2024

IRAN - Abdullah Azbakzehi and Khalilullah Barahoei executed in Kahnoj on May 8

IRAN - Houshang Nourollahi Younjanlou and Mohammad Afghan executed in Gorgan on May 8

IRAQ EXECUTES 11 PEOPLE CONVICTED OF TERRORISM

Iraqi authorities on May 6, 2024 executed by hanging 11 people convicted of “terrorism”, security and health sources told AFP, the second such group put to death since late April.

USA - Under 1% of Catholics follow the Pope on abortion, death penalty, euthanasia

NIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES THREE TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN EKITI

An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced three persons, Oyebanji Sola, Jimoh Azeez and Ogunlade Babatunde, to death by hanging for armed robbery.

IRAN - Hassan Moharrer executed in Urmia on May 7

USA - Oklahoma. Conservative Officials, Oklahoma Lawmakers, and Civil Rights Groups support Richard Glossip

USA - America’s prison system is turning into a de facto nursing home

More and more older people are spending their dying years behind bars

SAUDI ARABIA: ESCALATING CONCERNS OVER THE LIVES OF MINORS THREATENED WITH DEATH

Saudi Arabia’s court of appeal in April 2024 approved death sentences for two Saudi men for protest-related crimes allegedly committed as children, Human Rights Watch and 26 other organizations said on April 29, 2024 in a joint statement.

INDIA: CBI COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO FOUR CONVICTS IN NUH GANGRAPES, DOUBLE MURDER CASE

A special CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) court in Haryana's Panchkula awarded the death sentence to four convicts in the 2016 Nuh gangrapes and double murder case on May 4, 2024, officials said.

USA - Lethal drugs source of 2020/21 federal executions confirmed

Connecticut-based "Absolute Standards Inc."

DR CONGO: 8 TROOPS HANDED DESERTION DEATH SENTENCE

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn east on May 3, 2024 handed a death sentence to eight soldiers, including five officers, for desertion and cowardice when fighting M23 rebels.

IRAN - Ali Asghar Falah executed in Qom on May 5

IRAN - Political prisoner Mahmood Mehrabi sentenced to death

On May 5

IRAN - Hossein Bayazidi executed in Isfahan on May 5

USA - Texas. Jerry Don Elders, 42, White, sentenced to death

IRAN - Soraya Mohammadi executed in Karaj on April 24

MALAYSIA: EX-POLICEMEN'S DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS IN JAIL FOR KILLING MECHANIC

Two former policemen escaped the gallows after the Federal Court’s three-member panel on April 30, 2024 commuted the death sentences imposed on them to 40 years in jail for the murder of an Indonesian mechanic 18 years ago.

BANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HABIGANJ MURDER CASE

A court in Habiganj has sentenced seven people to death and 10 others to life imprisonment on the charge of killing a man at Sadar upazila in 2003.

PAKISTAN: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN FAMILY MURDER CASE

Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Faisal Rasheed on April 30, 2024 delivered the verdict in the murder case involving nine women and young girls from the same family residing in the limits of Chauntra police station.

IRAN - Maybe the woman identifies as Shahnaz was not executed

IRAN - Yaghoub Amiri executed in Ardabil on May 2

198 executions in 2024

IRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on May 2

Mehdi Habibi, Saeed Ranjdoust, and Saber Aminabadi

USA - Pennsylvania. Heather Pressdee Gets Life Sentence in 17 Insulin Deaths

IRAN - Mohammad Rasoul Khoshkar executed in Tabriz on May 2

Three other executions were already known

USA - Federal prosecutors won't challenge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeal case

Boston Marathon bomber

USA - (Military). Sept. 11 Trial Plea Negotiations Still Underway at Guantánamo Bay

IRAN - Anwar Khezri Executed in Karaj on May 1

A Kurdish religious prisoner

IRAN - Ali Ashraf Khani executed in Kermanshah on May 1

IRAN - 4 more men executed in Karaj on May 1

arzad Geravand, Majid Barati, Reza Shir-Zahi and Majid Hajbari