Executions in April 2009.

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
Afghanistan
America (USA)	4
Bangladesh
Botswana
China	4
Iran	8
Indonesia
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Libya
Malaysia
North Korea
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia	8
Singapore
Sudan	9
UAE
Yemen	1
Total	34

32 men and 2 women were executed in April 2009, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
03/04	Saudi Arabia	Salehm Dhibani	Beheading (p)	Murder
07/04	Saudi Arabia	Muhammad Akram Shafi, Muhammad Kamran Qassem and Asghar Ali Abdulaziz	Beheading (p)	Murder
08/04	China	Abdurahman Azat and Kurbanjan Hemit	Injection?	Terrorist murders
09/04	Saudi Arabia	Majed Bin Abdallah Hazzazi	Beheading (p)	Rape
10/04	Iran	Mohsen Eslamian, Ali Asghar Pashtar and Rouzbeh Yahyazadeh	Hanging	Terrorist murders
13/04	Sudan	9 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder
14/04	Saudi Arabia	Fikry Saleh	Beheading (p)	Murder
15/04	America - Texas	Michael Rosales	Injection	Murder
16/04	America - Alabama	Jimmy Lee Dill	Injection	Murder
16/04	China	Xiong Zhenlin	Injection?	Murder
17/04	Iran	Amir Kh.	Hanging	Murder
19/04	Yemen	A'isha Al-Hamzi (f)	Shooting	Murder
20/04	Saudi Arabia	Laila al-Shemmari (f)	Shooting	Murder
c20/04	Iran	Ala H. and Mostafa Kh. Seyed Massoud M.	Hanging	Murder Rape
21/04	Saudi Arabia	Abbas al-Sudi	Beheading (p)	Rape/murder
29/04	China	Zhang Xinlei	Shooting	Murder
30/04	America - Georgia	William Mark Mize	Injection	Murder
30/04	Iran	Bijan	Hanging	Rape
30/04	America - Texas	Derrick Lamone Johnson	Injection	Murder

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

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