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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING EASY-BIKE DRIVER
A court in Bangladesh on August 30, 2023 sentenced three people to death for killing an easybike driver in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Birjand on Septembe 10
Mohsen and Saeed Sanjarani, and Abdolnaser Ghaljayi
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Military. Death penalty upheld for Nidal Hasan
Who killed 13 in base shooting
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: 9 PEOPLE PUBLICLY EXECUTED FOR RUNNING BEEF SMUGGLING RING
A crowd of 25,000 people were forced to gather at the airport in Hyesan, North Korea, and made to watch the shooting of nine people.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on September 9
Mohammad Narouyi (Narouei) + 2 Unk
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed … executed in Tabriz in the last days
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYTEHRAN AND KABUL TRADE ACCUSATIONS OF RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
The Taliban's foreign minister has criticised its leading economic ally and political supporter, Tehran, for the high number of executions in Iran, Farsi media reported.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CRITICIZING GOVERNMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on August 28, 2023.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden rejects some plea deal conditions for 9/11 suspects
They could still escape death penalty
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 3 HANGED FOR IS-CLAIMED BLAST THAT KILLED HUNDREDS
Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023OregonDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oregon. Jesse Johnson released from Jail
After 25 years
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Qom on September 5
18 women executed in 2023
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Abbas Najari executed in Shiraz on September 5
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, Mahboubeh Roshandel, executed in Mashhad on September 4
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houshang Moghtaderi executed in Ahvaz on September 3
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jury recommends death for Joshua McClellan
AUGUST 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Rouhi has died under suspicious circumstances
A protester sentenced to death
AUGUST 30, 2023VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: PRESIDENT REDUCES DEATH PENALTIES TO LIFE SENTENCES FOR 11 PRISONERS
President Vo Van Thuong on August 30, 2023 decided to reduce death penalties to life sentences for 11 prisoners.
AUGUST 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Sargazi and Esmaeil Hajizadeh executed in Hamedan on August 29
531 executions since the beginning of 2023
AUGUST 28, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Jarrell Neal’s death sentence overturned
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Wafa Kharamani executed in Saqqez on August 27
528 executions in Iran in 2023
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sobhan Eftekharedin executed in Aligudarz on August 27
AUGUST 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Yazdanpanah executed in Zarand on August 26
AUGUST 25, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. The state wants to be the first to execute prisoner by making them breathe pure nitrogen
AUGUST 24, 2023MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Howard M. Neal resentenced to life WITH parole
Former death row inmate
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qezel Hesar on August 23
Kiumars Rezaei, Rahman Ebrahimi and Behrouz Rahmani
- AUGUST 23, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Plea negotiations could mean 9/11 defendants will not face the death penalty
The Pentagon has advised families of some of the thousands killed
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentied man executed in Mahvelat on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Karami executed in Karaj on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COUPLE'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS JAIL FOR MURDERING DAUGHTER
A married couple escaped the gallows in Malaysia after the Court of Appeal on August 23, 2023 commuted their death sentence to a maximum jail sentence of 40 years for murdering their daughter.