Harm Reduction International (HRI) has monitored the use of the death penalty for drug offences worldwide since our first groundbreaking publication on this issue in 2007. This report, our 14th on the subject, continues our work of providing regular updates on legislative, policy and practical developments related to the use of capital punishment for drug offences, a practice which is a clear violation of international human rights and drug control standards. The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2024 presents an analysis of key developments, with a focus on analysing and disseminating available figures and trends on drug-related executions and death sentences. It consists of an overview of each category of countries including case studies where relevant, as well as supplementary analysis of international and national policy developments. A dedicated section summarises the findings of HRI’s report, Gaining Ground: How states abolish or restrict application of the death penalty for drug offences, which explores how 17 countries have either abolished or limited the use of the death penalty for drug offences. This section reviews reform processes, identifies key actors and factors – social, political, cultural and economic – that have catalysed change towards abolition, and provides recommendations which can be of use to advocates in a time of exceptional recourse to the death penalty as a tool of drug control. HRI opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception.