2024

IRAN - Unk executed in Fars province on December 24

930 executions in 2024

CHINA: 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.

IRAN - Amin Farahmand executed in Shiraz on December 24

IRAN - Rahm Khani executed in Navahand on December 24

IRAN - 48th week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign

IRAN - Abdulrahman Eshaqzahi executed in Mashhad on December 24

IRAN - Hamed Khosravi and Davood Qalijkhani executed in Birjand on December 24

IRAN - Asghar Ghaffari executed in Qom on December 24

IRAN - Yarhossein Shokri executed in Khorramabad on December 24

USA - Biden commutes 37 of the 40 federal death sentences

Before Trump can resume executions

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.

USA - List of 37 commuted by Biden

THAILAND: 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.

IRAN - Singer Parastoo Ahmadi and Musicians Charged Over Virtual Concert

IRAN - Loghman Ahmadi Aghdam executed in Urmia on December 23

IRAN - Hossein Arjmand executed in Arak on December 23

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.

IRAN - Sadegh Johari and Karim Oladi executed in Qazvin on December 22

IRAN - Soltan Jahantigh executed in Zahedan on December 21

IRAN - Arman Samadi executed in Isfahan on December 21

IRAN - Ashkan Parseh executed in Isfahan on 21 December

IRAN - Hamid Moradian executed in Kermanshah on December 21

USA - Oklahoma. Kevin Ray Underwood, 45, White, was executed on December 19

USA - “The Death Penalty in 2024: Year End Report”

25 executions, 26 new death sentences

CHINA: 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.

USA - Texas. Attorney General Refuses to Cooperate with Committee Subpoena for Robert Roberson

Blocking His Testimony for the 2nd Time

IRAN - Ramin Kabiri executed in Miandoab on December 19

NIGERIA: 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.

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

USA - Indiana. Joseph Corcoran, 49, White, was executed