2024

BANGLADESH: THREE TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER IN FARIDPUR

A Faridpur court has sentenced three people to death and three others to life term imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of a student in Nagarkanda upazila of the district.

MALAYSIA: TWO FILIPINAS ESCAPE DEATH SENTENCE AFTER APEX COURT GRANTS 30 YEARS’ JAIL FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Two Filipinas, who had been on death row in Malaysia since 2013, were granted a reprieve when the Federal Court on March 26, 2024 granted them a revision of their sentence, bringing it down to 30 years’ jail.

YEMEN: HOUTHIS SENTENCE MEN TO DEATH, FLOGGING

A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an unfair mass trial based on dubious charges of “sodomy,” Human Rights Watch said on March 27, 2024.

TUNISIA: FOUR PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2013 ASSASSINATION OF POLITICIAN

A Tunisian court on March 27, 2024 sentenced four people to death and two to life in prison on charges of participating in the murder of prominent political leader Chokri Belaid 11 years ago.

USA - Texas. Randall Mays taken off death row over intellectual disability

USA - Oklahoma. Bill Protecting Execution Drug Suppliers

SB 1702 passed Senate and House Judiciary Committee

USA - Louisiana. Senate Judiciary passes HB 6 adding nitrogen to execution methods

UNITED KINGDOM - Assange can’t be extradited until US rules out death penalty

INDIA: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF FORMER ODISHA BLOCK CHAIRMAN

In a landmark verdict, a court in Odisha’s Keonjhar district on March 3, 2024 sentenced five individuals to death for the murder of former Anandpur block chairman Ram Chandra Behera.

BANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2018 MURDER OF ELDERLY WOMAN IN CHATTOGRAM

A Chattogram court on March 9, 2024 sentenced two men to death for the murder of an elderly woman during a robbery in the city’s Sadarghat area.

USA - California. San Quentin’s death row empties

2/3 of death row inmates transferred to “normal” maximum security prisons

USA - Tennessee. Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Death Penalty for Child Rapists

SB 1834

GUYANA MAINTAINS STANCE ON DEATH PENALTY

In a recent address to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), Guyana reiterated its stance on the contentious issue of the death penalty, CNW reported on March 20, 2024.

IRAN - 2 men and 1 woman executed in Tabriz

Abbas Aghayi, Yasin Zolfaghari and his unidentified wife

USA - The National Registry of Exonerations published its 2023 report

153 exonerations last year, 4 from death row

INDIA: 8 DACOITS GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THREE

Ten years after three members of a Bareilly-based income tax inspector's family were murdered during a dacoity by a gang of eight, including two women, a city court has awarded capital punishment to all of them on March 8, 2024.

PAKISTAN: TWO WOMEN GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING THEIR MADRASSA TEACHER

Two Pakistani women have been sentenced to death for murdering their madrassa teacher who they accused of committing blasphemy, police said on March 20, 2024.

KENYA: JOSEPH 'JOWIE' IRUNGU SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MONICA KIMANI MURDER CASE

Joseph Irungu alias Jowie on March 13, 2024 was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of the 2018 murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani.

DRC LIFTS DEATH-PENALTY MORATORIUM TO EXECUTE THOSE WHO WORK WITH M23 - OR SHOW COWARDICE

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has resolved to lift a 21-year moratorium on death penalty executions as part of measures to stop its citizens, and serving military and police, from working with M23 rebels in the eastern part of the country.

RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR DRUG OFFENCES IN 2023

At least 467 people were executed for drug offences in 2023, a new record, according to Harm Reduction International (HRI), an NGO that has been tracking the use of the death penalty for drugs since 2007.

IRAN - “Black Tuesdays” Hunger Strikes Against the Death Penalty

Political prisoners from five prisons

MALAYSIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR 200KG OF DRUGS IN TAWAU

A mechanic was sentenced to death by the Tawau High Court on March 8, 2024 for trafficking nearly 200kg of syabu.

USA - Georgia. Willie Pye, 59, Black, was executed

3rd execution of 2024 in the US

INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING LANCE NAIK IN BAREILLY

A man, who shot dead a Lance Naik in 2018 was awarded capital punishment by a court in UP’s Bareilly on February 28, 2024.

BANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING CHILD IN N'GANJ

A court in Narayanganj on March 5, 2024 sentenced four people to death for killing a schoolboy at Rupganj in the district in 2018.

USA - Delaware. Judiciary Committee passed HB 70 to repeal death penalty

TAIWAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLINES DEATH ROW INMATES' APPEAL FOR REVIEW

Taiwan’s constitutional court on March 18, 2024 declined to review an additional appeal lodged by 37 death row inmates on the grounds that it was submitted too late.

MALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF CAMBODIAN MAN COMMUTED TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON FOR CAUSING DEATH

A Cambodian man, who was convicted of murdering two boys and two women, breathed a sigh of relief on March 12, 2024 after his death sentence was commuted to 60 years imprisonment by the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya.

IRAN - Scale of Iran rights abuses slammed at UN

At UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

USA - Alabama. Marco Perez officially sentenced to death