MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO TO BACK UN RESOLUTION FOR A UNIVERSAL MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi on December 9, 2024 said Morocco will vote in favor of the tenth United Nations resolution on a moratorium on the application of the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 12, 2024Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
POPE CALLS FOR DEBT FORGIVENESS, ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Pope Francis called for debt relief for the poor countries of the South of the globe and the universal abolition of the death penalty in his message for World Peace Day 2025, which takes place on January 1.
- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Khorami and Kheirollah Amiri executed in Shiraz on December 12
- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahrokh Fahimi executed in Neishabur Prison on December 12
- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajjad Azizi and Ebrahim Valizadeh executed in Miandoab on December 12