2024

ZIMBABWE: 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.

SAUDI 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.

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

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.

IRAN - Yavar Abdali executed in Dezful on December 31

USA - North Carolina. Clemency for 15 death row prisoners

IRAN - 34 Women Executed in 2024

Year-end report of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

IRAN - 3 men executed in Qazvin on December 31

Amir Mohammadi + 2 unk

IRAN - Ahmad Barahouei and Kurus Naroui executed in Isfahan on December 30

VIETNAM: 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

IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on December 30

Ahmad Barahooie (Brahui) Chenal, Kourosh Narooie, Ayat Pourmansouri, and Babak Shoghi.

IRAN - Protester (Mojahed) Korkor sentenced to death

For the second time

CHINA: 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.

USA - Military Appeals Court Rules 9/11 Defendants Can Plead to Avoid Death Sentences

IRAN - Jalal Stanekzai executed in Aligudarz on December 29

IRAN - Cecilia Sala, a 29-year-old Italian journalist, arrested in Tehran

IRAN - 4 men executed in Gonabad on December 26

Javad Ghaffari, Ahmad Ghafran, Abdollah Naroui and Hossein Salarzehi

IRAN - Saman Fakhri and Asad Amini executed in Jiroft on December 26

948 executions in Iran in 2024

IRAN - Jahan Tigh third man executed in Jiroft on Dec. 26

951 executions in Iran in 2024

IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on December 25

Masoud Jalilian, Hassan Mansouri, Hamed Pakdaman

IRAN - Habib Pournaghi executed in Tabriz on December 25

IRAN - Hamed Ranjbar and Kateb Seyednian executed in Shiraz on December 25

IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on December 25

Iman Yazdani, Davood Barati, and Mohammad-Ali Soleimankhani

TANZANIA: 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.

IRAN - Mahmoud Keshavarzi executed in Shiraz on December 25

IRAN - Mohammad Javad Gudarzi executed in Aligurdaz on December 25

IRAN - Davoud Ghalijayi executed in Birjand on December 24

IRAN - Unk executed in Fars province on December 24

930 executions in 2024