Death penalty

NORTH KOREA: MAN EXECUTED FOR DISTRIBUTING K-POP, REPORT FROM DEFECTORS SHOWS

A 22-year-old North Korean was publicly executed in 2022 for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, a new report claims.

SAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED AFTER BEING SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior issued a statement on July 13, 2024 informing citizens and residents of the execution of a retribution death sentence against an offender in the Eastern Province.

IRAQI COURT SENTENCES WIDOW OF FORMER ISIS LEADER AL-BAGHDADI TO DEATH

An Iraqi court on July 10, 2024 sentenced the widow of former longtime Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death for enslaving kidnapped Yazidi women, state media reported.

PAKISTAN: YOUNG CHRISTIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY

The Anti-Terrorism Court in Sahiwal has sentenced the young Christian Ehsan Shan to death for allegedly sharing a blasphemous post on social media, considered the cause of the violence in Jaranwala on August 16, 2023.

BANGLADESH: SIX TO BE HANGED IN MURDER CASE IN CUMILLA

A Cumilla court has sentenced six people to death and 10 others to life term imprisonment for killing a man named Nurul Haque over land dispute in Brahmanpara upazila of the district in 2011.

USA - Florida. Julio Rivera sentenced to death

MALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT COMMUTES MAN'S DEATH SENTENCE TO 38 YEARS JAIL FOR MURDERING TRANSVESTITE

A former scrap metal dealer’s death sentence for killing a transvestite 15 years ago has been commuted to 38 years in jail by the Federal Court, Bernama reported on July 4, 2024.

IRAQ: ISIS SUSPECT SENTENCED TO DEATH

An Iraqi court on July 9, 2024 handed a death sentence to a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) member in Salahaddin province, state media reported.

PAKISTAN: TWO MURDER CONVICTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DIFFERENT MURDER CASES

An Attock court has awarded capital punishment to two convicts on charges of killing two persons in two different murder cases registered against them in Jand and Bassal Police stations respectively, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported on July 3, 20

USA - California. Alexis Daniel Rosas sentenced to death

USA - Texas. Supplier of Execution Drugs Has Multiple DEA Violations

"Rite Away"

EGYPT: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR OPERATIONS SUPPORTING ‘TERRORIST’ MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

A court sentenced nine people to death by hanging on July 6, 2024 as part of its verdict on 43 defendants in total accused of affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.

CÔTE D’IVOIRE ACCEDES TO THE SECOND OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE ICCPR

Côte d’Ivoire has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which is the UN treaty aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, on 3 May 2024.

D R CONGO: TWO MORE SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FLEEING BATTLE

Two more solders have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after they fled battles in conflict-torn North Kivu province, a military court said on July 5, 2024

BANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH, 10 LIFE SENTENCES FOR 2012 MURDER OF BRAHMANBARIA AL LEADER IQBAL AZAD

A tribunal has sentenced four people to death and 10 to life in prison for the 2012 murder of Sarail Upazila Awami League leader Iqbal Azad in Brahmanbaria.

IRAN - Mohammad Ghorbani executed in Qazvin on July 9

JAPAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER-ROBBERY

A 39-year-old man was sentenced to death on July 2, 2024 for murdering an elderly woman and her son and robbing them at her residence in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in 2020.

MALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR INDONESIAN CLEANER’S MURDERER COMMUTED TO 35 YEARS JAIL

The Court of Appeal of Putrajaya on June 24, 2024 commuted the death sentence imposed on a 41-year-old man to 35 years in jail for murdering an Indonesian house cleaner in 2017 after she allegedly badmouthed him.

DR CONGO: 25 SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FLEEING BATTLE

Twenty-five soldiers have been sentenced to death by a military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo for fleeing battles against M23 rebels and theft, their lawyer and an army spokesman said on July 4, 2024.

IRAN - Mojtaba Karami executed in Shiraz on July 7

IRAN - Mostafa Hosseini and Hatam Shahidi Executed in Gorgan on July 7

SWEDEN SAYS THREE CITIZENS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCES IN IRAQ OVER SHOOTING

Three Swedish citizens have been sentenced to death in Iraq over their involvement in a shooting and a fourth may also face the same punishment over a separate crime, the Swedish foreign ministry said on July 4, 2024.

IRAN - Ali Ezati (Ezzati) Executed in Zanjan on July 6

IRAN - Urgent Action for Sharifeh Mohammadi

Kurdish labor activist sentenced to death

NIGERIA: FIVE TO DIE BY HANGING FOR HERDER’S KILLING IN OSUN

Five men standing trial for the abduction and murder of a Fulani herder, Ibrahim Adamu, who until his death was selling cows at Owode-Ede, Osun State, were on July 2, 2024 sentenced to death by hanging by an Osun State High Court.

IRAN - Sharifeh Mohammadi Sentenced to Death

PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE IN BOMBING CASE

Two men on July 1, 2024 were sentenced to death and three times life imprisonment in the Ganjmandi police station bomb blast case by verdict of Judge Malik Ijaz Asif of the Special Anti-Terrorism Court of Rawalpindi.

IRAQ: ANOTHER SWEDISH CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH

Another Swedish citizen has been sentenced to death in Iraq by a court decision, Report News Agency informed on July 2, 2024 referring to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper citing the press service of the Swedish Foreign Ministry.

THAILAND: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST FORMER DEPUTY MINISTER BANYIN

The Supreme Court on June 27, 2024 upheld the death sentence issued against former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn by the lower courts for premeditated murder of a construction businessman back in 2015.