2024

NIGERIA: DELTA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING TWINS FOR RITUALS

A High Court sitting at Asaba, the Delta State capital, on July 16,2024 sentenced one Onuwa Ijie to death, and Nwanozie Uzor to 14 years imprisonment for murder and conspiracy to commit the murder of twin boys, Chidalu and Chigozie Agwunobi.

IRAN - Ghadir Jamshidi executed in Torbat-e Jam on July 25

IRAN - Kamran Sheikheh executed in Urmia on July 25

Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner

USA - Utah. Death sentence of Doug Lovell overturned

IRAN - Hasan Yousefi Azar executed in Urmia on July 25

IRAN - Ali Moharramkhani and Hamed Naderi executed in Qazvin on July 25

IRAN - Ramezan Gholamian and Mousa Najar executed in Mashhad on July 24

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED OVER TERROR CRIME

Saudi Arabia has issued a statement informing citizens and residents of a death sentence being carried out against a Saudi national, Khaleej Times reported on July 23, 2024.

INDIA: KERALA HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF PATHANAMTHITTA MAN WHO KILLED NEPHEWS AGED 3 & 7

The Kerala High Court has commuted the death penalty imposed upon Thomas Chacko (aka Shibu) of Keekozhur, Ranni, to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment without remission for murdering his nephews aged 3 and 7 over a property dispute, Manorama Online reporte

IRAN - Ramezan … executed in Mashhad on July 24

IRAN - Mutiullah Barakzai executed in Qaen on July 24

IRAQ: 10 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN NASIRIYAH'S CENTRAL PRISON FOR TERRORISM

Iraqi authorities on July 22, 2024 hanged 10 people convicted of "terrorism", security and health sources said.

IRAN - 4 men and 3 women executed in Birjand on July 23

Amir Hamzeh Barahooie Mojarrad, Vahid Vahdani + 5 Unk

IRAN - Pakhshan Azizi, a political detainee, sentenced to death

IRAN - Gulab Shah Nurzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on July 23

PAKISTAN: MOBILE SNATCHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING KARACHI YOUTH

A sessions court in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on July 13, 2024 sentenced a convict to death on charges of killing a youth in 2018 for resisting robbery.

MALAYSIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING ADOPTIVE PARENTS IN NILAI

A 45-year-old man was ordered to be sent to the gallows by the High Court in Seremban after he was found guilty of the double murders of his adoptive parents, The Star reported on July 4, 2024.

BELARUS: GERMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 'MERCENARY ACTIVITY'

The German Foreign Ministry confirmed on July 19, 2024 that a German national has been sentenced to death in Belarus and said Berlin was in intensive contact with authorities in Minsk over his fate.

USA - South Carolina. Quincy Allen resentenced to life without parole

IRAN - Hassan Falahi executed in Qom on July 22

IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on July 21

Davood Brahui, Saeed Mohammadpour, Mehdi-Ali Akbari + unidentified Afghan

IRAN - Daniyal Kazeminejad executed in Kermanshah on July 21

On charges of murdering a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

IRAN - 3 men and 1 woman executed in Shiraz on July 20

Mansour Tavakoli, Hamed Shekasteh, Mohsen Ostovari, and … Mahmoudinia

USA - Florida. Judge Dawn Nichols sentenced James Guzman to death

Following the March 31 jury’s recommendation

IRAN - Saeed Sepahvand executed in Khorramabad on July 20

IRAN - Saeed Sepahvand executed in Khorramabad on July 20

USA - Georgia. Prosecutor Withheld Critical Evidence in Warren King’s trial

USA - Missouri. Sandra Hemme, now 64, White, was freed on July 19

After 44 years in prison for a murder she did not commit

MALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF ZARA’S MURDERER

The Federal Court on July 2, 2024 upheld the death sentence imposed on a former barber for the murder of an 11-month-old baby girl known as ‘Zara’ who suffered serious vaginal injuries due to sexual assault, six years ago.

SOMALIA: TWO EX-SECURITY OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF STUDENT

Two former security officials on July 16, 2024 were sentenced to death in Somalia for murder of a student.