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JANUARY 30, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HYDERABAD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A court in Hyderabad on January 18, 2024 sentenced a man to death for murdering his wife.
JANUARY 30, 2024Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BOAT HIJACK CASE
The Colombo High Court on January 24, 2024 sentenced to death seven accused who were found guilty of allegedly forcibly hijacking a fishing boat in an attempt to flee to Australia illegally...
JANUARY 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Azaryoun executed in Urmia on Jannuary 30
JANUARY 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Karaj on January 30
Esmail Chieh and a man only identified as Payam
JANUARY 29, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The Criminal Court of Kuwait, presided over by Judge Fawzan Al-Anjari, sentenced to death a Kuwaiti citizen who was convicted of killing his friend in Umm Al-Hayman and burying his body in the Eighth Ring Road project site, Arab Times reported on January
JANUARY 29, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR 2005 SHRAMJIVI EXPRESS TRAIN BLAST
A district court in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur town on January 3, 2024 sentenced to death two men, including one from Bangladesh, for carrying out the Shramjivi Express train blast in 2005 that left at least 14 people dead and 62 injured.
JANUARY 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution for Four Kurdish Political Prisoners in Karaj on January 29
Pejman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Vafa Azarbar, and Mohammad Faramarzi
JANUARY 29, 2024Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: ARMY DENIES THAT GENERALS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SURRENDERING KEY CITY TO INSURGENTS
Myanmar’s military government is denying reports that it sentenced six army generals to death or life imprisonment for their surrender this month of a regional military command headquarters on the border with China to an alliance of ethnic armed groups, A
JANUARY 29, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Global condemnation for Smith's experimental execution
JANUARY 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Rajabian executed in Karaj on January 29
JANUARY 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on January 29
Mohammad Hussein Esmaieli, Ali Rajabian, Javad Ajamian, and Mohammad Hassan Jafari
- JANUARY 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran seeking death penalty for Johan Floderus
In retaliation for the life sentence handed down in Sweden on Hamid Noury
JANUARY 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Reza Ghorbani executed in Karaj on January 28
JANUARY 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aref and Asif Ishaqzahi executed in Birjand on January 28
JANUARY 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ruhollah Shakeri executed in Birjand on January 28
- JANUARY 27, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Democrats link Holocaust to Kenneth Smith execution by nitrogen gas
JANUARY 27, 2024LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Darrell Robinson's guilty verdict overturned
By the state Supreme Court
- JANUARY 26, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith's execution does not appear to have been peaceful
JANUARY 26, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith’s execution by nitrogen hypoxia is ‘historic’ achievement
Said Steve Marshall, Attorney General
- JANUARY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 Kurdish prisoners of conscience at imminent risk of execution
Anvar Khezri, Kamran Sheikheh and Khosrow Besharat
JANUARY 25, 2024JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 36 IN ANIME STUDIO ARSON
A Japanese man was convicted and sentenced to death on January 25, 2024 for the arson and killing of 36 people at famed anime studio Kyoto Animation in 2019, public broadcaster NHK said.
JANUARY 25, 2024GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2021 COUP PLOT
A Ghana court on January 24, 2024 sentenced six people to death by hanging, including three soldiers, for their involvement in an alleged plot three years ago to overthrow the country's government.
JANUARY 25, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith's execution is imminent
The federal appeals court also rejected his appeal
- JANUARY 25, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith executed on January 25
Using untested method of nitrogen gas
JANUARY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence confirmed for Kurdish political prisoner Yousef Ahmadi
JANUARY 24, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: THIRTEEN MEN EXECUTED IN NASIRIYAH PRISON
Thirteen men were executed in Nasiriyah prison on December 25, 2023, the first mass execution since 21 men were executed on November 16, 2020.
- JANUARY 24, 2024Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: DEFEATED JUNTA GENERALS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCES
Myanmar’s regime on January 20, 2024 handed death sentences to three brigadier generals who surrendered to the Brotherhood Alliance at Laukkai in northern Shan State.
JANUARY 24, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - US Supreme Court declines to halt execution of Kenneth Smith
JANUARY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on January 24
Fazel Shafiei, Morteza Nadimi + Unk. 63 executions in January
JANUARY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Obidavi sentenced to death
A political prisoner