2023

VIETNAM: PRESIDENT REDUCES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE FOR 18 PRISONERS

President Vo Van Thuong signed a decision on December 27, 2023 to reduce death penalties to life imprisonment for 18 prisoners who filed petitions for commuted sentences.

IRAN - Mohammad Reza Mehraban executed in Sanandaj on December 26

NIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR SETTING HIS MOTHER ABLAZE IN NIGER STATE

The Minna High Court presided over by the Chief Judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik, on December 13, 2023 sentenced Stephen Jiya to death by hanging for setting his biological mother ablaze which resulted in her death.

SAUDI ARABIA: 2 BANGLADESHIS EXECUTED FOR KILLING AN INDIAN

Two expatriates were executed in Saudi Arabia after they had been convicted in a final court ruling of murdering a man by spraying an insecticide into his mouth, Gulf News reported on December 23, 2023.

MALDIVES’ PUSH TO REINSTATE DEATH PENALTY SPARKS UPROAR

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Maldives government to refrain from a planned move to reintroduce the death penalty in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.

IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan

Shirali Saeidi and Saman Mogouei on December 23, Reza Keshavarzi on December 22

IRAN - Karamullah Lorestani and Hossein Papi executed in Khorramabad on December 23

USA - Oklahoma. Glynn Simmons formally exonerated

After 48 years in prison

TANZANIA: SIX PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER CHURCH BOMBING

Six people found guilty of bombing a Catholic church in Arusha, northwestern Tanzania in 2013 have been sentenced to death.

PAKISTAN: SHAHNAWAZ AMIR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SARAH INAM’S MURDER CASE

An Islamabad trial court on December 14, 2023 sentenced Shahnawaz Amir to death for the murder of Sarah Inam and imposed a fine of Rs1 million on him, which would be paid to the bereaved family.

IRAN - Mohammad Saleh Amini Executed in Taybad on December 21

IRAN - Mojtaba Ayami executed in Qom on December 21

SAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR STABBING MUM, SISTER TO DEATH

Saudi authorities have executed a citizen after he had been convicted of fatally stabbing his mother and sister and burnt their bodies.

IRAN - 6 Unidentified Men Executed in Ardabil on December 20

Drug-related executions have continuously risen every year for the past three years

CHINA: FEMALE SERIAL KILLER LAO RONGZHI EXECUTED

Lao Rongzhi, a woman in the spotlight for her involvement in multiple killings, was executed on December 18, 2023 after China's top court approved her death sentence.

BOTSWANA: CHILD-KILLER CONDEMNED TO DEATH

The Gaborone High Court has sent a convicted child rapist and murderer to the gallows. Chief Justice Terrence Rannowane sentenced Ramatshwiri Mokobela to death on December 14, 2023 for killing a five-year-old girl-child in the Ghanzi District area.

IRAN - Samira Sabzian Fard executed in Karaj on December 20

21 women executed in Iran this year

IRAN - Farzad Golmohammadi Executed in Sanandaj on December 20

IRAN - Najibollah Dahmardeh Executed in Ghaemshahr on December 20

Baluch are grossly overrepresented in execution numbers in Iran

IRAN - Death Sentences Issued for 2,000 People in the Small City of Delfan

IRAN - Sweden. Appeals Court Upholds Life Sentence for Hamid Noury

GUYANA: HIGH COURT JUDGE SENTENCED FIVE MEN TO DEATH FOR BRUTAL 2016 PIRACY ATTACK

Justice Sandil Kissoon of the High Court in Guyana on December 14, 2023 sentenced five men to death for the 2016 piracy attack that claimed the lives of four fishermen.

IRAN - Moslem Farahani executed in Zanjan on December 19

IRAN - Abdollah Zamani and Esmail Ijbari Executed in Karaj on December 19

USA - Louisiana. Frank Ford Cosey's death sentence reduced to life in prison

For intellectual disability

IRAN - Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi boycotts latest trial

IRAN - Ali Poursiamak Executed in Neyshabur on December 18

IRAN - Taher Davabi Executed in Khorramabad on December 18

USA - Pennsylvania. Noel Montalvo Exonerated

IRAN - Execution Of Alleged Mossad Agent (not identified)