Chronological archive
December 2024
The 148 news items published by Hands Off Cain in December 2024, in chronological order.
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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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 PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Pournaghi executed in Tabriz on December 25
- DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk executed in Fars province on December 24
930 executions in 2024
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DECEMBER 24, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR DRIVER IN SCHOOL ATTACK
A man in Changde, Hunan province, was sentenced to death with two years' reprieve on December 23, 2024 for committing the crime of using dangerous means to harm public security, according to Xinhua News Agency.
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Farahmand executed in Shiraz on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahm Khani executed in Navahand on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 48th week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulrahman Eshaqzahi executed in Mashhad on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Khosravi and Davood Qalijkhani executed in Birjand on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asghar Ghaffari executed in Qom on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarhossein Shokri executed in Khorramabad on December 24
- DECEMBER 23, 2024DEATH PENALTY
USA - Biden commutes 37 of the 40 federal death sentences
Before Trump can resume executions
- DECEMBER 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA: Biden commutes 37 of 40 federal death sentences
President Joe Biden announced on December 23 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.
DECEMBER 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - List of 37 commuted by Biden
DECEMBER 23, 2024ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: BIKER GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR PATTAYA MURDER
A member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club on December 20, 2024 was sentenced to death and two others given life imprisonment in Thailand for the murder of a German property broker whose dismembered body was found in a freezer in Pattaya last year.
DECEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Singer Parastoo Ahmadi and Musicians Charged Over Virtual Concert
DECEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Loghman Ahmadi Aghdam executed in Urmia on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2024DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Arjmand executed in Arak on December 23
- DECEMBER 23, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GIVEN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING OF A JUDGE
A man who fatally stabbed a judge over dissatisfaction with her ruling was sentenced to death by a court in China's Henan province, local authorities said on December 23, 2024.
DECEMBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Johari and Karim Oladi executed in Qazvin on December 22
DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soltan Jahantigh executed in Zahedan on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arman Samadi executed in Isfahan on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashkan Parseh executed in Isfahan on 21 December
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Moradian executed in Kermanshah on December 21
DECEMBER 19, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Kevin Ray Underwood, 45, White, was executed on December 19
DECEMBER 19, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - “The Death Penalty in 2024: Year End Report”
25 executions, 26 new death sentences
DECEMBER 19, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF YU HUAYING FOR CHILD ABDUCTING AND TRAFFICKING
The Guizhou Provincial High People's Court in Southwest China on December 19, 2024 upheld the death sentence of Yu Huaying, who was charged with abducting and trafficking 17 children.
DECEMBER 19, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Attorney General Refuses to Cooperate with Committee Subpoena for Robert Roberson
Blocking His Testimony for the 2nd Time
DECEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Kabiri executed in Miandoab on December 19
DECEMBER 18, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: OSUN GOVERNOR ORDERS PROBE, CLEMENCY FOR MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEALING FOWL
Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has ordered an urgent review of the case involving a teenager sentenced to death for stealing a fowl.
- DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on December 18
Hassan Ali Yousefi, Majid Jamshidi, Sohrab Ahmadipour, Abdolbari Pakouhi, Farzad Nowruzi, and Rastgouyi Kondelaj
DECEMBER 18, 2024IndianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Indiana. Joseph Corcoran, 49, White, was executed
- DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shams executed in Hamedan on December 18
914 executions so far in 2024
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DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahim Barin and Jamal Naboureh (Noboure) executed in Mahabad on December 18
- DECEMBER 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HIGH COURT COMMUTES ULFA LEADER'S DEATH SENTENCE
A Bangladeshi High Court on December 18, 2024 commuted the death sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Barua to life imprisonment and acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 case of attempted smuggling of weapons.
DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Jamshidian and Jebrael Naseri were executed in Rasht on December 14 and 18
- DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shamsollahi executed in Hamedan on December 18
- DECEMBER 17, 2024United NationsDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY. HANDS OFF CAIN, ANOTHER STEP TOWARD WORLDWIDE ABOLITION
The United Nations General Assembly has just passed its 10th Resolution for a universal moratorium on executions.
DECEMBER 17, 2024AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG THREE INDIVIDUALS FOR ‘SODOMY’
Taliban authorities have publicly flogged three Individuals for “sodomy” in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, amid a recent surge in corporal punishment.
DECEMBER 17, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR CORRUPTION-RELATED CRIMES
Li Jianping, a former official in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was executed on December 17, 2024.
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN 71st Resolution Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Violations, Targeted Repression of Women
DECEMBER 17, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Lawmakers issue new subpoena for Robert Roberson's testimony
- DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jamal Asgarabadi executed in Sari on December 17
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 3 men executed in Sari on December 17
- DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Mohammadi Khiareh at Imminent Risk of Execution
Kurdish political prisoner
DECEMBER 16, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 100 KG OF DRUGS
A Vietnamese-Canadian man, along with three accomplices, was sentenced to death on December 16, 2024 for trafficking over 100 kg of drugs into Vietnam.
DECEMBER 16, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Judge Angela Cowden formally sentenced Zephen Xaver to five death sentences
DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Seyedi Bukani executed in Miandoab on December 16
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghorban Razi and Mohammad Kasrani executed in Tabriz on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Mirzapour executed in Gorgan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Men Executed in Zahedan on December 15
Mohammad Vazir Roudini, Yaghoub Barahouyi Moghaddam, Elias Tardast and Alireza Galebacheh
- DECEMBER 15, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: SENATE APPROVES BILL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe’s Senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, a key step in scrapping a law last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago.
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men + 1 woman executed in Yazd on December 15
Mohammad Ali Kharkouhi, Reza Kharkouhi, Abdolbaset Toutazehi, Abdolnasser Toutazehi, Ne’matollah Toutazehi, Salah Rahimi + unidentified woman
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Molakazemi executed in Semnan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Morad Dehghani Executed in Nahavand on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 more executions in Yazd on December 15
Karim Eslami and Najaf Rahmani
- DECEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Ebrahimi Geravand executed in Malayer on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Koulivand executed in Arak on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Basirat and Ali Akbar Gharib Sarduiyee executed in Roudbar on December 9 and 14
- DECEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolkarim Shokati Timouri executed in Mashhad on December 12
DECEMBER 13, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people
For non-violent crimes
- DECEMBER 12, 2024MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO TO BACK UN RESOLUTION FOR A UNIVERSAL MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi on December 9, 2024 said Morocco will vote in favor of the tenth United Nations resolution on a moratorium on the application of the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 12, 2024Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
POPE CALLS FOR DEBT FORGIVENESS, ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Pope Francis called for debt relief for the poor countries of the South of the globe and the universal abolition of the death penalty in his message for World Peace Day 2025, which takes place on January 1.
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- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Khorami and Kheirollah Amiri executed in Shiraz on December 12
- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahrokh Fahimi executed in Neishabur Prison on December 12
- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajjad Azizi and Ebrahim Valizadeh executed in Miandoab on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Khandan, husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, arrested
- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shah Achakzahi, and Rahim Achakzehi executed in Mashhad on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Roosta (Rousta) executed in Shiraz on December 12
870 executions from the beginning of 2024
- DECEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Esmaeili executed in Isfahan on December 12
- DECEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Symbolic Concert in Caravanserai
Legal Action Against Parastoo Ahmadi and Crew
DECEMBER 11, 2024AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG MAN AND WOMAN IN GHAZNI ON CHARGES OF ‘ADULTERY’
The Taliban Supreme Court announced on December 10, 2024 that a man and a woman have been publicly flogged in Ghazni province, southeastern Afghanistan, on charges of “adultery.”
DECEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Supreme Court Overturns Death Sentence of Abbas (Mojahed) Korkor
DECEMBER 11, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BOMBAY HC SETS ASIDE DEATH PENALTY OF KEY ACCUSED FOR MURDER OF PUNE FAMILY IN 1997, ORDERS HIS RELEASE
The Bombay High Court on December 9, 2024 set aside the death penalty granted to the key accused by a lower court for the murder of four members of a family, including two children, 27 years ago in Pune.
- DECEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 10 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on December 11.
Hrana (and HoC) already gave the news, speaking of “only” 9 executions.
- DECEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Barzegar executed in Khorramabad on December 11
- DECEMBER 10, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: BRITISH NATIONAL SENTENCED TO DEATH
The Sessions Court in Jhelum, Pakistan, on December 7, 2024 handed down a death sentence to a British national for the murder of his British-Pakistani uncle.
- DECEMBER 10, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO YOUTH IN 61 DAYS FOR MINOR'S RAPE-MURDER IN JAYNAGAR
A POCSO court in Baruipur of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas on December 5, 2024 awarded death sentence to Mustaqin, convicted of rape and murder of a minor girl from Jaynagar.
- DECEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Qarchak Prison Report: Hell for Women and Children
To mark World Human Rights Day (10 December)
- DECEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Qom on December 10
Abdulmahdi Rashadmiri, Saeed Motiei (Moti) and Asghar Ramazani
- DECEMBER 9, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pope Francis and many others urge Biden to commute all federal death sentences
DECEMBER 9, 2024EthiopiaDEATH PENALTYETHIOPIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN IN TIGRAY OVER KIDNAPPING AND KILLING OF 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL
One man has been sentenced to death in the Tigray region, Ethiopia, for the kidnapping and killing of a girl, Borkena News reported on December 5, 2024.
- DECEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on December 9
Omid Hosseinzayi, Khodabakhsh Ghanbarzehi (Barahi), and … Rakhshani
- DECEMBER 9, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FATHER SENTENCED TO LIFE, GIRLFRIEND TO DEATH FOR ABUSE AND KILLING OF GIRL
The father of a 3-year-old girl was sentenced to life imprisonment, and his girlfriend received the death penalty on December 6, 2024 for the brutal abuse and killing of the child in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
DECEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Ghasemi executed in Isfahan on December 9
- DECEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Bahrami-Fard executed in Dezful on December 9
DECEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran’s failed assassination attempt on Shir-Ahmad Shirani
Haalvsh News Outlet editor
- DECEMBER 8, 2024AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS SIX PEOPLE IN KHOST AND ONE IN FARYAB PROVINCES
The Taliban publicly flogged six individuals in eastern Khost province and one person in northern Faryab province on December 3, 2024.
DECEMBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulghafour Razmdideh Rigi executed in Birjand on December 8
DECEMBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Atashzadeh executed in Kashan on December 8
- DECEMBER 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jaber Ansari and Ashkan Fathi executed in Isfahan on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ameneh Alipour, a woman, executed in Zanjan on December 7
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DECEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on situation of political prisoner Shiva Esmaili
- DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahdi Hossein Zahi executed in Zahedan on December 5
DECEMBER 5, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: UTTAR PRADESH MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY ON DRUG CHARGES
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh to death on charges of drug trafficking, triggering panic and despair among his family members who have pleaded for clemency, PTI reported on December 4, 2024.
DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pakhshan Azizi has been denied visitation rights for the past 150 days.
Kurdish political prisoner on death row
DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Khaleqi Farghani executed in Mashhad on December 5
Execution carried out on his 22nd birthday
- DECEMBER 4, 2024FranceDEATH PENALTY
FRANCE REQUESTS TRANSFER OF DEATH ROW CONVICT HELD IN INDONESIA
France has asked Indonesia to transfer a French death row convict, who has been jailed for drug crimes in the country since 2005, a senior minister told AFP on November 29, 2024.
DECEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Mohammadi was granted a medical leave
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist
DECEMBER 4, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Jason Alan Thornburg, 44, White, sentenced to death
DECEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sina Shams-Elahi executed in Miandoab on December 4
- DECEMBER 3, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA SURPASSES 300 EXECUTIONS IN 2024
Saudi Arabia has put over 300 people to death in 2024, according to an AFP tally, after four executions announced on December 3 brought the kingdom's total to a level far outstripping the highest known annual figures.
- DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 45th week of “No to Executions Tuesdays”
- DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on December 3
Khalil Hassanzadeh, Abdullah Panah, Rasoul Ebrahimi
DECEMBER 3, 2024MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Christopher Collings, 49, White, was executed on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadeq Asadi executed in Yasuj on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Sa’adati executed in Rasht on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: COURT UPHOLDS TYCOON’S DEATH SENTENCE FOR $12BN BANK FRAUD
A Vietnamese court on December 3, 2024 rejected a real estate tycoon’s appeal, upholding the death sentence handed down for the embezzlement of $12bn.
DECEMBER 3, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Richard Tyrone Garcia, 41, Hispanic, sentenced to death
- DECEMBER 2, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE, TWO KIDS, MOTHER
The 5th Additional District and Sessions Court in Mysuru has sentenced a man to death for the murders of his pregnant wife, two children, and mother, the Indian Express reported on November 28, 2024.
- DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khadanur Gorgij executed on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PUSHING WIFE INTO SEA, USING INSURANCE PAYOUT ON PROSTITUTES
A man in China was sentenced to death after pushing his wife into the sea from a ferry and attempting to claim her life insurance compensation to pay off debts and finance the use of prostitutes.
DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Ahmadian executed in Gorgan on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 women and 2 men executed in Ilam on December 2
Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavari-Zadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beigi, Abdolvahab Babakhaniyan
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At least 126 prisoners executed during November 2024
Hengaw report
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shah-Bakhsh (Khanshini) executed in Zahedan on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Toomaj Salehi released
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farkhondeh Allah Moradi executed in Isfahan on December 1
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Peyman Zarei executed in Shiraz on December 1