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- DECEMBER 31, 2018SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALI TROOPS EXECUTE SIX MILITANTS IN GEDO REGION
Six members of the Al-Shabaab militia group were executed on 31 December 2018.
- DECEMBER 31, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Adel Abdel Nour El Sayed Soliman executed for murder
Egypt: Adel Abdel Nour El Sayed Soliman executed for murder
- DECEMBER 31, 2018DEATH PENALTY
USA - California. New trial for Freddie Lee Taylor
USA - California. New trial for Freddie Lee Taylor
DECEMBER 31, 2018JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: COURT OF CASSATION REDUCES DEATH SENTENCE TO 20 YEARS IN ‘HONOR KILLING’ CASE
The Court of Cassation upheld a March Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a 27-year-old man to 20 years in prison after convicting him of murdering his younger sister for reasons related to family honour in Mafraq in July of 2016.
DECEMBER 31, 2018South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING A KENYAN PRIEST
Two men were on 18 December 2018 sentenced to death for killing a Kenyan priest in Cueibet, South Sudan on November 15, at around 2 am.
DECEMBER 31, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BOMBAY HC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF WOMAN TECHIE KILLER
The Bombay High Court on 20 December 2018 upheld a trial court verdict awarding the death penalty to a man convicted of raping and killing a 23-year-old woman techie from Andhra Pradesh in 2014, describing him as a "menace to the society".
DECEMBER 31, 2018Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: 1, 299 ON DEATH-ROW IN PRISONS
A total of 1, 299 death row inmates, including inmates who had appealed against their sentence, have been detained in Sri Lankan prisons as of 31 December 2018, the Ministry of Justice and Prisons Reforms said on 9 January 2019.
DECEMBER 31, 2018BahrainDEATH PENALTYBAHRAIN: 9 NEW DEATH PENALTIES, 5 ON DEATH ROW AND 147 LIFE SENTENCES IN 2018
In 2018, nine new death sentences were handed down to political prisoners.
DECEMBER 31, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: IN 2018 COURTS HANDED OUT MOST DEATH PENALTIES SINCE 2000
A legislative intervention to extend capital punishment to non-homicide crimes may be the reason for a higher number of death penalties handed out in 2018.
DECEMBER 31, 2018BahrainDEATH PENALTYBAHRAIN: 9 NEW DEATH PENALTIES, 5 ON DEATH ROW AND 147 LIFE SENTENCES IN 2018
In 2018 nine new death sentences were handed down to political prisoners, secondo il Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)
- DECEMBER 30, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Egyptian citizen beheaded in Khamis Mushait Governatorate
30 December 2018: Yusuf Mohammed Yousuf Asma'i executed for murdering a co-national
DECEMBER 29, 2018SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES AL-SHABAAB ASSASSIN IN BAIDOA FOR THE MURDER OF A PROMINENT CLERIC
Somali military court on 29 December 2018 executed Al-Shabaab member who assassinated a famous cleric in Baidoa last year.