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2024
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2024, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2024
- FEBRUARY 12, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER HEAD OF CHINA MERCHANTS BANK GIVEN SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR ACCEPTING BRIBES
Tian Huiyu, a former president of China Merchants Bank, has been sentenced to death, suspended for two years, for accepting bribes, abusing power, trading on the basis of undisclosed information, insider trading and leaking inside information.
FEBRUARY 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani could be executed soon
FEBRUARY 12, 2024VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: PRESIDENT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR FIVE INMATES
The President of Vietnam Vo Van Thuong on February 6, 2024 signed a decision to commute the death penalty to life in prison for five convicts
FEBRUARY 12, 2024TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER
The High Court of Kigoma on February 2, 2024 sentenced Kigoma Ujiji municipal resident Peter Mwandelema to be hanged to death after being found guilty of intentionally killing seven people of the same family in 2022.
FEBRUARY 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Man Sentenced to Death Over of Killing Filmmaker Mehrjui
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FEBRUARY 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abuzar Taher Arab executed in Qom on February 12
- FEBRUARY 11, 2024FranceDEATH PENALTY
ROBERT BADINTER, WHO ABOLISHED DEATH PENALTY IN FRANCE, DIES AT 95
Former French justice minister Robert Badinter, who abolished capital punishment in France in 1981, has died at the age of 95, one of his aides told local media on February 9, 2024.
FEBRUARY 11, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: AT 561, NUMBER OF DEATH ROW PRISONERS AT A 19-YEAR HIGH
The number of prisoners on death row has risen to 561 in 2023, which is the highest in 19 years.
FEBRUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed "recently" in Tabriz
- FEBRUARY 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Khezrnejad sentenced to death
A Kurdish political prisoner
FEBRUARY 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahab Nadali, a political prisoner, sentenced to death
FEBRUARY 9, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Jose Larin-Garcia sentenced to death
FEBRUARY 9, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jury sentenced Marco Perez to death
- FEBRUARY 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Highest number of death sentences in 12 months
882 executions and 198 death sentences
FEBRUARY 8, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO STABBED COLLEAGUE TO DEATH WHILE DRUNK EXECUTED
Zhang Keping, who stabbed a colleague to death while drunk in 2022, was executed on February 4, 2024 after China's top court approved his death sentence.
FEBRUARY 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - European Parliament Condemns Escalating Executions in Iran
Calls for International Sanctions and IRGC Designation
FEBRUARY 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Man amputated of 4 fingers on July 17, 2023
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- FEBRUARY 7, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwean Cabinet on February 6, 2024 approved the abolition of the death penalty and, in its place, endorsed the imposition of lengthy to life jail sentences.
FEBRUARY 7, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE OVER HOMICIDE
Jiang Wenhua, a former researcher at Fudan University, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on February 1, 2024 for intentional homicide.
FEBRUARY 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Feizi and Rahmat Bigham executed in Zanjan on February 7
- FEBRUARY 6, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: FIVE VIGILANTE MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING TEENAGER
The Kano State High Court on January 25, 2024 sentenced five vigilante members to death by hanging for stabbing one Ahmed Musa,17, to death.
FEBRUARY 6, 2024YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: 13 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HOMOSEXUALITY
A Huthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, a judicial source said on February 2, 2024
FEBRUARY 6, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: 5 ON DEATH ROW IN SABAH SPARED THE GALLOWS
Five prisoners on death row in Sabah on February 5, 2024 saw their capital punishment substituted to imprisonment by the Federal Court.
FEBRUARY 6, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Marcelle Waldon, 39, Black, sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 5, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES 10, INCLUDING EX-AL LEADER RUHUL AMIN, TO DEATH IN NOAKHALI ELECTION DAY RAPE CASE
A court in Bangladesh on February 5, 2024 sentenced 10 people to death and another six to life sentences in prison for the gang rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Subarnachar on the day of the 11th national election.
FEBRUARY 5, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: AUSTRALIAN WRITER YANG HENGJUN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON SPY CHARGES
Australian writer Yang Hengjun, who was arrested in China on espionage charges in 2019, on February 5, 2024 was handed a suspended death sentence by a court in Beijing.
FEBRUARY 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hands off Cain: 80 executions in January 2024
FEBRUARY 5, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING WIFE 13YRS AGO IN NATORE
A Natore court on January 12, 2024 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in Singra Upazila of the district 13 years ago.
FEBRUARY 4, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 4 EXPATS EXECUTED FOR KILLING SUDANESE
Saudi Arabia on January 31, 2024 executed four Ethiopian expatriates on charges of murdering a Sudanese national.
FEBRUARY 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Mehraban executed in Qazvin on February 3