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JUNE 17, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MADRAS HC ACQUITS ALL ACCUSED IN DR SUBBIAH MURDER CASE
The Madras high court on June 14, 2024 set aside the conviction as well as death sentence imposed on seven people and life sentences imposed on two more in the 2013 murder case of neurosurgeon SD Subbiah near Billroth Hospital in Chennai.
JUNE 17, 2024KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR USING DRUGS TO OVERPOWER AND VIOLENTLY ROB VICTIMS
A man was sentenced to death on June 14, 2024 in Kenya after being found guilty of robbery with violence and using overpowering drugs to stupefy his victims.
JUNE 16, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Activists ask Biden to commute all federal death sentences
Trump could execute 40 prisoners in second term 'bloodbath'
JUNE 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khamenei pardons, reduces sentences of 2,654 inmates
But no death row prisoners
JUNE 15, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FOUR TO DIE BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY, MURDER IN EKITI
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, on June 13, 2024 sentenced four persons to death by hanging for armed robbery, murder and conspiracy.
JUNE 15, 2024SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden released Hamid Noury
Convicted of war crimes
JUNE 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Masoudian executed in Zanjan on June 15
JUNE 13, 2024LibyaDEATH PENALTYLIBYA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER CASE
The Misrata Criminal Court has sentenced one person to death and imprisoned three others in the case of the murder of citizen Abdul Rahman Ali Ishteiwi, Libya Observer reported on June 13, 2024.
JUNE 13, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: PLATEAU, OGUN, KADUNA GOVS PARDON 164 PRISONERS
In commemoration of Democracy Day on June 12, 2024, the Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, granted pardon to 13 inmates serving various jail terms in the state.
JUNE 13, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Markas Fishburne sentenced to death
30, Black
JUNE 12, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 2 BROTHERS GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, BURNING MINOR GIRL IN RAJASTHAN
Two men convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in August last year - by burning her alive in a coal furnace - were sentenced to death on May 18, 2024 by a special court in Rajasthan's Bhilwara.
JUNE 12, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: YOUTH GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD IN CTG
A Chattogram court on June 9, 2024 sentenced a youth to death for killing a five-year-old child at Mirsari upazila in the district in 2010.
JUNE 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Homayoun Salami executed in Hamedan on June 12
JUNE 12, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jury recommends death sentence for Michael Collin Mitchell
43, Black
JUNE 11, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Howard Steven Ault sentenced to death, again
for the murders of two young girls
JUNE 11, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: COURT ON CASSATION SENTENCES TWO IRANIANS TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
In a recent ruling, the Kuwait Court of Cassation, led by Counselor Sultan Bouresli, has upheld the death penalty by hanging for two Iranian nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle 189 kilograms of hashish and psychotropic substances by sea from Kubb
JUNE 11, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 7 DRUG TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Iraqi court has sentenced seven individuals to death for drug trafficking, including one foreign national. The Central Criminal Court’s decision, announced on June 9, 2024 by the Supreme Judicial Council
JUNE 11, 2024MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. David Hosier, 69, White, was executed
7th prisoner executed in the U.S. this year
JUNE 10, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR KILLING EASYBIKE DRIVER IN JAMALPUR
A court in Jamalpur on June 9, 2024 sentenced four people to death for the murder of an Easybike driver in the district's Sarishabari upazila.
JUNE 10, 2024TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYAFRICAN COURT GIVES TANZANIA SIX MONTHS ULTIMATUM TO SCRAP DEATH PENALTY
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has reiterated its longstanding order to Tanzania to revoke the death penalty in line with the continental charter on the right to life, The East African reported on June 6, 2024.
JUNE 9, 2024SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES THREE MEN FOR MURDER OF TWO BROTHERS IN DHUSAMAREB
A Somali military court in Galmudug State executed three men in a public square in Dhusamareb town on June 6, 2024 for the murder of two brothers in December 2023.
- JUNE 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran - Mostafa Alipour executed in Yazd on June 9
JUNE 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Seyed Mohammad-Javad Vafaie overturned
Political prisoner
JUNE 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence
JUNE 6, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO KILLED PARENTS WHILE HIGH ON DRUGS
A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced a man to death on June 4, 2024 for murdering both of his parents during a drug-induced hallucination.
JUNE 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Sunni Cleric Mohammad Khezrnejad
JUNE 6, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, TWO CHILDREN
An antiterrorism court (ATC) in Karachi handed down death sentence on four counts to a man for murdering his wife, two minor children and a young brother-in-law over domestic issues in 2017, Dawn reported on June 1st, 2024.
JUNE 6, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Maryland. Kenneth J. Lighty gets 2 life sentences at resentencing
Federal sentence
JUNE 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hatem Özdemir appeals death sentence to higher Iranian court
Kurdish political prisoner belonging to the People Defense Forces
JUNE 5, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: WOMAN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR MURDERING EX-HUSBAND
A High Court in Birnin Kebbi on June 3, 2024 sentenced a woman, Farida Abubakar, to death by hanging for killing her former husband, Chief Magistrate Attahiru Muhammad-Ibrahim.