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2024
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2024, month by month, with the countries most present that year.

Latest news of 2024
DRC: 13 SOLDIERS TO HANG FOR MURDER, LOOTING, COWARDICE
A Congolese military tribunal on December 31, 2024 sentenced 13 soldiers to death on charges including murder, looting, and cowardice in what military authorities said was a drive to improve army discipline after territorial losses due to soldiers fleeing
- DECEMBER 31, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ORGAN HARVESTING IN NASARAWA
A Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Akwanga on December 31, 2024 sentenced Gambo Adamu to death by hanging for the murder of Hassan Ahmed, whose organs were harvested in the Akwanga Local Government Area of the state.
DECEMBER 31, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: FATHER-SON DUO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING RELATIVE IN 2014 LAND DISPUTE CASE
A Bareilly court on December 24, 2024 sentenced a father-son duo to death in connection with a decade-old murder case, also imposing a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each.
DECEMBER 31, 2024DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yavar Abdali executed in Dezful on December 31
DECEMBER 31, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 330 PEOPLE EXECUTED THIS YEAR, HIGHEST NUMBER IN DECADES
Saudi Arabia has reportedly executed 330 people this year, in what rights groups are calling the highest number in decades.
DECEMBER 31, 2024DEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Clemency for 15 death row prisoners
DECEMBER 31, 2024DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qazvin on December 31
Amir Mohammadi + 2 unk
DECEMBER 31, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT EMMERSON MNANGAGWA SIGNS BILL ABOLISHING THE DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty on December 31, 2024, after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will commute to jail time the sentences of prisoners on death row.
DECEMBER 31, 2024DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 34 Women Executed in 2024
Year-end report of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
DECEMBER 31, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: AT LEAST 338 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN 2024
Saudi Arabia carried out at least 338 executions in 2024, sharply up on the 170 recorded in 2023 and the highest number in decades, according to an AFP tally of official reports.
DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Barahouei and Kurus Naroui executed in Isfahan on December 30
DECEMBER 30, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: HCMC COURT SENTENCES 27 TO DEATH IN DRUG TRAFFICKING CASE
The HCMC People's Court sentenced a Vietnamese drug lord and her 26 subordinates to death on December 27, 2024 for drug trafficking
DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on December 30
Ahmad Barahooie (Brahui) Chenal, Kourosh Narooie, Ayat Pourmansouri, and Babak Shoghi.
DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester (Mojahed) Korkor sentenced to death
For the second time
DECEMBER 30, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TEENAGER SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR MURDERING CLASSMATE
A teenager, the mastermind in the killing of his classmate early this year, has been sentenced to life in prison for intentional homicide, according to a court in Handan, Hebei province on December 30, 2024.
DECEMBER 30, 2024DEATH PENALTYUSA - Military Appeals Court Rules 9/11 Defendants Can Plead to Avoid Death Sentences
DECEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Stanekzai executed in Aligudarz on December 29
DECEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cecilia Sala, a 29-year-old Italian journalist, arrested in Tehran
DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Gonabad on December 26
Javad Ghaffari, Ahmad Ghafran, Abdollah Naroui and Hossein Salarzehi
DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Fakhri and Asad Amini executed in Jiroft on December 26
948 executions in Iran in 2024
DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jahan Tigh third man executed in Jiroft on Dec. 26
951 executions in Iran in 2024
- DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahmoud Keshavarzi executed in Shiraz on December 25
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on December 25
Masoud Jalilian, Hassan Mansouri, Hamed Pakdaman
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Pournaghi executed in Tabriz on December 25
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Ranjbar and Kateb Seyednian executed in Shiraz on December 25
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on December 25
Iman Yazdani, Davood Barati, and Mohammad-Ali Soleimankhani
DECEMBER 25, 2024DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Gudarzi executed in Aligurdaz on December 25
DECEMBER 25, 2024TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: TRIO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KAGERA DURING 2024
Three people have been sentenced to death by hanging in Kagera region, Tanzania, during 2024 after they were convicted of murder.
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davoud Ghalijayi executed in Birjand on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Brothers Ali and Jasem Manian executed in Isfahan on December 24
