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AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Prisoner swap with USA
Siamak Namazi, Morad Tahbaz, Emad Sharqi + 2 Unk.
AUGUST 9, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR IN KWARA
Justice S. M. Akanbi of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on July 31, 2023 sentenced one Mohammed Kazeem Beiwa to death for the murder of his neighbour identified as Olokose Ojo Olushola in Ilorin a few days before his wedding in 2021.
AUGUST 9, 2023IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: TOP COP'S DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER COMMUTED TO LIFE IN PRISON
A senior police official sentenced to death for murdering his bodyguard has had his punishment commuted to life in prison by Indonesia's Supreme Court, an official said August 8, 2023.
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Khazaei and Ahad Hashemi executed in Hamedan on August 9
AUGUST 9, 2023OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Caron Montgomery taken off death row
AUGUST 9, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Facundo Chavez, 32, Hispanic, sentenced to death
AUGUST 9, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana - Governor Edwards Directs Board to Consider Death Row Clemency Petitions
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asadollah Arjomand (Arjmand) executed in Yasuj on August 9
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Marand on August 9
Identities not disclosed
AUGUST 8, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER ACCUSED AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
Additional Session Judge Rehmat Ali awarded the death penalty to an accused of murder case in Multan on July 21, 2023.
AUGUST 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Germany Intensifies Efforts To Release Jamshid Sharmahd
AUGUST 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Nasirian and Hassan Ali Shakib executed in Shiraz on August 8
AUGUST 8, 2023Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDRC: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING YOUNG GIRL
A Congolese woman on August 5, 2023 was sentenced to death for the murder of a girl whose mutilated body was found near a river in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
AUGUST 7, 2023Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: 7 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ‘COLLABORATION’ WITH ISRAEL
A military court in the Gaza Strip on August 6, 2023 sentenced seven people to death by hanging for “collaboration” with Israel, the coastal enclave’s Hamas-run interior ministry said.
AUGUST 7, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: TWO TO HANG FOR KILLING SIBU SENIOR CITIZEN TO GET DRUG MONEY
Two men were sentenced to the gallows by the Sibu High Court on July 31, 2023 for robbing and murdering a senior citizen for money to buy drugs.
AUGUST 7, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF TWO-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A court in Gujarat’s Surat city on August 2, 2023 awarded death sentence to a 23-year-old man for the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl in February.
AUGUST 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Ghafar Shahiki + Unk executed in Kerman on August 7
AUGUST 6, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: S. KOREAN DRUG OFFENDER EXECUTED, FIRST IN 9 YEARS
China on August 4, 2023 executed a South Korean man who was sentenced to death for selling a large amount of drugs, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jabar Moslemi executed in Qazvin on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Eslami executed in Nishapur on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Kazemi + Unk executed in Arak on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Hashemi executed in Karaj on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on August 6
Amir Jahangiri, Javad Bazgari, Sajjad Nazari and Mohsen Sharafi (Sharfi)
AUGUST 4, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. James Phillip Barnes, 61, White, was executed
On August 4
AUGUST 3, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED OVER DRUGS IN THIRD HANGING IN WEEK
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city state’s fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on August 3, 2023.
AUGUST 3, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER PARTY CHIEF OF HANGZHOU SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR BRIBERY
Zhou Jiangyong, former Party chief of Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province, was sentenced on July 25, 2023 to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery.
AUGUST 3, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: TWO FOREIGNERS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF GRAB DRIVER
Two foreigners were sentenced to death by the High Court in Shah Alam on July 28, 2023 after they were found guilty of the murder of a local Grab driver five years ago.
AUGUST 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. U.S. District Judge Robert Colville imposed the death sentence on Robert Bowers
AUGUST 2, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN 22 YEARS AGO
A Syllhet Divisional Special Judge Court on July 24, 2023 sentenced four people to death for killing a man in Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet 22 years ago.