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- MARCH 25, 2024GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA MAINTAINS STANCE ON DEATH PENALTY
In a recent address to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), Guyana reiterated its stance on the contentious issue of the death penalty, CNW reported on March 20, 2024.
- MARCH 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men and 1 woman executed in Tabriz
Abbas Aghayi, Yasin Zolfaghari and his unidentified wife
MARCH 25, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The National Registry of Exonerations published its 2023 report
153 exonerations last year, 4 from death row
MARCH 25, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 8 DACOITS GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THREE
Ten years after three members of a Bareilly-based income tax inspector's family were murdered during a dacoity by a gang of eight, including two women, a city court has awarded capital punishment to all of them on March 8, 2024.
MARCH 25, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO WOMEN GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING THEIR MADRASSA TEACHER
Two Pakistani women have been sentenced to death for murdering their madrassa teacher who they accused of committing blasphemy, police said on March 20, 2024.
- MARCH 23, 2024KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA: JOSEPH 'JOWIE' IRUNGU SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MONICA KIMANI MURDER CASE
Joseph Irungu alias Jowie on March 13, 2024 was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of the 2018 murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani.
- MARCH 22, 2024DEATH PENALTY
DRC LIFTS DEATH-PENALTY MORATORIUM TO EXECUTE THOSE WHO WORK WITH M23 - OR SHOW COWARDICE
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has resolved to lift a 21-year moratorium on death penalty executions as part of measures to stop its citizens, and serving military and police, from working with M23 rebels in the eastern part of the country.
- MARCH 21, 2024DEATH PENALTY
RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR DRUG OFFENCES IN 2023
At least 467 people were executed for drug offences in 2023, a new record, according to Harm Reduction International (HRI), an NGO that has been tracking the use of the death penalty for drugs since 2007.
- MARCH 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - “Black Tuesdays” Hunger Strikes Against the Death Penalty
Political prisoners from five prisons
MARCH 20, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR 200KG OF DRUGS IN TAWAU
A mechanic was sentenced to death by the Tawau High Court on March 8, 2024 for trafficking nearly 200kg of syabu.
MARCH 20, 2024DEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Willie Pye, 59, Black, was executed
3rd execution of 2024 in the US
MARCH 20, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING LANCE NAIK IN BAREILLY
A man, who shot dead a Lance Naik in 2018 was awarded capital punishment by a court in UP’s Bareilly on February 28, 2024.
MARCH 20, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING CHILD IN N'GANJ
A court in Narayanganj on March 5, 2024 sentenced four people to death for killing a schoolboy at Rupganj in the district in 2018.
MARCH 20, 2024DelawareDEATH PENALTYUSA - Delaware. Judiciary Committee passed HB 70 to repeal death penalty
- MARCH 19, 2024TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLINES DEATH ROW INMATES' APPEAL FOR REVIEW
Taiwan’s constitutional court on March 18, 2024 declined to review an additional appeal lodged by 37 death row inmates on the grounds that it was submitted too late.
MARCH 19, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF CAMBODIAN MAN COMMUTED TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON FOR CAUSING DEATH
A Cambodian man, who was convicted of murdering two boys and two women, breathed a sigh of relief on March 12, 2024 after his death sentence was commuted to 60 years imprisonment by the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya.
- MARCH 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Scale of Iran rights abuses slammed at UN
At UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
MARCH 18, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Marco Perez officially sentenced to death
MARCH 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 Public Executions in 2023
MARCH 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Tabarzin executed in Tabriz on March 17
MARCH 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yadollah Talebvand executed in Khorramabad on March 17
An army officer
MARCH 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mehran Akrami lost his life under torture
A 32 year old Kurdish man
- MARCH 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Implemented Executions versus Forgiveness
282 executions for murder, but 857 avoided
- MARCH 14, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: TWO MEN GET DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED
Two death sentences on March 13, 2024 were commuted in separate rulings at the Federal Court and Court of Appeal, in Putrajaya
- MARCH 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 Juvenile Offenders Executed in 2023
2 confirmed, 3 unconfirmed
MARCH 14, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SUSPECTED ISIS MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The Iraqi judiciary on March 12, 2024 sentenced a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) murderer in Anbar province to death, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) reported
MARCH 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Bidrang executed in Qazvin on March 14
MARCH 13, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: EKITI STATE HIGH COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY
The Ekiti State High Court has handed down a death sentence to 30-year-old Bello Abduquadri, convicted of armed robbery, Bnnbreaking reported on March 11, 2024.
MARCH 13, 2024JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR KUDOKAI GANG BOSS
A Japanese high court on March 12, 2024 overturned a lower court ruling sentencing the head of the Kudokai crime syndicate to death over four cases of attacks on ordinary citizens.
MARCH 12, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT SENTENCED TO DEATH
The court of Attock on March 3, 2024 sentenced a murder convict to death for killing his brother in law.