The Putrajaya Court of Appeal on August 26, 2024 commuted the death sentence to 40 years in prison for a man who murdered his mother and dumped her body in a septic tank six years ago.

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Newly appointed Justice Minister Hideki Makihara said on October 2, 2024 that abolishing the death penalty in Japan, where there have been no executions in over two years, would be "inappropriate" as the public largely considers it "unavoidable for heinous crimes."

The Multan Bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on September 12, 2024 upheld death sentence handed down to 14 members of the Chhotu Gang of the riverine area in a case of killing six policemen.

A Hanoi court sentenced the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology’s former chief accountant to death after Nguyen Hoang was convicted of embezzling more than 152 billion dong ($6.2 million), the Vietnam government’s website reported on September 24, 2024.

518 executions in Iran in 2024