2024

LIBYA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER CASE

The Misrata Criminal Court has sentenced one person to death and imprisoned three others in the case of the murder of citizen Abdul Rahman Ali Ishteiwi, Libya Observer reported on June 13, 2024.

NIGERIA: PLATEAU, OGUN, KADUNA GOVS PARDON 164 PRISONERS

In commemoration of Democracy Day on June 12, 2024, the Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, granted pardon to 13 inmates serving various jail terms in the state.

USA - Florida. Markas Fishburne sentenced to death

30, Black

INDIA: 2 BROTHERS GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, BURNING MINOR GIRL IN RAJASTHAN

Two men convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in August last year - by burning her alive in a coal furnace - were sentenced to death on May 18, 2024 by a special court in Rajasthan's Bhilwara.

BANGLADESH: YOUTH GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD IN CTG

A Chattogram court on June 9, 2024 sentenced a youth to death for killing a five-year-old child at Mirsari upazila in the district in 2010.

IRAN - Homayoun Salami executed in Hamedan on June 12

USA - Alabama. Jury recommends death sentence for Michael Collin Mitchell

43, Black

USA - Florida. Howard Steven Ault sentenced to death, again

for the murders of two young girls

KUWAIT: COURT ON CASSATION SENTENCES TWO IRANIANS TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

In a recent ruling, the Kuwait Court of Cassation, led by Counselor Sultan Bouresli, has upheld the death penalty by hanging for two Iranian nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle 189 kilograms of hashish and psychotropic substances by sea from Kubb

IRAQ: 7 DRUG TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH

An Iraqi court has sentenced seven individuals to death for drug trafficking, including one foreign national. The Central Criminal Court’s decision, announced on June 9, 2024 by the Supreme Judicial Council

USA - Missouri. David Hosier, 69, White, was executed

7th prisoner executed in the U.S. this year

AFRICAN COURT GIVES TANZANIA SIX MONTHS ULTIMATUM TO SCRAP DEATH PENALTY

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has reiterated its longstanding order to Tanzania to revoke the death penalty in line with the continental charter on the right to life, The East African reported on June 6, 2024.

BANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR KILLING EASYBIKE DRIVER IN JAMALPUR

A court in Jamalpur on June 9, 2024 sentenced four people to death for the murder of an Easybike driver in the district's Sarishabari upazila.

Iran - Mostafa Alipour executed in Yazd on June 9

SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES THREE MEN FOR MURDER OF TWO BROTHERS IN DHUSAMAREB

A Somali military court in Galmudug State executed three men in a public square in Dhusamareb town on June 6, 2024 for the murder of two brothers in December 2023.

IRAN - Death sentence of Seyed Mohammad-Javad Vafaie overturned

Political prisoner

IRAN - Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence

IRAN - Hatem Özdemir appeals death sentence to higher Iranian court

Kurdish political prisoner belonging to the People Defense Forces

VIETNAM: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO KILLED PARENTS WHILE HIGH ON DRUGS

A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced a man to death on June 4, 2024 for murdering both of his parents during a drug-induced hallucination.

IRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Sunni Cleric Mohammad Khezrnejad

PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, TWO CHILDREN

An antiterrorism court (ATC) in Karachi handed down death sentence on four counts to a man for murdering his wife, two minor children and a young brother-in-law over domestic issues in 2017, Dawn reported on June 1st, 2024.

USA - Maryland. Kenneth J. Lighty gets 2 life sentences at resentencing

Federal sentence

NIGERIA: WOMAN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR MURDERING EX-HUSBAND

A High Court in Birnin Kebbi on June 3, 2024 sentenced a woman, Farida Abubakar, to death by hanging for killing her former husband, Chief Magistrate Attahiru Muhammad-Ibrahim.

PAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ATTOCK

In a landmark verdict handed down on June 3, 2024, a murder convict was sentenced to death by the Attock judiciary for his involvement in a murder case dating back to 2021.

SUDAN: MAN AND WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH

Ed Damazin Court in Blue Nile region issued a death sentence against civil servant El Habib Eisa on June 3, 2024, after he was accused of “undermining the constitutional order.”

IRAN - Nader Khosrawi and Nasrollah Ayoubi executed in Zanjan on June 5

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS 30 INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING A WOMAN, IN THE PAST FOUR DAYS

The Taliban has publicly flogged 30 individuals, including a woman, on multiple charges in the provinces of Ghor, Paktika, Ghazni, Khost, and Kunduz in the last four days, kabulnow.com reported on June 4, 2024.

INDIA: NAGPUR MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, MURDERING GIRL, 5, IN 2019

A man was sentenced to death on June 3, 2024 by a Nagpur court for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in 2019.

BANGLADESH: FIVE GET DEATH PENALTY IN JASHORE MURDER CASE

A court in Jashore on May 20, 2024 sentenced five people to death for killing an easy-bike driver at Sadar upazila of the district in 2011.

IRAN - Havel Prize Awarded to Toomaj Salehi

Dissident Iranian Rapper