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APRIL 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmaeil Hosniani and Marjan Hajizadeh executed in Zanjan on April 11
Husband and 19 year old wife
APRIL 11, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. One step forward for Melissa Lucio
The highly controversial case of a woman on death row
APRIL 10, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Caligornioa. NGOs fight ‘racially discriminatory’ death penalty in California Supreme Court
APRIL 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 82 Rights Groups: UNODC Must Stop Complicity in Drug Executions in Iran
Hands off Cain amongst the signatories
APRIL 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Mirgozar executed on April 10 at unspecified prison
APRIL 10, 2024DEATH PENALTYECPM PETITION: TOGETHER, LET’S SAY NO TO THE EXECUTIONS OF PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO!
Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort addresses a petition to the President of the Republic and Head of State of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisékedi not to allow the resumption of capital executions
APRIL 9, 2024MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Brian Dorsey, 52, White, was executed
5th prisoner executed in the U.S. this year
APRIL 9, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PUNE FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A MINOR GIRL AND KILLING HER
Additional Sessions Judge and District Judge BP Kshirsagar sentenced Tejas Mahipati Dalvi to death for the rape, kidnapping, and murder of a minor.
APRIL 9, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: SEVEN DEATH SENTENCES CONFIRMED IN THE HELWAN BRIGADE CASE
Egypt’s highest court on January 24, 2024 confirmed the death sentences against seven individuals, in the so-called “Helwan Brigade” counter-terrorism case.
APRIL 9, 2024TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Senate advances death penalty for child rape
SB 1834
APRIL 9, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Jewish leaders opposing use of gas in executions
Ohio House Bill 392
APRIL 8, 2024SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: POLICE OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Two police officers on April 4, 2024 were sentenced to death in Somalia by a military court.
APRIL 8, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: FATHER PARDONS SON’S KILLER DAYS BEFORE EXECUTION
Saudi citizen Ati Al Maliki in Mecca has granted a pardon to the killer of his son Abdullah, just days before the scheduled execution set for April 17, without seeking any compensation in return, Gulf News reported on April 7, 2024.
APRIL 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Marzban executed in Shiraz on April 7
APRIL 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s Annual Report
For the Iranian year 1402 (21 March 2023 – 19 March 2024)
APRIL 5, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Jeff Rosen to empty death row
Santa Clara County District Attorney
APRIL 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Ali Mirzania executed in Khorramabad on April 5
APRIL 5, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Derrick Dearman Asks to Be Executed
APRIL 4, 2024TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: SIX COMMUNITY PATROL GUARDS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
A court in Babati on March 5, 2024 sentenced six members of a community patrol, known as ‘Sungusungu’, to death for the brutal murder of a man they accused of cattle theft.
APRIL 4, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: EX-PROPERTY AGENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CANNABIS TRAFFICKING
A former property agent was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for trafficking cannabis in Singapore, with the judge rejecting his claim that the drugs were for research and development.
APRIL 4, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, Black, was executed
APRIL 4, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Tavares Calloway sentenced to LWOP
At resentencing
APRIL 3, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TARABA CJ SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING
Taraba state chief judge, Justice Joel Agya, on March 8, 2024, sentenced one Yusufa Adamu and Adamu Abdullahi to death by hanging for kidnapping Balkisu Kambe and Maryam Musa.
APRIL 3, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SIBLINGS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CUMILLA
A court in Cumilla on April 1, 2024 sentenced two brothers to death in a case filed over the murder of a man in Titas upazila of the district in 2020.
APRIL 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence for Police Officer Jafar Javanmardi, who Killed Protester
Reflections on a very rare event
APRIL 2, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Attorney general report says Ohio's death penalty is "unworkable"
Dave Yost backs bill to change it
APRIL 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump calls for cop killers to get ‘mandatory’ death sentence
in wake of slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller
APRIL 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence for political prisoner Shahriar Bayat
APRIL 2, 2024RussiaDEATH PENALTYRUSSIA WANTS CROCUS CITY HALL TERRORISTS TO STAND TRIAL IN BELARUS SO THEY CAN GET THE DEATH PENALTY
Russia could allow a trial of the Crocus City Hall terrorist suspects to take place in neighbouring Belarus so they can face the death penalty.
APRIL 2, 2024CanadaDEATH PENALTYCANADA - Poll: 57 per cent of Canadians support reinstating the death penalty
But, at the same time, 55 per cent prefer LWOP