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JANUARY 24, 2024CanadaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Canada. Canadian firm under fire for supplying equipment for Smith's execution
JANUARY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Judge Salavati: The Ruthless Enforcer of Iran’s Medieval Legal Decrees
- JANUARY 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Dissent rises against looming ‘experimental’ execution of Kenneth Smith
JANUARY 23, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DRUG DEALER GETS DEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge (ASJ) Muhammad Tahir Aslam awarded death penalty and imposed Rs100,000 on a drug dealer in Muzaffargarh on January 15, 2024.
JANUARY 23, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: COURT SENTENCES 9 PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A court in Vietnam on January 22, 2024 sentenced nine people to death after being convicted of involvement in one of the country's largest drug trafficking cases in months, state media reported.
JANUARY 23, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Slow Undoing of America's Death Penalty
JANUARY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Farhad Salimi executyed in Karaj on January 23
JANUARY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Asgarat executed in Karaj on January 23
- JANUARY 23, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith’s lawyers ask U.S. Supreme Court whether state can try twice to execute him
JANUARY 23, 2024TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Death Penalty Sentences For Child Rape Passes House Subcommittee
HB1663
JANUARY 22, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING CHIEF OGBOBULA IN RIVERS
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on January 18, 2024 sentenced to death three men on charges of kidnapping and murder.
JANUARY 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mohammad Ghobadloo executed in Karaj on January 22
JANUARY 22, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE IN SHARIATPUR
A court sentenced five persons to death in Bangladesh for killing a woman after gang-raping her in Damudya upazila of Shariatpur in 2019.
JANUARY 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Rigi executed in Zahedan on January 22
JANUARY 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Shakurian and Naser Mavedat executed in Sabzevar on January 22
JANUARY 22, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Richard Glossip’s Appeal
- JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Another young woman killed by the police
Anahita Amirpour, 20 years old
JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulreza Qalavand severely beaten prior to his execution
Was executed on August 21, 2123
JANUARY 21, 2024North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: RARE FOOTAGE SHOWS TEENS SENTENCED TO HARD LABOUR OVER K-DRAMA
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas.
JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salman Salimi and Ahmad Haeri executed in Hamedan on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moslem Aliyari executed in Shirvan on January 21
- JANUARY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hasan Gergij executed in Zahedan on January 20
JANUARY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 20
Nouri Zamani, Fathollah Jourkesh and Hosseinali Koutahi
JANUARY 19, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jewish clergy demand halt to gas chamber execution
JANUARY 18, 2024JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: 21-YEAR-OLD MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR 2021 MURDER, ARSON
A Japanese court sentenced a 21-year-old man to death on January 18, 2024 for the 2021 murder of two and arson, in the first case of capital punishment being given to an offender who was a minor at the time of the crime but whose name has been revealed un
JANUARY 18, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KARNATAKA HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
The Dharwad bench of the High Court in Karnataka state has refused to confirm the death sentence imposed upon three people in a double murder case, observing that the case does not answer the test of ‘rarest of rare case’, TNN reported on January 15, 2024
- JANUARY 18, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Alarm as Kenneth Smith to be executed via gas method rejected by veterinarians
JANUARY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eslahollah Bakhsh and Hamid Ebadinejad executed in Rasht on January 18
JANUARY 17, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DECADE-HIGH SURGE IN EXECUTIONS
Singapore’s government carried out its highest number of executions in more than a decade and sought to intimidate anti-death penalty activists, Human Rights Watch said on January 11, 2024 in its World Report 2024.
JANUARY 17, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER
A man was sentenced to death in Pakistan on December 29, 2023 after he was found guilty of killing his father with repeated strokes of a scissors on October 26, 2020 in the Langha village, located along the border of Khairpur district.