President Joe Biden announced on December 23 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.

A man in Changde, Hunan province, was sentenced to death with two years' reprieve on December 23, 2024 for committing the crime of using dangerous means to harm public security, according to Xinhua News Agency.

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A member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club on December 20, 2024 was sentenced to death and two others given life imprisonment in Thailand for the murder of a German property broker whose dismembered body was found in a freezer in Pattaya last year.

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