Archive timeline
2024
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2024, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 1,199
- Countries where they were recorded
- 20
- News items in the archive
- 1,357
Latest news of 2024
JANUARY 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Heidari executed in Khorramabad on January 13
JANUARY 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 17 Groups Call for Action to Halt Execution of Four Kurdish Political Prisoners
Mohsen Mazloum, Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, and Hajir Faramarzi
JANUARY 12, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR MURDER
A Niger state High Court has convicted and sentenced to death by hanging a man, Tunde Tayo, for the murder of Abdullahi Janiya Yahaya in Maitumbi area of Minna, Niger state in 2019.
JANUARY 12, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith loses appeal to Alabama Supreme Court
scheduled for nitrogen execution
JANUARY 12, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. to Seek Death for Payton Gendron
Biden thus contradicts his electoral promises
JANUARY 12, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. LaJeromeny Brown formally sentenced to death
JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Falit Abed executed in Qazvin on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisam Habibi executed in Kermanshah on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2024ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 1997 POISONING
Two kung fu coaches were handed death sentences in China on January 8, 2024, following their arrest in 2023 for a 1997 poisoning that killed seven children, a court said.
JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nizam Dehmordeh executed in Yazd on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2024MassachusettsDEATH PENALTYUSA - Massachusetts. Supreme Court bans 'life without parole' for people under 21
1st in the nation
JANUARY 11, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: APEX COURT AFFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF EX-GUARD WHO MURDERED COLLEAGUES
The Putrajaya Federal Court on January 4, 2024 unanimously affirmed the death sentence imposed on a former security guard for murdering his two colleagues, seven years ago.
JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mohammad Ahmadi executed in Kermanshah on January 11
- JANUARY 10, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Federal judge rules Alabama’s nitrogen execution of Kenneth Smith can go forward
JANUARY 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Final balance of executions in 2023
JANUARY 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ali Mirzaei and Mahmoud Mirzaei executed in Karaj on January 10
JANUARY 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hossein Garavand and Kaiumars Gholami executed in Karaj on January 8
JANUARY 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Sobhani and Akbar Javadzadeh executed in Rasht on January 7
JANUARY 5, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. the Only G7 Country to Use Capital Punishment in 2023
United States and Japan are the only two retentionist countries among the Group of Seven leading industrialized democracies (G7). But Japan did not carry out any executions in 2023
JANUARY 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Saravani executed in Zahedan on December 16
JANUARY 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soheil Jalvaran and Hojat Kalkhoran executed in Ardabil on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Sabzevar on January 4
Hashem Zorabadi, Amir Ahmadzadeh, Mehdi Kivanlu
- JANUARY 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soheil Jeloran and Hojjat Kalkhoran executed in Ardabil on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Moradian executed in Hamadan on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Barzegar executed in Yazd on January 4
- JANUARY 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Ardabil on January 3
Naser Peydayi, Mohammad Nadiri, and Farzad Mohammadi
JANUARY 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Rasaei could be executed soon
Kurdish political prisoner arrested during Women-Life-Freedom
JANUARY 3, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - UN experts alarmed for execution by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama
Execution of K.E. Smith set for January 25
JANUARY 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Roya Heshmati, a Kurdish female activist, lashed 74 times
But still refused to wear the hijab
JANUARY 2, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: AT LEAST 172 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN 2023
Saudi Arabia carried out at least 172 executions in 2023, despite renewed promises from the Kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to limit the scope of capital punishment.