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JUNE 30, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA CONVICTS 99% OF DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL TRIALS. REVERSING A CONVICTION IS HARD
China is trying to reduce the number of wrongful convictions in its legal system. One man's more than two decades-long fight on death row shows why that's so difficult.
JUNE 28, 2024SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad-Reza Jalali on Fourth Day of Hunger Strike
JUNE 27, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Richard Rojem, 66, White, was executed
JUNE 27, 2024DelawareDEATH PENALTYUSA - Delaware. Senate passes abolition of death penalty
HB 70 goes to Governor
JUNE 27, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ysrael Granda sentenced to death
JUNE 26, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BURNING WIFE ALIVE
Faisalabad Additional Sessions Judge Abul Hassnat sentenced a man to death for burning his wife alive two years ago in Raza Abad police limits, The Nation reported on June 25, 2024.
JUNE 26, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF FORMER BUSINESSMAN FOR MURDER OF UUM GRADUATE 18 YEARS AGO
The Federal Court in Putrajaya on May 29, 2024 upheld the death sentence of a former businessman for the murder of a female marketing executive 18 years ago.
JUNE 26, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Ramiro Gonzales, 41, Hispanic, was executed
JUNE 26, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jury recommends death penalty for Zephen Xaver
JUNE 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Rahimi (Rakhshani) executed in Qaen on June 26
JUNE 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Idris Áli sentenced to death
Charged with "espionage for Israel."
JUNE 26, 2024TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. New Death Penalty Law Going Into Effect On July 1st
Death Penalty for Child Rapists (HB1663)
JUNE 25, 2024TaiwanDEATH PENALTYCHINA THREATENS DEATH PENALTY FOR 'DIEHARD' TAIWAN SEPARATISTS
China on June 21, 2024 threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts have no jurisdiction on the democratically governed island.
JUNE 24, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Judge sentences Bessman Okafor to death
JUNE 23, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jury Recommends Death Penalty for Wade Wilson
JUNE 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Supreme Court Overturns Rapper Toomaj Salehi's Death Sentence
JUNE 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nategh Hosseini executed in Qazvin on June 22
In front of his 7-year-old son
JUNE 21, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. David Roeder added with number 199 to the
The Death Penalty Information Center's exonerations' database
JUNE 20, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH IN JIGAWA
The Jigawa State High Court sitting in Birnin Kudu on June 14, 2024 sentenced two persons to death for conspiring and killing Yakubu Ibrahim and dumping his dead body by the roadside.
JUNE 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javaid Rehman’s New Report on the Massacre of Political Prisoners in the ‘80s
JUNE 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN Secretary-General’s report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
(A/HRC/56/22)
JUNE 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Law enforcement forces kill 18-year-old girl Raziyeh Rahmani
JUNE 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Additional Year in Prison
JUNE 19, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: WOMAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR STABBING MOTHER-IN-LAW 90 TIMES
A local court in Madhya Pradesh has awarded the death sentence to a 24-year-old woman for attacking her mother-in-law with an iron pan and then striking her with a sickle ninety times, killing her instantly, in 2022.
JUNE 19, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Kerry Max Cook exonerated
198th person exonerated (since 1973) after being sentenced to death
JUNE 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER IN NARAIL
A court in Narail on June 12, 2024 sentenced three people to death for killing a man in Lohagara upazila of the district in 2018.
JUNE 18, 2024DelawareDEATH PENALTYUSA - Delaware. House passes bill to eliminate death penalty in Delaware
HB 70
JUNE 18, 2024SwedenDEATH PENALTYSWEDEN SUMMONS IRAQI DIPLOMAT TO PROTEST DEATH PENALTIES REPORTEDLY HANDED TO 2 SWEDES
Sweden's Foreign Ministry said officials summoned the Iraqi chargé d’affaires on June 14, 2024 to protest against death sentences handed down to Swedes in Iraq.
JUNE 17, 2024SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranians in Stockholm Rally Against Release of War Criminal Hamid Nouri
JUNE 17, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: IN RECENT WEEKS MORE THAN 60 PEOPLE EXECUTED
At least 63 people have been executed in Nasiriyah Central Prison in recent weeks alone. Human rights groups accuse the judiciary and executive authorities of abusing detainees and coercing them into making false confessions to justify the imposition of t