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- FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Salehbeig received 74 lashes prior to being executed in Zanjan on February 28
(also Salehbeyg, Saleh-Beyg)
FEBRUARY 28, 2022RussiaDEATH PENALTYRUSSIA: DMITRY MEDVEDEV CALLS ON RUSSIA TO REINTRODUCE DEATH PENALTY
After the Council of Europe on 25 February 2022 suspended Russia’s rights of representation, the country’s deputy chairman of the Security Council says this is a good opportunity to restore the death penalty for the most severe crimes.
FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile offender Mohammadreza Hadadi released
(Also Mohammad-Reza Haddadi)
FEBRUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PAKISTANI-AMERICAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BEHEADING GIRLFRIEND
A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on 24 February 2022, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.
FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Heydar Ghorbani executed in Khorramabad on February 27
FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jasem Ghanbari executed in Jiroft on February 27
FEBRUARY 27, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BOMBAY HIGH COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH PENALTY IN RAPE AND MURDER CASE; ACQUITS ACCUSED OF MURDER, UPHOLDS RAPE CHARGE
The Bombay High Court on 23 February 2022 quashed the death sentence of a man convicted of killing and raping a girl on the ground that the accusation of murder could not be proven.
FEBRUARY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution Postponed After Heart Attack
Hojat Ostad-Asyabi suffered a heart attack at the gallows in Ardabil Prison on February 26
FEBRUARY 25, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court
- FEBRUARY 24, 2022IdahoDEATH PENALTY
USA - Idaho. House passes HB 658 granting confidentiality in executions
FEBRUARY 24, 2022TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: HUASHAN MURDERER ESCAPES DEATH PENALTY AFTER SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LIFE SENTENCE
The legal drama of a man found guilty of raping, killing, and dismembering a woman on the lawn behind Taipei's Huashan 1914 Creative Park in 2018 has finally come to an end, following the Taiwan Supreme Court's decision to uphold a lower court’s life sent
FEBRUARY 24, 2022YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HOUTHI TRIBUNAL
The Specialized Criminal Court in Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis, on 22 February 2022 sentenced to death three people, including a school principal, on charges of colluding with the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen and the Yemeni govern