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- FEBRUARY 7, 2020DEATH PENALTY
TEXAS (USA): ABEL REVILL OCHOA EXECUTED
Abel Revill Ochoa, 47, Hispanic, was executed in Texas on 6 February 2020.
FEBRUARY 7, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KILLING OF AL LEADER IN LAKSHMIPUR
A Lakshmipur court has sentenced three people to death over the killing of Awami League leader Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan in Lakshmipur six years ago.
FEBRUARY 7, 2020NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING UBER DRIVER IN ABUJA
The High Court in Nyanya, Abuja, on 6 February 2020 sentenced to death one Obinna Echanu, 42, for killing an Uber driver identified as Edwin Ali.
- FEBRUARY 6, 2020TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Abel Revill Ochoa, 47, Hispanic, was executed.
USA - Texas. Abel Revill Ochoa, 47, Hispanic, was executed.
FEBRUARY 6, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING CHILD IN DINAJPUR
A Dinajpur court on 5 February 2020 sentenced five people to death for killing a child after abduction in Ghoraghat upazila in 2015.
- FEBRUARY 6, 2020FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Death sentence reinstated for man Thomas Ford McCoy
USA - Florida. Death sentence reinstated for man Thomas Ford McCoy
FEBRUARY 6, 2020IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sentences confirmed for three women's rights activists: Yasaman Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi and Mojan Keshavarz
IRAN - Sentences confirmed for three women's rights activists: Yasaman Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi and Mojan Keshavarz
FEBRUARY 6, 2020DEATH PENALTYVIRGINIA (USA): TWENTY-ONE PROSECUTORS SIGN LETTER URGING REPEAL OF DEATH PENALTY
Calling the death penalty “a failed government program,” 21 current and former Virginia prosecutors have signed on to a letter to the commonwealth’s General Assembly urging the legislature to abolish capital punishment.
FEBRUARY 6, 2020NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING WIFE
An FCT High Court in Abuja, on 5 February 2020 sentenced a 38-year-old man, Eric Chigbor, to death by hanging for killing his wife.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2020IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At least 52 Kurdish citizens have been executed in 2019
IRAN - At least 52 Kurdish citizens have been executed in 2019
FEBRUARY 5, 2020IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 33 CHILDREN CONVICTED OF ISIS-RELATED TERRORISM IN 18 MONTH PERIOD
Nearly 400 individuals were tried in Iraqi courts between mid-2018 and late 2019 on terrorism charges for alleged affiliation to the Islamic State -including 33 minors who were found guilty, the United Nations said on 28 January 2020.
FEBRUARY 5, 2020IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TELANGANA COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR THREE IN SAMATHA CASE
The special fast track court in Adilabad convicted the three accused in connection with the sensational Samatha gangrape and murder case and sentenced them to death by hanging on 30 January 2020.