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NOVEMBER 15, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Judge Arturo Nelson Declares Melissa Lucio to be “Actually Innocent,”
Recommends Texas CCA Overturn Conviction and Death Sentence
NOVEMBER 14, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 3 CHILD RAPISTS EXECUTED
Three convicted child sex offenders were executed in China on November 13, 2024, according to an official statement from the Supreme People's Court, the country's highest court.
NOVEMBER 14, 2024AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY EXECUTE MAN ACCUSED OF MURDER
The Taliban authorities publicly executed a man accused of murder in Paktia province, eastern Afghanistan, on November 13, 2024, marking the sixth public execution since their return to power in the country.
NOVEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Kardel executed in Amol on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2024North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. The costs of death penalty
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Alizadeh executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 13
He was previously hanged for 28 seconds before being resuscitated
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men sentenced to death
In the “Ekbatan Case”
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 woman, 6 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 13
Unk woman + Khaled Tajik, Ahmad Alizadeh, Saman Bozorgi, Hamzeh Tarkashvand, Jafar Rastgar, Mohsen Moradi
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Shamipour Zardkhaneh and Ali Abedini executed in Jiroft (or Tabriz) on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Sheikh Kanlu Milan executed in Urmia (or Salmas) on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghiam Safizadeh executed in Jiroft on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Activist Kianoosh Sanjari took his own life
In Tehran on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: CHARFORD COURT MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2009 OXFORD STREET MURDER
A Charford Court man has been convicted of the 2009 murder of Michael “Boy Boy” Mader in Port of Spain.
NOVEMBER 13, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Gregory Newson sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 13, 2024AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS MAN IN GHAZNI
The Taliban on November 11, 2024 publicly flogged a man in Ghazni province, southeastern Afghanistan, on charges of “moral corruption.”
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 13
Fathollah Rashidi, Mehdi Sharif, and Hossein Faramarzi
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Sharif and Hossein Faramarzi executed in Kashan on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fathollah Rashidi executed in Shiraz on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 more people executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on 13 November
Jafar Rahsepari, Iraj Ahadi, Sajad Shoja
- NOVEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Zakaria Alizehi executed in Zahedan on November 12
NOVEMBER 12, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BOY’S RAPE, MURDER CASE
A military court has sentenced a soldier to death in a case pertaining to rape and murder of a shepherd boy in Chhore, Dawn reported on November 9, 2024.
NOVEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ali Salamat publicly executed in Hamedan on November 12
NOVEMBER 12, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KARNATAKA COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO THREE MEN IN RAPE AND MURDER CASE OF AN 8-YEAR-OLD
A Mangaluru court on November 7, 2024 awarded death sentences to three men after finding them guilty of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl.
NOVEMBER 12, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Alexis Daniel Rosas formally sentenced to death
By Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Gerard
NOVEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 42nd week of “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign
- NOVEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Guantanamo. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeals plea
For the September 11 defendants
- NOVEMBER 11, 2024Burkina FasoDEATH PENALTY
BURKINA WANTS TO REINSTATE DEATH PENALTY: GOVERNMENT SOURCE
Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told AFP on November 9, 2024.
NOVEMBER 11, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING TEEN IN KISHOREGANJ
A Kishoreganj court on November 6, 2024 sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment for the murder of a teenager over a mobile phone at Pakundia upazila in 2008.
- NOVEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Jahanian and Javad Dolabi executed in Karaj (Central) on November 11
NOVEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump wants to expand death penalty
For child rapists, immigrants who kill U.S. citizens, human traffickers and drug dealers