2024

IRAN - Milad Ekhlaspour executed in Kerman on September 26

IRAN - Mahmoud Ataei executed in Isfahan on September 26

IRAN - Amir Parsa Hassanzadeh executed in Isfahan on September 26

IRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 25

Rasoul Shenbandi and Akbar Saadi-Khani

INDIA: 4 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 3 RELATIVES OVER PROPERTY DISPUTE

A fast-track court (FTC) in Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) has sentenced a 32-year-old man from Etawah to death for his involvement in the murder of his three relatives, including a couple in their early 50s and their minor son, in a 12-year-old property disput

SAUDI ARABIA: COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST RETIRED TEACHER OVER POSTS ON X

A Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a former teacher over social media posts made from anonymous accounts with 10 followers, a UK-based human rights group reported on August 7, 2024.

IRAN - Yaser Balandeh Executed in Jiroft Prison on September 25

IRAN - 2 men executed in Karaj on September 25

The identities of the men were not disclosed

IRAN - Kambakhsh Mahmoudi executed in Kermanshah on September 25

USA - Texas. Travis Mullis, 38, White, was executed on September 24

For killing his 3-month-old son Alijah in 2008

IRAN - Ali Afrooz and Amirhossein Boroumand executed in Lahijan on September 24

EGYPT: SERIAL KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING

The South Cairo Criminal Court on September 12, 2024 sentenced an English teacher to death by hanging for torturing and killing three women earlier this year.

PAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY ON WHATSAPP

Shagufta Kiran, a 40-year-old Pakistani Christian woman, was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death under Article 295-C of the Penal Code for defaming the Prophet Muhammad through a message on the social media WhatsApp, Agenzia Fides reported on

VIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING, RAPING HANOI WOMAN

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 21-year-old woman who worked as an apartment manager in Hanoi.

USA - Missouri. Marcellus Williams, 55, Black, was executed on September 24

Over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor

YEMEN: JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HOUTHI-CONTROLLED GROUP

The owner of media companies Yemen Digital Media and Yemen Live for Media Production and Satellite Broadcasting, Taha Ahmed Rashid Al-Maamari, on September 24, 2024 was sentenced to death by a Houthi-controlled court

IRAN - Malek-Hossein Torkashvand executed in Hamedan on September 23

TAIWAN COURT RULES DEATH PENALTY CONSTITUTIONAL BUT ONLY FOR MOST SERIOUS CRIMES

Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on September 20, 2024 that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes with the most rigorous legal scrutiny, after considering a petition brought by 37 people who are on death row.

IRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on September 23

Hassan Nejati, Mohammadreza Nejati, Fardin Ahmadi, and Amin Shahabi

PAKISTAN: SHANGLA COURT AWARDS DEATH TO FOUR IN MURDER CASE

Shangla District and sessions judge on September 21, 2024 handed down death sentence to four ‘contract killers’ and life imprisonment to five others for killing three brothers and their father over property dispute in Bagyar area of Puran in 2021.

IRAN - Saeed Alimardani and Mohammad Ghasaban executed in Qazvin on September 23

IRAN - Fardin Ahmadi executed in Shiraz on September 23

IRAN - Khodamorad Zandi executed in Boroujerd on September 23

IRAN - 4 men executed in Rasht on September 11 and 23

Mostafa Amani, Nasrollah Pirasteh, Arman Atayi and Ramin Poursafar

URGENT APPEAL TO STOP THE EXECUTION OF MR BEHROUZ EHSANI AND MR MEHDI HASSANI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POLITICAL REASONS IN IRAN

Hands off Cain appeals to Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, Volker Türk, High Commissioner for human rights, and Antonio Tajani, Minister for foreign affairs of Italy, to intervene to avoid Mr Behrouz Ehsani’s and Mr. Mehdi Hassan

IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Vafaie Thani Sentenced to Death for the Third Time

After a Retrial

USA - South Carolina. Freddie Owens, 46, Black, was executed

The state restarted executions after a 13-year pause

IRAN - Akbar Azizi and Hamed Jahedi executed in Karaj on September 19

SOMALIA: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO BURNED PREGNANT WIFE

The Supreme Court of Somalia on September 18, 2024 upheld the death sentence for Sayid-Ali Moalim Daud, who was convicted of the brutal murder of his pregnant wife, Luul Abdiaziz, in January 2024.

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDERING WIFE

A Saudi man was executed after he was convicted of murdering his wife by beating and burning her.