Executions in January 2009.

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country

No of executions

Afghanistan

 

America

7

Bangladesh

 

Botswana

 

China

4

Iran

37

Indonesia

 

Japan

4

Jordan

 

Kuwait

 

Libya

 

Malaysia

 

North Korea

 

Pakistan

 

Saudi Arabia

8

Singapore

1

UAE

 

Yemen

 

Total

61

60 men and 1 woman were executed in January 2009, their details are as under. 

Date

Country

Name

Method

Crime

02/01

Saudi Arabia

Sod Karn Tabi & Miqra Safira

Beheading (p)

Murder

02/01

Iran

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

03/01

Iran

Houshang Khodadad

Hanging

Rape

09/01

Singapore

Tan Chor Jin

Hanging

Murder

09/01

Saudi Arabia

Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Al-Oqail

Beheading (p)

Rape

11/01

Saudi Arabia

Khaled Ahmad

Beheading (p)

Murder

12/01

Iran

Mojtaba R & MHA

Hanging (p)

Murder

14/01

America - Texas

Curtis Moore

Injection

Murder

14/01

Saudi Arabia

Abdullah bin Khidhr bin Abdullah al-Ghamdi

Probably shot

Murder

15/01

China

Bo Lijun
Liu Junjie & Wang Bing

Injection?

Murder & rape
Armed robbery

15/01

America - Alabama

James Harvey Callahan

Injection

Murder & rape

15/01

Saudi Arabia

Mushabeb Al-Ahmari

Beheading (p)

Murder

15/01

China

Huang Yihua

Injection?

Drugs

16/01

Saudi Arabia

Mohammed bin Mikhlif al-Ruwaily

Beheading (p)

Murder

20/01

Iran

Alireza, Hassan, Mohammad Hassan, Jan Mohammad M., Reza M. and Gholam

Hanging

Drugs

20/01

Iran

6 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder and drugs

21/01

America - Texas

Frank Moore

Injection

Murder

21/01

Iran

10 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

22/01

America - Texas

Reginald Perkins

Injection

Murder

22/01

America - Oklahoma

Darwin Demond Brown

Injection

Murder

25/01

Iran

Ahmad A., Reza A. and
4 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs and rape

26/01

Iran

Heshmat

Hanging

Murder

28/01

America - Texas

Virgil Martinez

Injection

Murder

28/01

Iran

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

29/01

Japan

Tadashi Makino, Yukinari Kawamura, Tetsuya Sato & Shojiro Nishimoto

Hanging

Murder

29/01

Iran

asoumeh Ghale Jahi (f)

Hanging

Murder

29/01

America - Texas

Ricardo Ortiz

Injection

Murder

30/01

Saudi Arabia

Omar Dussari

Beheading (p)

Murder

(f) = female, (j) = juvenile, (p) = public

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