2024

TONGA: LEGISLATORS REJECT DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG CRIMES

A public debate in Parliament this week rejected a suggestion that the death penalty be used to deter drug offenders, RNZ reported on May 31, 2024.

YEMEN: HOUTHIS SENTENCE 44 TO DEATH ON CHARGES OF COLLABORATION WITH A SAUDI-LED COALITION

A court run by Yemen's Houthi rebels on June 1st, 2024 sentenced 44 people to death, including a businessman working with aid groups, on spying charges, a defense lawyer said.

IRAQ HANGS EIGHT CONVICTED OF 'TERRORISM'

Iraq executed eight people convicted of "terrorism", a security source and health official said on May 31, 2024, the third such group put to death in the country in little over a month.

IRAN - Iman Rezaiepour executed in Neyshabur on June 2

IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on June 1

Mahmoud Qaedi, Hassan Ne'matollahi, and Mohammad Saeed Zohrabi

USA - Idaho. Chad Daybell, 55, White, sentenced to death on June 1

USA - Pennsylvania. State Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Kevin Dowling

65, White

USA - Arizona. US Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Danny Lee Jones

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL REPORT: DEATH SENTENCES AND EXECUTIONS 2023

Executions soared to their highest number in almost a decade in 2023 with a sharp rise across the Middle East, Amnesty International said today as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty.

USA - Alabama. Jamie Mills, 50, White, was executed on May 30

MALAYSIA: JAPANESE HAS DEATH SENTENCE REDUCED TO 30-YEAR PRISON TERM

Malaysia's top court commuted the death sentence imposed on a Japanese woman for drug trafficking to 30 years in prison on May 29, 2024, following a judicial reform that eliminated mandatory capital punishment for illicit drug trade and several other seri

BANGLADESH: BOTSWANA NATIONAL GETS DEATH PENALTY IN NARCOTICS CASE

A Dhaka court on May 27, 2024 awarded death penalty to Botswana national Lesedi Molapisi in a narcotics case filled over drug smuggling.

CHINA: FORMER CHINA HUARONG INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED GENERAL MANAGER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TAKING BRIBES

Bai Tianhui, former general manager of China Huarong International Holdings Limited, was sentenced to death for taking huge amounts of bribes by a court in Tianjin on May 28, 2024.

INDIA: UTTARAKHAND HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO RAPED HIS 5 YEAR OLD COUSIN SISTER MULTIPLE TIMES

The Uttarakhand High Court has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of repeatedly raping his five-year-old orphaned cousin, Lawbeat reported on May 28, 2024.

USA - Guantánamo prosecutors accused of “outrageous” misconduct

For trying to use torture testimony

MALAYSIA: FOUR JOHOREANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IN SABAH

Four Johoreans have been given the death penalty in Malaysia after they were found guilty of trafficking 34, 282.3 grams of drugs while travelling into Sandakan in 2020, The Star reported on May 9, 2024.

NIGERIA: TWO TO DIE BY HANGING FOR STEALING N105,000, PHONES, OTHERS IN EKITI

An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti division, on May 23, 2024 sentenced two persons, Benjamin Joseph (32), and Stephen Orban (25), to death by hanging for robbing two persons of cash and valuable items.

IRAQ: THREE ISIS FIGHTERS EXECUTED

The Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council announced on May 28, 2024 the execution of three ISIS fighters.

MALAYSIA: WOMAN'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO 33 YEARS IN JAIL FOR MURDER

The Federal Court on May 20, 2024 commuted the death sentence of a woman who murdered her close friend by stabbing her seven times to 33 years in jail.

INDIA: THREE, INCLUDING MOTHER, SON, SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KERALA FOR MURDERING 71-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOUR

A Kerala court on May 22, 2024 sentenced three accused, including a mother and her son, to death for murdering their 71-year-old neighbour near Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram in 2022.

IRAN - Samir Saeedi Rad executed in Qom on May 26

261 executions in Iran in 2024

IRAN - Alireza Arezoomandi and Samir Saeedirad executed in Qom on May 26

IRAN - Appeal of Jewish death row inmate Arvin Ghahremani dismissed

SYRIA: THREE DEATH SENTENCES IN ALEPPO COUNTRYSIDE FOR THE MURDER OF ABU GHANNOUM AND HIS WIFE

A military criminal court in the town of al-Rai in Aleppo’s countryside on May 22, 2024 issued a death sentence against the suspects involved in the assassination of activist Mohammed Abdul Latif (Abu Ghannoum) and his pregnant wife, about a year and a ha

SOMALIA: PUNTLAND MILITARY COURT SENTENCES FOUR AL-SHABAB AFFILIATES TO DEATH AND PRISON TERMS

A Puntland military court sentenced four defendants to death and prison terms on May 21, 2024 for their links to the al-Shabab militant group.

USA - Texas. Retired Detective Says There Was No Crime in Robert Roberson’s Case

EGYPT: TEACHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT

The Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced on May 21, 2024 a physics teacher to death for the premeditated murder of a high school student in Daqahliya governorate last February.

MALAYSIA: SIBU MAN HAS DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS’ JAIL IN 2013 TRIPLE MURDER

A 54-year-old man was spared the gallows on May 13, 2024 after the Federal Court commuted his death sentence for the 2013 murders of his wife and two children in Sibu to 40 years in prison.

BAHRAIN: KING TAKES ACTIVISTS BY SURPRISE WITH PARDON FOR AT LEAST 1,500 PRISONERS

Bahrain has unconditionally released more than 1,500 prisoners, including political detainees, in the biggest royal pardon since the 2011 Arab spring uprising, The Guardian reported on April 9, 2024.

BANGLADESH: TWO TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING SHOP EMPLOYEE IN RAJSHAHI

A Rajshahi court on May 15, 2024 sentenced two persons to death for killing an employee of a mobile phone shop in the district in 2021.