2023

IRAN - Mohsen Salarzehi executed in Iranshahr on December 16

818 executions in Iran in 2023

USA - Texas. Texas still leads nation in executions, but the pace is much slower now

Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty 2023 Report

IRAN - Davoud Brahui (Brahooie) executed in Qom on December 15

IRAN - Khairullah Nahtani executed in Zahedan on December 14

IRAN - Three men recently executed in Shiraz

IRAN - Mosafer Zargar executed in Mashhad on December 14

USA - Alabama. Lawsuit against the execution of Kenneth Smith under the new nitrogen hypoxia system

Set for 25 January

IRAN - Abid (Obaid) Mahmoudi executed in Kermanshah on December 13

IRAN - Vahid Haji Pour executed in Isfahan on December 13

MALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED, WORKER GETS 33 YEARS FOR KILLING FOREMAN

A Bangladeshi man escaped the gallows after the Federal Court in Putrajaya on December 23, 2023 commuted his death sentence to 33 years in jail for murdering his fellow countryman.

IRAN - Khalil Majedi executed in Ahvaz on December 13

IRAN - Mohammadreza Habibian Executed in Babol on December 13

IRAN - Hamid Bakshayesh executed in Karaj on December 13

There is a high possibility that he was a child offender

IRAN - The European Parliament officially awarded the Sakharov prize to Mahsa Amini

and the Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement

MOTHER 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

IRAN - Ali Bababyi executed in Shirvan on December 12

IRAN - Davoud Khademi executed in Sanandaj on 12 December

IRAN - Ali Babaei executed in Shirvan on December 12

IRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj on December 12

Amin Zakeri Kakavand, Khalil Haji Abadi, Milad Bideh, Hamid Bakshaish, and Hamid Esmaili

IRAN - Sajad Haghizadeh executed in Khorramabad on December 12

IRAN - Bahram Seyed Zadeh executed in Qom on December 12

IRAN - Abolfazl Abdolmaleki executed in Qom on December 12

USA - Mississippi. Conviction of Terry Pitchford overturned

NIGERIA: 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.

JAPAN: 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.

IRAN - 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

IRAN - Amin Jokar executed in Shiraz on December 11

NIGERIA: 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.

IRAN - (Norway) Narges Mohammadi's children collect the Nobel in place of their mother, detained in Iran

IRAN - Swede Johan Floderus faces charges in Iran of spying for Israel