2024

INDIA: ODISHA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE FOR GIVING BIRTH TO SECOND GIRL CHILD

A court in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar on August 1, 2024 sentenced a man to death for repeatedly stabbing his wife to death and attempting to murder his six-year-old daughter by slitting her throat two years ago.

IRAN - Reza Rasaei executed in Kermanshah on August 6

Political prisoner arrested during the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement

USA - Ohio. David Lee Myers granted new trial in 1988 murder

IRAN - Akbar Gohari executed in Sabzevar on August 6

SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES CONVICTED ROBBERY GANG OF FIVE

Saudi authorities have executed five individuals convicted of robbery, kidnapping, and killing an Indian man, Gulf News reported on August 2, 2024.

SINGAPORE: MAN HANGED FOR TRAFFICKING 36G OF HEROIN

Singapore on August 2, 2024 hanged a convicted drug trafficker, authorities said, in the city-state's second execution this year.

IRAN - Hoy Atef ... executed in Bushehr on August 4

IRAN - Mehdi Hosseini and Amir Tasbihi executed in Arak on August 4

IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on August 3

Javad Amiri, Naghi Ghorbani, and Reza Rostami

IRAN - Hossein Salehi and Morteza Seifzadeh executed in Tabriz on August 3

IRAN - Malek Ashtar and Ahmadreza Toni executed in Khorramabad on August 3

USA - U.S. defense secretary rejects plea deal for 9/11 mastermind

Puts death penalty back on table

IRAN - Hamed Parseh + Unk. executed in Khorramabad on August 1

NIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES 3 PERSONS TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY, MURDER IN OSUN STATE

A watchmaker, Oludayo Oladele, an electrician, Awodeji Muyiwa, and a herb seller, Jelili Kareem on July 9, 2024 were sentenced to death for robbing and killing a corps member, Adebayo Mukaila in Osogbo, Osun State capital.

USA - California. Curtis Lee Ervin must either be retried or released

IRAN - Heshmat Moradian executed in Yasuj on July 31

IRAN - Fazl Ahmad Fatehnia executed in Zahedan on July 31

MALAYSIA: APPEALS COURT REINSTATES DEATH PENALTY FOR SIX EX-UPNM STUDENTS IN FATAL BULLYING CASE

The Court of Appeal has sent six former National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) cadets to the gallows for the murder of fellow cadet Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain seven years ago, The Star reported on July 23, 2024.

IRAN - Kazem Fatehi executed in Isfahan on July 31

BELARUS: PRESIDENT LUKASHENKO PARDONS GERMAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON TERRORISM CHARGES

Belarus’ authoritarian leader on July 30, 2024 granted a pardon to a German citizen who had been sentenced to death on terrorism charges.

USA - Accused Sept. 11 Plotters Agree to Plead Guilty at Guantánamo Bay

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi

USA - Florida. White woman who wrongfully accused ‘Groveland Four’ of rape dies at 92

Norma Padget falsely accused 4 Black men of rape in 1949

USA - South Carolina. Supreme Court rules that firing squad is legal

PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY

Mardan Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on July 27, 2024 convicted a man of committing blasphemy and sentenced him to death along with a fine of Rs100,000.

IRAQ: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DHI QAR OFFICIAL

An Iraqi court in Baghdad sentenced a person to death on July 29, 2024 for killing a Dhi Qar counterterrorism official earlier this year.

SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI MAN EXECUTED IN HEROINE SMUGGLING

A Pakistani citizen on July 29, 2024 was executed in a heroine smuggling case in Saudi Arabia.

IRAN - Nabi Bakhsh Molazehi executed in Minab on July 30

IRAN - Mahim Jangizehi executed in Minab on July 29

IRAN - 3 men and 1 woman executed in Khorramabad on July 27

Ardeshir Maleki, Azim Amrayi (Emraei), … Farrokhnejad + Unk.

PAKISTAN: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2021 MURDER IN KORANGI

A model court in Pakistan on July 24, 2024 sentenced four men to death for murdering a teacher over a monetary issue.