2024

USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith’s execution by nitrogen hypoxia is ‘historic’ achievement

Said Steve Marshall, Attorney General

IRAN - 3 Kurdish prisoners of conscience at imminent risk of execution

Anvar Khezri, Kamran Sheikheh and Khosrow Besharat

JAPAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 36 IN ANIME STUDIO ARSON 

A Japanese man was convicted and sentenced to death on January 25, 2024 for the arson and killing of 36 people at famed anime studio Kyoto Animation in 2019, public broadcaster NHK said.

GHANA: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2021 COUP PLOT

A Ghana court on January 24, 2024 sentenced six people to death by hanging, including three soldiers, for their involvement in an alleged plot three years ago to overthrow the country's government.

USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith's execution is imminent

The federal appeals court also rejected his appeal

USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith executed on January 25

Using untested method of nitrogen gas

IRAN - Death sentence confirmed for Kurdish political prisoner Yousef Ahmadi

IRAQ: THIRTEEN MEN EXECUTED IN NASIRIYAH PRISON

Thirteen men were executed in Nasiriyah prison on December 25, 2023, the first mass execution since 21 men were executed on November 16, 2020.

MYANMAR: DEFEATED JUNTA GENERALS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCES

Myanmar’s regime on January 20, 2024 handed death sentences to three brigadier generals who surrendered to the Brotherhood Alliance at Laukkai in northern Shan State.

USA - US Supreme Court declines to halt execution of Kenneth Smith

IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on January 24

Fazel Shafiei, Morteza Nadimi + Unk. 63 executions in January

IRAN - Ali Obidavi sentenced to death

A political prisoner

USA - Canada. Canadian firm under fire for supplying equipment for Smith's execution

IRAN - Judge Salavati: The Ruthless Enforcer of Iran’s Medieval Legal Decrees

USA - Alabama. Dissent rises against looming ‘experimental’ execution of Kenneth Smith

PAKISTAN: DRUG DEALER GETS DEATH PENALTY

Additional District and Sessions Judge (ASJ) Muhammad Tahir Aslam awarded death penalty and imposed Rs100,000 on a drug dealer in Muzaffargarh on January 15, 2024.

VIETNAM: COURT SENTENCES 9 PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

A court in Vietnam on January 22, 2024 sentenced nine people to death after being convicted of involvement in one of the country's largest drug trafficking cases in months, state media reported.

USA - The Slow Undoing of America's Death Penalty

IRAN - Political prisoner Farhad Salimi executyed in Karaj on January 23

IRAN - Ahmad Asgarat executed in Karaj on January 23

USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith’s lawyers ask U.S. Supreme Court whether state can try twice to execute him

USA - Tennessee. Death Penalty Sentences For Child Rape Passes House Subcommittee

HB1663

NIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING CHIEF OGBOBULA IN RIVERS

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on January 18, 2024 sentenced to death three men on charges of kidnapping and murder.

IRAN - Protester Mohammad Ghobadloo executed in Karaj on January 22

BANGLADESH: 5 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE IN SHARIATPUR

A court sentenced five persons to death in Bangladesh for killing a woman after gang-raping her in Damudya upazila of Shariatpur in 2019.

IRAN - Massoud Rigi executed in Zahedan on January 22

IRAN - Hossein Ali Shakurian and Naser Mavedat executed in Sabzevar on January 22

USA - Oklahoma. U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Richard Glossip’s Appeal

IRAN - Another young woman killed by the police

Anahita Amirpour, 20 years old

IRAN - Abdulreza Qalavand severely beaten prior to his execution

Was executed on August 21, 2123