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APRIL 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sohrab Rafieian and Morteza Azimi executed in Zanjan on April 28
APRIL 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Call for Urgent Action to Save Reza Rasaei and Habib Deris
2 Political Prisoners Facing Execution
- APRIL 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on April 27
Sohrab Hokmabad, Amir Moharami and Davoud Namiari
APRIL 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iraj Sanambari executed in Arak on April 27
APRIL 27, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ HANGS 11 CONVICTED OF 'TERRORISM'
Iraqi authorities have executed at least 11 people convicted of "terrorism" this week, security and health sources said April 24, 2024, with rights group Amnesty International condemning an "alarming lack of transparency".
APRIL 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 2 men executed in Karaj on April 25
The woman identified only as Sahar, or Shahnaz
APRIL 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farzad Khademi executed in Saqqez on April 25
APRIL 25, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Death penalty for Patrick McDowell, 27, White
APRIL 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Toomaj Salehi, a protest rapper, sentenced to death
APRIL 24, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIS NIECE IN NATORE
A tribunal has sentenced a man to death over the rape and murder of his niece, a student in 12th grade, in Natore’s Singra Upazila.
APRIL 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on April 24
Shahram Sharghi, Ali Reza Aghaei and Pezhman Azizi
APRIL 24, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ‘BLASPHEMOUS’ WHATSAPP MESSAGES
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death on charges of blasphemy over Whatsapp messages, BBC reported on April 8, 2024.
APRIL 24, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Paige Lawyer, 44, Black, sentenced to death
APRIL 24, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. House approves SB 1702
Increases the level of secrecy around executions
APRIL 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yavar Aminkhah executed in Saveh on April 24
- APRIL 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Asgari executed in Arak on April 24
APRIL 23, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING TRIO IN CTG
A Chattogram court on April 18, 2024 awarded death penalty to two men for killing three members of a family in city's Biyazid Bostami Thana area 19 years ago.
APRIL 23, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: OSUN COURT SENTENCES TWO SERIAL ROBBERS TO DEATH BY HANGING
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, on April 18, 2024 sentenced Wasiu Afolayan (36) and Kola Adeyemi (34), to death by hanging for offences bordering on conspiracy and armed robbery.
APRIL 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Sobhani executed in Gorgan on April 23
APRIL 23, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Attorney General Gentner Drummond asks to halt the execution of Richard Glossip
APRIL 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian Rapper's Death Sentence Changed To 5 Years In Prison
Kurdish dissident rapper Saman Yasin was arrested during nationwide protests in 2022
APRIL 22, 2024TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. HB1663 passes House. Already passed Senate.
Death penalty for child rapists
APRIL 22, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: TWO ISIS-LINKED INDIVIDUALS SENTENCED TO DEATH
The Central Criminal Court under the Iraqi Judiciary Council on April 22, 2024 handed a death sentence to two individuals linked to ISIS.
APRIL 22, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: LUDHIANA WOMAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR BURYING TODDLER ALIVE
Ludhiana resident Neelam Kaur, 38, was on April 18, 2024 sentenced to death for burying alive Dilroz Kaur, the two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of her neighbour, Harpreet Singh, who is a police constable, after an argument with his family three years ago.
APRIL 22, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Prosecutors excluded Jewish and Black jurors
APRIL 22, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Prosecutor Says Sept. 11 Suspects Can Be Held Past War Crimes Sentence
APRIL 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolbari Pashtu and Alireza Pourshahbaz (Shahbaz) executed in Karaj on April 21
APRIL 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Taybad on April 21
Esmaeil Esmaeil-Zadeh, Mohammad-Amin Mohammad-Pour + Unk
- APRIL 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Khoshavaz executed in Karaj on April 21
- APRIL 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on April 21
Hossein Tawana Kodiani, Reza Masrour, Taleb Akbari