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- 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, 2024Congo - KinshasaDEATH 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 PENALTYRECORD 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, 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, 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 20, 2024GeorgiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Willie Pye, 59, Black, was executed
3rd execution of 2024 in the US
MARCH 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Black Tuesdays” Hunger Strikes Against the Death Penalty
Political prisoners from five prisons
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 19, 2024TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: 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 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 PENALTYIRAN - Implemented Executions versus Forgiveness
282 executions for murder, but 857 avoided
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 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 PENALTYIRAN - 5 Juvenile Offenders Executed in 2023
2 confirmed, 3 unconfirmed
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.
MARCH 12, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN BAGERHAT
A court in Bagerhat on February 28, 2024 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife.
MARCH 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Executions for Adultery and Blasphemy in 2023
MARCH 12, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF 3-YEAR-OLD
A court in Haryana state on February 21, 2024 sentenced to death a 25- year-old man for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in 2018, police said.
MARCH 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moein Salahvarzi executed in Ilam on March 11
After 32 years on death row
MARCH 11, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: EIGHT FORMER DEATH ROW INMATES IMMEDIATELY RELEASED
Eight former death row inmates in Trinidad and Tobago have been released after 22 years’ imprisonment, DSC reported on March 4, 2024.