Executions in December 2008.

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country

No of executions

Afghanistan

 

America

1

Bangladesh

2

Botswana

 

China

 

Iran

31

Indonesia

 

Japan

 

Jordan

 

Kuwait

 

Libya

 

Malaysia

 

North Korea

 

Pakistan

 

Saudi Arabia

8

St. Kitts & Nevis

1

Singapore

1

UAE

 

Yemen

 

Total

44

43 men and  1 woman were executed in December 2008, their details are as under. 

Date

Country

Name

Method

Crime

03/12

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

05/12

America – S Carolina

Joseph Gardner

Injection

Murder

06/12

Iran

P.D., M.M. and V.A.R

Hanging

Drugs

07/12

Iran

Abbas

Hanging

Murder

07/12

Iran

Baba-Ahmadi, Shahab Shahabi & A.D.

Hanging

Drug and other crimes

13/12

Iran

Zahed Saleh-Abadi & Mohammad Amin Barahouni
+ M.S.H.

Hanging

Murder

13/12

Saudi Arabia

Zamim bin Sarawi al-Asiri

Beheading (p)

Murder

17/12

Saudi Arabia

Mohammed al-Saadi
Abdullah Ruil

Beheading (p)

Murder

19/12

Singapore

Mohammed Ali Johari

Hanging

Murder

19/12

St Kitts

Charles Elroy Laplace

Hanging

Murder

20/12

Iran

Mohammad Reza & Hamid, Alireza
Hossein and Esmail

Hanging

Rape
”Corrupt on earth”
Drugs

20/12

Saudi Arabia

Obeid Bin Saeed Al Qahtani

Beheading (p)

Murder

21/12

Saudi Arabia

Jassim al-Bahrani

Beheading (p)

Murder

21/12

Bangladesh

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

23/12

Iran

8 unnamed men
Tayyabeh (f)

Hanging

Murder

25/12

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

26/12

Saudi Arabia

Nasser al-Harby &
Majid al-Sibeiy

Beheading (p)

Rape

27/12

Iran

Alireza

Hanging

Murder

27/12

Saudi Arabia

Abdullah bin Hamed bin Umran al-Anzi

Beheading (p)

Murder

28/12

Iran

Abdolrahman Baluch Zehi

Hanging (p)

Murder

29/12

Saudi Arabia

Mohammed al-Sehimi

Beheading (p)

Murder

30/12

Iran

Hoshang Kh.,
Ahmad Zare'e (j)

Hanging

Murder

In addition two men were stoned to death for adultery in Iran in mid December.

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

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