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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
OCTOBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - List of 61 Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran
OCTOBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Shooli executed in Gachsaran on October 27
OCTOBER 25, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Robert J. Bailey sentenced to death for the 2nd time
OCTOBER 24, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BOMBAY HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN CONVICTED FOR MURDERING MOTHER, EATING HER ORGANS
The Bombay High Court on October 1st, 2024 upheld the death penalty awarded to a Kolhapur man for murdering his mother by disembowelling her body to eat her body parts in 2017.
OCTOBER 24, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SEVEN PEOPLE EXECUTED IN ONE DAY
Saudi Arabia executed seven individuals on October 23, 2024, including five for drug trafficking, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
OCTOBER 24, 2024KentuckyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Kentucky. State Supreme Court confirms suspension of executions
injunction halted executions in the commonwealth since 2010
OCTOBER 23, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: DEATH SENTENCE FOR TWO ISIS MEMBERS
The Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council on October 23, 2024 reported that two ISIS members were sentenced to death.
OCTOBER 23, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: APEX COURT COMMUTES EX-FACTORY WORKERS’ DEATH SENTENCES
Malaysia’s Federal Court has commuted the death sentences of two former factory workers to 34 years in prison, along with 12 strokes of the cane each, for the murder of an acquaintance 13 years ago.
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Central) on October 23
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OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Armin Aghcheli executed in Gorgan on October 23
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on October 23
Salam Babakhan Jafari, Mohammad Koushki, Arman Naserzadeh, and two unidentified Afghan nationals
- OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Dorostkar and Soleiman Malekinejad executed in Maragheh on October 21 and 23
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Haji Khani and Mehran Soltani executed in Zanjan on October 23
OCTOBER 23, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ronald Lopez Andrade sentenced to death
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Razavi Khaleghabadi executed on October 23 in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar)
OCTOBER 22, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN LABOUR LEADER’S MURDER CASE
A model court has handed down death sentence to a man in a five-year-old case pertaining to the murder of a labour leader, The News reported on October 19, 2024.
OCTOBER 22, 2024Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER REPORTED 24 YEARS AGO
A man was sentenced to death in Sri Lanka on October 16, 2024 over the murder of a person in Imaduwa in February 2000.
OCTOBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Cheraghi executed in Qorveh on 22 October
OCTOBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Dehghani executed in Malayer on October 22
OCTOBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Sangari and Abdolgharib Maleki executed in Qom on October 22
- OCTOBER 21, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: TEN ISLAMIC STATE MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH AND LIFE IN PRISON
Iraqi judges have handed down death sentences and life sentences to ten members of the Islamic State (IS) arrested in Nineveh province, Agenzia Nova reported on October 18, 2024, citing the Interior Ministry.
- OCTOBER 21, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: TWO SAUDIS EXECUTED FOR PLANNING SUICIDE ATTACK, JOINING TERRORIST GROUP
Two Saudis were executed on October 21, 2024 for committing acts of terrorism in the country, the Ministry of Interior announced.
OCTOBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Farhadzadeh and Hamid Chatrsimabeh executed in Jiroft on October 21
OCTOBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahman Sheikh-Hosseini executed in Birjand on October 20
OCTOBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 4 men executed in Tabriz on October 20
Ms Nasrin Firoozi, Siamak Mulaii (Molaei), Hassan Yousefi, Mohammad Amin Noorafkan (Nourafkan), and Mohammad …
OCTOBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Saber (Saberi) executed in Malayer on October 20
- OCTOBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Abbasi executed in Rasht on October 19
- OCTOBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Ebrahimi and Behzad Ghaffari (Ghafari) executed in Tabriz on October 19
OCTOBER 18, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Governor DeWine grants reprieves to 3 death row inmates
Executions for Stanley Adams, John Drummond, and James Hanna postponed to 2028
- OCTOBER 17, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FORMER DEPUTY CENTRAL BANK HEAD GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR TAKING BRIBES
China's former deputy central bank governor, Fan Yifei, has been sentenced to death for taking bribes with a two-year reprieve, state media said on October 10, 2024, amid a sweeping anti-graft drive in the financial sector.