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DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Bababyi executed in Shirvan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYMOTHER OF NURSE FACING EXECUTION IN YEMEN TOLD TO EXPLAIN ‘BLOOD MONEY’
The Delhi High Court on December 11, 2023 directed Premakumari, the mother of Nimisha Priya, a Kerala nurse facing a death sentence in Yemen for her involvement in the murder of a local citizen, to furnish documents illustrating the legal option of blood
DECEMBER 11, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ZAMFARA FOR KILLING FRIEND OVER N100
A Zamfara State High Court on December 7, 2023 sentenced one Anas Dahiru to death by hanging for killing his friend.
DECEMBER 11, 2023JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: EX-COP'S APPEAL OVER MURDER OF FAMILY DISMISSED, DEATH PENALTY UPHELD
Japan's top court on December 8, 2023 dismissed an appeal by the defense of a former policeman who was given the death sentence for the murders of his wife and two children in 2017, exhausting his legal options.
DECEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahsa Amini's Family Decries Travel Ban on Eve of Human Rights Award Ceremony
The European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
DECEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Jokar executed in Shiraz on December 11
DECEMBER 10, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MOTORCYCLE THEFT IN EKITI
Four persons, Segun Friday, Tijani Semiu Seun, Ogunyemi Segun Olarewaju, and Adebayo Tope, found guilty of stealing a motorcycle have been sentenced to death by the Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Tori.ng reported on Devember 7, 2023.
DECEMBER 10, 2023NorwayDEATH PENALTYIRAN - (Norway) Narges Mohammadi's children collect the Nobel in place of their mother, detained in Iran
DECEMBER 10, 2023SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Swede Johan Floderus faces charges in Iran of spying for Israel
DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Basit Gorgich (Gorgij) and Abdul Aziz Shahlibur (Shahlibar) executed in Zahedan on December 9
DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Zahedan on December 9
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DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Nasiri and Abbas Ketabi executed in Qom on December 9
DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Ketabi executed in Qom on December 9
DECEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Orumiyeh (Urmia) on December 8
Ali Shahin-Nejad, Solat Tosan, and Janali Nadimi Dargahi
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 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 PENALTY
IRAN - Kamal Elhami executed in Saqqez on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zabihollah Arjomand executed in Dehdasht 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, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fereydoun Nasiri-nejad executed in Jiroft on December 4
774 executions in Iran in 2023