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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 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Bakhshayesh was executed in Rasht on October 9
OCTOBER 9, 2024NevadaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Nevada. Robert Brown sentenced to death
1st death penalty verdict in Nevada in over 5 years
OCTOBER 8, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT SENTENCES THREE DRUG TRAFFICKERS TO DEATH
Iraq’s Central Criminal Court has sentenced three drug traffickers to death for their involvement in the trafficking of narcotic substances, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported on October 6, 2024.
OCTOBER 8, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD
A local court in Sangareddy district of Telangana on September 12, 2024 awarded death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in October 2023.
OCTOBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The regime has executed more than 250 people since Massoud Pezeshkian became president
The “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign entered its 37th week
OCTOBER 8, 2024SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: 18 OPPONENTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
In September, a court in Dongola sentenced 17 RSF fighters and one civilian to death for an attack on Merowe airport, Sudan Tribune reported on October 4, 2024.
OCTOBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence Overturned for Political Prisoner Mahmood Mehrabi
- OCTOBER 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Torbat-e Heydariyyeh on October 3
OCTOBER 7, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
The high court in Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala, has commuted the death sentence awarded to Rajith, the prime convict in the 2013 murder case of a four-year-old girl in Chottanikkara, to life imprisonment, Times of India reported on September 14, 2
OCTOBER 7, 2024SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: DEATH SENTENCE IN PORT SUDAN HIGHLIGHTS CRACKDOWN ON RSF SYMPATHIZERS
A Sudanese court has sentenced a man to death for supporting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), state media reported on October 4, 2024, underscoring the escalating legal crackdown on perceived opponents in areas under military control.
OCTOBER 7, 2024DelawareDEATH PENALTYUSA - Delaware. Delaware Officially Removes Death Penalty from State Statutes
8 Years After State Supreme Court Finds It Unconstitutional
- OCTOBER 6, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR SEVEN FILIPINOS
Malaysia’s Federal Court on October 2, 2024 upheld the death sentences of seven Filipino men, including a nephew of self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram, for waging war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia) during the Lahad Datu in
OCTOBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habibullah Mohammadzehi executed in Bam on October 6
OCTOBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Younes Piroozi executed in Ardabil on October 6
OCTOBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ashkan Yari executed in Hamedan on October 5
- OCTOBER 3, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO KILLED MOTHER
The Putrajaya Court of Appeal on August 26, 2024 commuted the death sentence to 40 years in prison for a man who murdered his mother and dumped her body in a septic tank six years ago.
- OCTOBER 3, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINOR GIRL IN SAMBALPUR
A special POCSO court in Sambalpur on October 1st, 2024 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Jamankira area of Sambalpur.
OCTOBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Hariri and Reza Soleimanzadeh executed in Gorgan on October 3.
OCTOBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Tayeb Mansouri executed in Isfahan on October 3
- OCTOBER 2, 2024JapanDEATH PENALTY
ABOLISHING JAPAN'S DEATH PENALTY ‘INAPPROPRIATE’: JUSTICE MINISTER
Newly appointed Justice Minister Hideki Makihara said on October 2, 2024 that abolishing the death penalty in Japan, where there have been no executions in over two years, would be "inappropriate" as the public largely considers it "unavoidable for heinou
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj on October 2
Ali Mamashlou and Morteza Abdolhosseinpour
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Nowruzi (Norouzi) executed in Mashhad on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Garcia White, 61, Black, was executed on October 2
- OCTOBER 2, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: EX-GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THEFT
A Hanoi court sentenced the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology’s former chief accountant to death after Nguyen Hoang was convicted of embezzling more than 152 billion dong ($6.2 million), the Vietnam government’s website reported on September
OCTOBER 2, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: LHC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY AGAINST 14 GANG MEMBERS
The Multan Bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on September 12, 2024 upheld death sentence handed down to 14 members of the Chhotu Gang of the riverine area in a case of killing six policemen.
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Shahbazi and Fazlollah Pournasiri executed in Karaj on October 2
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men 1 woman executed in Karaj on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Feizi (Feyzi) executed in Tabriz on October 2
21 Women Executed in 2024
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayat Abdolfathi executed in Ahvaz on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 2
Mohammad Chaman Pira, Abbas Khodayari and Seyed Naser Hosseini