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- AUGUST 5, 2019DEATH PENALTY
OREGON (USA): GOVERNOR KATE BROWN SIGNS SB 1013 NARROWING USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY
Calling the state’s death penalty “dysfunctional,” “costly,” and “immoral,” Oregon Governor Kate Brown on August 1, 2019 signed a bill significantly limiting the crimes for which capital punishment can be imposed in the state.
- AUGUST 5, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRANIAN PRISONER SERVING LIFE SENTENCE ESCAPES TO CANADA
An Iranian-born Canadian resident has escaped from Iran after being imprisoned there for 11 years and returned to Canada.
AUGUST 5, 2019DEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED FOR MURDER COMMITTED WHEN HE WAS UNDER THE AGE OF 18
Hamid Avesti was executed in the central prison of Kermanshah on 4 August 2019.
AUGUST 5, 2019SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: DAESH TERRORIST SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Somali military tribunal on 1 August 2019 sentenced a Daesh terrorist to death for his role in the killing of five people, including civilians and a security official, in separate shooting incidents in 2018-19.
- AUGUST 5, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Ghadermolla was hanged at Qom Prison on August 5.
IRAN - Rasoul Ghadermolla was hanged at Qom Prison on August 5.
- AUGUST 4, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdullah Karmollah Chab and Ghassem Beit-Abdullah were hanged at Dezful Prison on August 4.
IRAN - Abdullah Karmollah Chab and Ghassem Beit-Abdullah were hanged at Dezful Prison on August 4.
- AUGUST 4, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Avesti was executed in the prison of Kermanshah on Aug. 4. He was a minor.
IRAN - Hamid Avesti was executed in the prison of Kermanshah on Aug. 4. He was a minor.
- AUGUST 4, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar (Kazem) Seyedhosseini was executed on August 4 in Maragheh prison.
IRAN - Jafar (Kazem) Seyedhosseini was executed on August 4 in Maragheh prison.
- AUGUST 3, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Updates on the Djalali case.
IRAN - Updates on the Djalali case.
- AUGUST 2, 2019JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN: 2 DEATH-ROW INMATES HANGED, 1ST EXECUTIONS THIS YEAR
Japan hanged two death-row inmates on 2 August 2019 morning, the Justice Ministry said, in the country's first executions this year.
AUGUST 2, 2019BarbadosDEATH PENALTYBARBADOS: DEATH ROW INMATE FREED
The Court of Appeal on 2 August 2019 released former condemned murderer Omar DaCosta Holder from prison saying his case should not have gone to the jury in light of his unsigned written statement taken while he was in police custody.
AUGUST 2, 2019IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: FRENCH DRUG SMUGGLER'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
A French drug smuggler's death sentence was commuted on 2 August 2019 by an Indonesian court to 19 years in prison, less than three months after the surprise ruling put in him line for execution by firing squad.