Archive timeline
2024
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2024, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 1,199
- Countries where they were recorded
- 20
- News items in the archive
- 1,357
Latest news of 2024
MAY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Raisi's death does not mean the closure of the case on his crimes
Ebrahim Raisi, the president of the Islamic Republic and a member of the "Death Committee"
MAY 20, 2024SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT RELEASES SIX MOROCCANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR REPATRIATION
A military court in Somalia has released the six Moroccan nationals who were recently sentenced to death by a military court in northern Somalia in late February.
MAY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - NCRI: Raisi’s Death Delivers Strategic Blow to Khamenei
Sparking Crises and Youth Rebellion in Iran
MAY 20, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. District Attorney Files Amicus Brief in Support of Toforest Johnson
MAY 20, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: NEARLY 100 DEATH SENTENCES, LIFE SENTENCES IN DRUG TRAFFICKING CRACKDOWN
Nearly 100 individuals – both Iraqi citizens and foreign nationals – were sentenced to death or life imprisonment on drug trafficking charges between 2023 and 2024, a spokesperson to the Interior Ministry said on May 15, 2024.
- MAY 20, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Death Row USA Fall 2023 Report
As of October 1, 2023: Continued Decline of Death Row Population
MAY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dissident Expresses Joy Amid Mourning for President Raisi
Saeed Afkari, brother of the executed wrestler Navid Afkari
MAY 20, 2024United KingdomDEATH PENALTYMay 20, 2024 . United Kingdom. Assange wins right to challenge US extradition
MAY 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fardin Musazadeh and Mehdi Khadem executed in Ardebil on May 19
MAY 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hatem Ozdemir sentenced to death once again
Kurdish Political Prisoner
MAY 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on May 19
Mojtaba Jouyandeh, Mostafa Aghaei, Nader Ghorbani + unidentified Afghan
MAY 19, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SHIITE MAN EXECUTED FOR THREATENING NATIONAL SECURITY
Saudi Arabia on May 13, 2024 executed a shiite man for threatening national security by financing terrorism and associating with terrorist elements.
MAY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 5 men executed in Urmia on May 18
Parvin Mousavi, Mansour Naseri, Parviz Qasemi, Yousef Saeedi, Ramin Lavandipour, and 'Jabali'
MAY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Hajizadeh and Kaveh Bashangeh executed in Salmas on May 18
MAY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Saadat executed in Miandoab on May 18
Arrested at the age of 17
MAY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 25 Kurdish executed in May
MAY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Abdollahi executed in Isfahan on May 18
MAY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 more xecuted in Ardabil on May 18
Hatef Sha'abani
MAY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fatemeh Abdollahi, a woman, executed in Neyshabur on May 18
10th woman executed in Iran in 2024
MAY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Young Jewish man at risk of execution
Arvin Ghahremani
MAY 16, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: SHARIA COURT SENTENCES BAUCHI MAN TO DEATH BY STONING FOR HOMOSEXUALITY
A middle-aged man, Abdullahi Sani from Unguwar Makara Huta, on May 10, 2024 was sentenced to death by stoning by a Sharia Court in Ningi, the headquarters of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, for alleged homosexuality.
MAY 16, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGH COURT LIMITS SOLITARY FOR DEATH ROW INMATES
A Bangladesh court ruled on May 13, 2024 that death row prisoners could not be held in solitary confinement until their appeals had been exhausted, in what lawyers called a major rights victory for inmates.
MAY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Urgent action to halt the execution of Parvin Mousavi
- MAY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Women Nobel Peace Laureates Call To End Iran’s Execution Spree
Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman and Leymah Gbowee
MAY 15, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Baghdad court on May 13, 2024 handed a death sentence for a drug dealer of foreign nationality accused of bringing narcotics into the country, state media reported.
MAY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Razieh, a woman, executed in Mashhad on May 15
238 executions in Iran in 2024
MAY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj on May 15
Political prisoner Khosrow Besharat + Mohammad-Reza Rahimpour, Sirus Hayatbini, Mohammad-Karim Fazeli, and an unidentified Afghan national
- MAY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Aslani executed in Qazvin on May 15
MAY 15, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Reynaldo Figueroa-Sanabria sentenced to death again
MAY 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Gholamhosseini and Farokh Khan Mohammadi executed in Ilam on May 14