2024

IRAN - Mohammad Shams executed in Hamedan on December 18

914 executions so far in 2024

IRAN - Rahim Barin and Jamal Naboureh (Noboure) executed in Mahabad on December 18

BANGLADESH: HIGH COURT COMMUTES ULFA LEADER'S DEATH SENTENCE

A Bangladeshi High Court on December 18, 2024 commuted the death sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Barua to life imprisonment and acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 case of attempted smuggling of weapons.

IRAN - Mojtaba Jamshidian and Jebrael Naseri were executed in Rasht on December 14 and 18

IRAN - Mohammad Shamsollahi executed in Hamedan on December 18

DEATH PENALTY. HANDS OFF CAIN, ANOTHER STEP TOWARD WORLDWIDE ABOLITION

The United Nations General Assembly has just passed its 10th Resolution for a universal moratorium on executions.

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG THREE INDIVIDUALS FOR ‘SODOMY’

Taliban authorities have publicly flogged three Individuals for “sodomy” in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, amid a recent surge in corporal punishment.

CHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR CORRUPTION-RELATED CRIMES

Li Jianping, a former official in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was executed on December 17, 2024.

IRAN - UN 71st Resolution Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Violations, Targeted Repression of Women

USA - Texas. Lawmakers issue new subpoena for Robert Roberson's testimony

IRAN - Jamal Asgarabadi executed in Sari on December 17

IRAN - 1 woman, 3 men executed in Sari on December 17

IRAN - Saman Mohammadi Khiareh at Imminent Risk of Execution

Kurdish political prisoner

VIETNAM: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 100 KG OF DRUGS

A Vietnamese-Canadian man, along with three accomplices, was sentenced to death on December 16, 2024 for trafficking over 100 kg of drugs into Vietnam.

USA - Florida. Judge Angela Cowden formally sentenced Zephen Xaver to five death sentences

IRAN - Behzad Seyedi Bukani executed in Miandoab on December 16

IRAN - Ghorban Razi and Mohammad Kasrani executed in Tabriz on December 15

IRAN - Hamzeh Mirzapour executed in Gorgan on December 15

IRAN - 4 Men Executed in Zahedan on December 15

Mohammad Vazir Roudini, Yaghoub Barahouyi Moghaddam, Elias Tardast and Alireza Galebacheh

ZIMBABWE: SENATE APPROVES BILL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY

Zimbabwe’s Senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, a key step in scrapping a law last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago.

IRAN - 6 men + 1 woman executed in Yazd on December 15

Mohammad Ali Kharkouhi, Reza Kharkouhi, Abdolbaset Toutazehi, Abdolnasser Toutazehi, Ne’matollah Toutazehi, Salah Rahimi + unidentified woman

IRAN - Hadi Molakazemi executed in Semnan on December 15

IRAN - Ali Morad Dehghani Executed in Nahavand on December 15

IRAN - 2 more executions in Yazd on December 15

Karim Eslami and Najaf Rahmani

IRAN - Hassan Ebrahimi Geravand executed in Malayer on December 14

IRAN - Hossein Koulivand executed in Arak on December 14

IRAN - Hamed Basirat and Ali Akbar Gharib Sarduiyee executed in Roudbar on December 9 and 14

IRAN - Abdolkarim Shokati Timouri executed in Mashhad on December 12

USA - Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people

For non-violent crimes

MOROCCO TO BACK UN RESOLUTION FOR A UNIVERSAL MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY

Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi on December 9, 2024 said Morocco will vote in favor of the tenth United Nations resolution on a moratorium on the application of the death penalty.