2024

USA - Florida. Death penalty for Patrick McDowell, 27, White

IRAN - Javad Asgari executed in Arak on April 24

IRAN - Toomaj Salehi, a protest rapper, sentenced to death

BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIS NIECE IN NATORE

A tribunal has sentenced a man to death over the rape and murder of his niece, a student in 12th grade, in Natore’s Singra Upazila.

IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on April 24

Shahram Sharghi, Ali Reza Aghaei and Pezhman Azizi

PAKISTAN: STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ‘BLASPHEMOUS’ WHATSAPP MESSAGES

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death on charges of blasphemy over Whatsapp messages, BBC reported on April 8, 2024.

USA - Texas. Paige Lawyer, 44, Black, sentenced to death

USA - Oklahoma. House approves SB 1702

Increases the level of secrecy around executions

IRAN - Yavar Aminkhah executed in Saveh on April 24

IRAN - Iranian Rapper's Death Sentence Changed To 5 Years In Prison

Kurdish dissident rapper Saman Yasin was arrested during nationwide protests in 2022

BANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING TRIO IN CTG

A Chattogram court on April 18, 2024 awarded death penalty to two men for killing three members of a family in city's Biyazid Bostami Thana area 19 years ago.

NIGERIA: OSUN COURT SENTENCES TWO SERIAL ROBBERS TO DEATH BY HANGING

An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, on April 18, 2024 sentenced Wasiu Afolayan (36) and Kola Adeyemi (34), to death by hanging for offences bordering on conspiracy and armed robbery.

IRAN - Hossein Ali Sobhani executed in Gorgan on April 23

USA - Oklahoma. Attorney General Gentner Drummond asks to halt the execution of Richard Glossip

USA - Tennessee. HB1663 passes House. Already passed Senate.

Death penalty for child rapists

IRAQ: TWO ISIS-LINKED INDIVIDUALS SENTENCED TO DEATH

The Central Criminal Court under the Iraqi Judiciary Council on April 22, 2024 handed a death sentence to two individuals linked to ISIS.

INDIA: LUDHIANA WOMAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR BURYING TODDLER ALIVE

Ludhiana resident Neelam Kaur, 38, was on April 18, 2024 sentenced to death for burying alive Dilroz Kaur, the two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of her neighbour, Harpreet Singh, who is a police constable, after an argument with his family three years ago.

USA - California. Prosecutors excluded Jewish and Black jurors

USA - Prosecutor Says Sept. 11 Suspects Can Be Held Past War Crimes Sentence

ZIMBABWE FREES PRISONERS, INCLUDING THOSE SENTENCED TO DEATH, IN AN INDEPENDENCE DAY AMNESTY

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on April 18, 2024.

IRAN - Abdolbari Pashtu and Alireza Pourshahbaz (Shahbaz) executed in Karaj on April 21

IRAN - 3 men executed in Taybad on April 21

Esmaeil Esmaeil-Zadeh, Mohammad-Amin Mohammad-Pour + Unk

IRAN - Ali Khoshavaz executed in Karaj on April 21

IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on April 21

Hossein Tawana Kodiani, Reza Masrour, Taleb Akbari

IRAN - 5 men executed in Kerman on April 20

Ahmadreza Miri, Shamseddin Kashani, Shokat Shehbakhsh (Darkzehi), Jamal Mardani + Unk

IRAN - Saeed Jadgal and Mohammad Anjamrooz executed in Chabahar on April 20

IRAN - 4 men executed in Mashhad on April 18

Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Ghader Samani, and Ebrahim Nour-Zahi

MALAYSIA: 54 PRISONERS ESCAPE DEATH SENTENCE, SENTENCES COMMUTED TO 30-38 YEARS JAIL 

A total of 54 prisoners escaped death by hanging in Malaysia, after the Federal Court, sitting at the High Court in Kota Baru, Malaysia, on April 18, 2024, commuted their sentences to imprisonment between 30 and 38 years.

MOROCCO: MAIN PERPETRATOR IN HIT-AND-RUN MURDER OF UNIVERSITY STUDENT RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY

The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal in Casablanca delivered its verdict on April 16, 2024 in the case of the hit-and-run murder of university student Badr.

IRAN - Fariborz Dadgar executed in Ahvaz on April 18