Pope Francis called for debt relief for the poor countries of the South of the globe and the universal abolition of the death penalty in his message for World Peace Day 2025, which takes place on January 1.

Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi on December 9, 2024 said Morocco will vote in favor of the tenth United Nations resolution on a moratorium on the application of the death penalty.

To mark World Human Rights Day (10 December)

The Taliban Supreme Court announced on December 10, 2024 that a man and a woman have been publicly flogged in Ghazni province, southeastern Afghanistan, on charges of “adultery.”

The Bombay High Court on December 9, 2024 set aside the death penalty granted to the key accused by a lower court for the murder of four members of a family, including two children, 27 years ago in Pune.

Abdulmahdi Rashadmiri, Saeed Motiei (Moti) and Asghar Ramazani

A POCSO court in Baruipur of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas on December 5, 2024 awarded death sentence to Mustaqin, convicted of rape and murder of a minor girl from Jaynagar.

The Sessions Court in Jhelum, Pakistan, on December 7, 2024 handed down a death sentence to a British national for the murder of his British-Pakistani uncle.