Executions in December 2024

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
Afghanistan
America (USA)	3
Bangladesh
Belarus
Botswana
Chad
China	1
Egypt	1
India
Iran	136
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Myanmar
Nigeria
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia	48
Singapore
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Taiwan
UAE
Vietnam
Yemen	7

187 men and 9 women were executed in December, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
01/12	Saudi Arabia	Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Awad	Beheading (p)	Murder
01/12	Iran	Moussi Ahmadian and 2 unnamed men	Hanging	Drugs
01/12	Iran	Farkhunda Allah Moradi, (f) Ismail Barakzai and Khodanur Gergij	Hanging	Murder
02/12	Yemen	Abdul Karim Qasim Ahmed Mohsen	Shooting	Murder
02/12	Saudi Arabia	Wadiha bint Abdullah bin Thunayan Al Shamri (f)	Beheading (p)	Murder
02/12	Saudi Arabia	Salem bin Salman bin Eid al-Attawi	Beheading (p)	Drugs
02/12	Iran	Logman Shenge, Siavash Yari and Mohammad Ali Darkeh	Hanging	Drugs
03/12	Iran	Ismail Barakzai, Jamshid Taherkhani and Peyman Zarei	Hanging	Murder
03/12	Iran	Sadegh Asadi, Hasan Hasanbeigi, Abdul Wahab Babakhanian, Alia Kavarizadeh (f) and Faridha Jafarzadeh (f)	Hanging	Murder
03/12	Saudi Arabia	Tamer Faraj Sanusi Massbah, Ahmed Ali Yunes Qayed and Islam Mohammed Ahmed al-Said	Beheading (p)	Drugs
03/11	America – Missouri	Christopher Collings	Injection	Rape/murder
03/12	Saudi Arabia	Kamal bin Kamel bin Mohammed Maoudh	Beheading (p)	Murder
03/12	Yemen	Abdullah Salem Abdullah Al-Hajri and Abdullah Saleh Ali Hussein Al-Sahhaqi	Shooting	Murder
04/12	Iran	Mehdi Hossein Zahi	Hanging	Murder
04/12	Iran	Rasool Ebrahimi and Abdullah Panahi	Hanging	Drugs
05/12	Iran	Sina Shamsolahi	Hanging	Murder
05/12	Saudi Arabia	Ahmed Attiyah Mesaad Faraj	Beheading (p)	Murder
05/12	Saudi Arabia	Akhtar Munir Zaher	Beheading (p)	Drugs
06/12	Iran	Farhad Atashzadeh	Hanging	Drugs
07/12	Iran	Ameneh Alipour (f)	Hanging	Murder
07/12	Iran	Ashkan Fathi and Jaber Ansari	Hanging	Murder
07/12	Saudi Arabia	Dakhil bin Fahid bin Salem Al-Hasnaa Al-Marri	Beheading (p)	Murder
08/12	Iran	Amin Maleki, Mehdi Shirvani and Fardin Abdollahi	Hanging	Murder
08/12	Iran	Abdul Ghafour Razm Dideh Rigi	Hanging	Drugs
08/12	Saudi Arabia	Faissal bin Musfer bin Ghanem al-Safiyani	Beheading (p)	Murder
08/12	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed Eid Mahmud al-Azazmah	Beheading (p)	Drugs
09/12	Iran	Ali Khaleqi Farghani	Hanging	Murder
09/12	Iran	Khodabakhsh Qanbarzahi, Omid Hosseinzai and Rakhshani	Hanging	Drugs
09/12	Iran	Morteza Ghasemi	Hanging	Drugs
09/12	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah bin Ali bin Jarwan al-Qahtani	Beheading (p)	Murder
10/12	Iran	Abdul Mahdi Rashed Miri, Reza Bahramifard, Asghar Ramezani, Morteza Ghasemi and Jabar Saeed Moti	Hanging	Murder
10/12	Saudi Arabia	Funmilayo Omonemi Bishi (f)	Beheading (p)	Drugs
11/12	Iran	Ahmad Jahankhani and 4 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder
11/12	Iran	Naser Takhchi, Iman Moghadam, Rahman Sarlak, and Abdullah Tajik	Hanging	Drugs
12/12	Iran	Majid Esmaeili, Gholam Rusta, Sajjad Azizi and Ebrahim Valizadeh	Hanging	Murder
12/12	Iran	Shahrokh Fahimi, Mohsen Barzegar, Mohammad Shah Achakzai and Rahim Achakzai	Hanging	Drugs
13/12	Saudi Arabia	Hani Rateb Hamed Rateb	Beheading (p)	Drugs
13/12	Saudi Arabia	Mahnad bin Zahid bin Ali al-Mala	Beheading (p)	Murder
13/12	Saudi Arabia	Saleh bin Abdulhadi bin Mohammed al-Beraz al-Dosar & Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Hamad al Hamad	Beheading (p)	Murder
14/12	Iran	Ali Akbar Gharib Sardavi	Hanging	Murder
14/12	Iran	Mojtaba Jamshidian, Sheikh Hassan Ebrahimi and Hossein Kolivand	Hanging	Drugs
14/12	Saudi Arabia	Bassam Abdulrahman Ali Al-Faqih	Beheading (p)	Murder
14/12	Saudi Arabia	Sultan bin Salem bin Ayed al-Ruwaili	Beheading (p)	Drugs
15/12	Iran	Ghorban Razi, Mohammad Ali Kharkouhi, Reza Kharkouhi, Salah (surname unknown), Abdulnaser Totazhi, Abdul Baset Totazhi, Nematollah Totazhi and 1 unnamed woman (f)	Hanging	Murder
15/12	Iran	Hadi Molla Kazemi, Mohammad Kasrani, Hamzeh Mirzapour, Shahrokh Fahimi, Mohsen Barzegar, Mohammad Vazir Rudini, Alireza Golebache,  Elias Tardest and Yaqoob Brahui-Moghaddam	Hanging	Drugs
15/12	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah bin Dhafer bin Abdullah al-Qarbi al-Shahrani	Beheading (p)	Murder
15/12	Yemen	Muhammad Shukri Ali Ahmed and Ali Shukri Ali Ahmed	Shooting	Murder
16/12	Iran	Ali Morad Dehghani and Hamed Basirat	Hanging	Murder
16/12	Iran	Seyyed Behzad Seyyidi Bokani	Hanging	Drugs
16/12	Saudi Arabia	Ibrahim bin Musa bin Ahmed Najaei	Beheading (p)	Murder
16/12	Saudi Arabia	Jawal Sulaiman Mattar al-Sharafat	Beheading (p)	Drugs
17/12	Iran	Jamal Asgarabadi and Manouchehr Hedayati	Hanging	Drugs
17/12	Iran	Effat Hamedi (f) and Yousef Sattari	Hanging	Murder
17/12	China	Li Jianping	Injection	Corruption
17/12	Yemen	Saleh Omar Ahmed Al-Askari and Ali Mahdi Othman Abu Shanin	Shooting	Murder
18/12	Iran	Jabraeel Naseri, Sohrab Ahmadipour, Hassan Ali Yousefi, Majid Jamshidi and Abdul Bari Pakuhi	Hanging	Drugs
18/12	Iran	Farzad Norouzi, Rahim Berin and Jamal Naboureh	Hanging	Murder
18/12	Iran	Rastgoui Kandalj	Hanging	Sexual assaults
18/12	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed bin Saud bin Omar al-Zahiyani al-Shahrani	Beheading (p)	Murder
18/12	America - Indiana	Joseph Corcoran	Injection	Murder
19/12	Iran	Ramin Kabiri	Hanging	Murder
19/12	Saudi Arabia	Safat Lawla Anur Shah	Beheading (p)	Murder
19/12	Saudi Arabia	Misri Khan Khan Nawab, Mahmoud Abdullah Hajij, Najih Mashhan Bakhit, Suleiman Eid Suleiman, and Atallah Ali Daghman Salem	Beheading (p)	Drugs
19/12	America - Oklahoma	Kevin Ray Underwood	Injection	Murder
21/12	Iran	Esmaeil Mirzaei, Fattah Mahmoudi, Ashkan Parseh, Mojtaba Jamshidian and Arman Samadi	Hanging	Drugs
21/12	Iran	Sultan Jahantigh	Hanging	Murder
22/12	Saudi Arabia	Ahmed bin Saleh bin Abdullah Al Kaabi and Ayed bin Hail bin Hindi Al Anzi	Beheading (p)	Terrorism
22/12	Iran	Hossein Arjomand	Hanging	Murder
22/12	Yemen	Afif Salem Mohammed Al-Hajj	Shooting	Murder
23/12	Iran	Luqman Ahmadi Aghdam	Hanging	Drugs
23/12	Saudi Arabia	Salman bin Sultan bin Awda al-Bahairan	Beheading (p)	Drugs
24/12	Iran	Yar Hossein Shokri, Ali Manian, Jassim Manian and 1 unnamed man	Hanging	Murder
24/12	Iran	Abdul Rahman Ishaqzai, Ali Rahm Khani, Davood Qoljaei and Asghar Ghaffari	Hanging	Drugs
24/12	Saudi Arabia	Omar Hithem Mandu	Beheading (p)	Drugs
24/12	Saudi Arabia	Yusef Ali Ahmed Alwani and Sulaiman Ali Mohammed Abdullah	Beheading (p)	Kidnapping and robbery
25/12	Iran	Mahmoud Keshavarzi, Hamed Pakdaman, Masoud Jalilian and Hossein Mansouri Nesab	Hanging	Drugs
25/12	Iran	Habib Pournaghi and Mohammad Javad Goodarzi	Hanging	Murder
25/12	Saudi Arabia	Jani Ayemba Awkuwamba (f)	Beheading (p)	Murder
25/12	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed bin Shaman bin Darbi al-Anzi	Beheading (p)	Drugs
26/12	Iran	Jasim Jahan Tigh, Saman Fakhri, Asad Amini, Abdullah Naroei, Ahmad Ghufran, Javad Ghafari, Hamed Ranjbar and Hossein Salarzehi  (8 men)	Hanging	Drugs
26/12	Iran	Kateb Seyednian	Hanging	Murder
26/12	Saudi Arabia	Abdulrahman bin Shabab bin Ali Al-Otaibi and Majed bin Abdulhamid bin Abdulkarim Al-Daihan	Beheading (p)	Terrorism
26/12	Egypt	Sayed Adel	Hanging	Murder
27/12	Iran	Abdul Rahman Ishaqzai, Sadegh Johari and Karim Oladi	Hanging	Drugs
28/12	Saudi Arabia	Badr bin Mahae bin Mohammed Maqdhabi Majrashi	Beheading (p)	Rape
29/12	Iran	Jalal Stanikzai	Hanging	Murder
29/12	Iran	Mohammad Ali Soleimankhani, Davud Barati and Iman Yazdani,	Hanging	Drugs
29/12	Saudi Arabia	Ali bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Qahtani	Beheading (p)	Drugs
29/12	Saudi Arabia	Ali bin Issa bin Ali Asiri	Beheading (p)	Murder
30/12	Iran	Ayet Pourmansouri, Babak Shoghi, Koros (Kurosh) Naroui and Ahmad Brahui Chenal	Hanging	Drugs
30/12	Saudi Arabia	Khaled Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Najjar	Beheading (p)	Drugs
31/12	Iran	Ali Safai Zaideh Sarai	Hanging	Murder
31/12	Saudi Arabia	Ahmed Fawad al-Said al-Lawizi	Beheading (p)	Murder
31/12	Saudi Arabia	Nasser bin Sawi bin Ghafel al-Ruwaili	Beheading (p)	Drugs

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

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