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DECEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Human Rights Monitor: 743 executions in 2023
Hands off Cain counted 768 executions
DECEMBER 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Alikhani executed in Rafsanjan on December 7
782 executions in Iran in 2023
DECEMBER 7, 2023KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: EGYPTIAN AND KUWAITI TO HANG FOR KILLING RASHIDI
The Criminal Court on December 4, 2023 sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen and an Egyptian expatriate, who were charged with Mubarak Al-Rashidi's murder, to death by hanging.
DECEMBER 7, 2023TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD IN EXECUTION-STYLE SHOOTING OF 5 IN NANTOU
Taiwan High Court's Taichung Branch Court on December 7, 2023 upheld the death penalty handed down by a lower court to a gunman found guilty of the execution-style shooting and killing of four people and critically injuring a fifth at a biotechnology comp
DECEMBER 7, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 9 TRAFFICKERS TO 30 YEARS’ JAIL
A 76-year-old former security guard on death row was among nine men who saw their death sentences commuted to 30 years’ jail under the temporary jurisdiction accorded to the Federal Court by law, FMT reported on December 6, 2023.
DECEMBER 7, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC 2023 Year End Report
24 executions and 21 new death sentences in 2023
- DECEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Zabihollah Arjomand executed in Dehdasht on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khaled Rouhi (Roohi) and Sirus Heydari (Sirous Heidari) executed in Sanandaj on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2023YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: HUTHIS SENTENCE RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO DEATH
A Yemeni human rights activist has been sentenced to death on spying charges by a court in Sanaa, the country's Huthi-held capital, her lawyer told AFP on December 5, 2023.
DECEMBER 6, 2023KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: ETHIOPIAN WOMAN TO BE EXECUTED FOR INDIAN COLLEAGUE’S STABBING
The Court of Cassation in Kuwait City has issued a verdict to execute an Ethiopian woman who fatally stabbed her Indian colleague on the first day of Ramadan in 2021 in the Abdullah Al-Mubarak area, Arab Times reported on December 5, 2023.
DECEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamal Elhami executed in Saqqez on December 6
DECEMBER 5, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TEACHER EXECUTED FOR RAPING STUDENTS
A middle school teacher in Longhui county, Hunan province, has been executed for raping and molesting multiple students, according to a local court.
DECEMBER 5, 2023Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER COMMITTED IN 2010
The Central Province Civil Appellate High Court has sentenced two individuals to death after they were found guilty of murdering an individual back in 2010, Ada Derana reported on December 5, 2023.
DECEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on December 5
Sasan Maleki, Mehdi Moradi, Mojtaba Amiri, and Manouchehr Nourabad Barzgar
DECEMBER 5, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. DNA connects death row inmate Lucious Boyd to rape and murder cold case
- DECEMBER 4, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTY
PHILIPPINES SAYS CHINA HAS EXECUTED TWO FILIPINOS CONVICTED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING DESPITE APPEALS
China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking despite high-level Philippine government appeals to commute their death sentences to life in prison, the Philippine government said December 2, 2023.
DECEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fereydoun Nasiri-nejad executed in Jiroft on December 4
774 executions in Iran in 2023
DECEMBER 4, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Innocence Project helped exonerate 9 people in 2023
A list of these cases
DECEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Ajdar executed in Yasuj on December 4
DECEMBER 3, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FAMOUS TIK TOKER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The District and Sessions Courts in Islamabad on November 30, 2023 awarded death penalty to a famous TikToker on charge of murder, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
- DECEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Majidi executed in Qazvin on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Birjand on December 3
Mohammad Naeimi Far (Brahui), Ahmad Shahoo-Zahi, Maziar Narooie, and Hamid Sarani
DECEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - European Union: Current Pace Of Executions In Iran ‘Appalling’
NOVEMBER 30, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER WAR CRIMES IN BAGERHAT
A tribunal has sentenced seven people to death for committing a series of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, in Bagerhat during the 1971 Liberation War.
NOVEMBER 30, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Phillip Hancock, 59, White, was executed
24th and last execution in the US in 2023
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Alizehi and Naser Ozbakzehi executed in Zahedan on November 30
769 executions since the beginning of the year
NOVEMBER 30, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Attock court on November 29, 2023 sentenced a man to death in a murder case registered with Attock Sadsar police station in 2020.
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Kamran Rezaei executed in Shiraz on November 30
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 118 Kolbars killed or wounded in November
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NOVEMBER 29, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ONDO STATE FOR HACKING BRICKLAYER TO DEATH
A middle-aged man, Joseph Abayomi, was sentenced to death on November 27, 2023 in Ondo State for hacking his neighbor, Thomas Oluwole, to death.