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JULY 17, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: KINDERGARTEN TEACHER EXECUTED FOR POISONING 25 STUDENTS, KILLING 1
A kindergarten teacher found to have poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed, according to a court in central China.
JULY 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Sediq Hormozi executed in Bandar Abbas on July 16
JULY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jahedullah Maaruf (Jahedollah Marouf) executed in Isfahan on July 15
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghaedi and Sadegh Mahmoodi Baram executed publicly on July 13
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Jiroft on July 13
Mehdi Shariati, Rashid Dehmordeh, and “Salarifar”
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Dolkhani and Amir Islamdoost executed in Urmia on July 13
JULY 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal death penalty ban reintroduced in Congress
JULY 13, 2023KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: DEATH ROW SUSPECT SET FREE OVER GIRLFRIEND'S CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE
Kenya Court of Appeal on July 7, 2023 granted the appeal of a man who had been sentenced to death for armed robbery.
JULY 12, 2023KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR TWO MEN WHO VIOLENTLY ROBBED WOMAN
An Eldoret Court on July 5, 2023 sentenced to death two men for the offence of robbery with violence.
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fatemeh Yousef Abadi, a woman, executed in Gohardasht on July 12
JULY 12, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE BROTHERS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FATHER
A Cumilla court has sentenced three brothers to death penalty for beating their father to death at Monohorganj of the district. They were also fined Tk 20,000 each.
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Hosseinpour executed in Maku on July 12
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Zarouni executed in Ilam on July 12
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on July 12
JULY 11, 2023LaosDEATH PENALTYLAOS: WEAK LAWS MEAN DEATH-ROW INMATES WON’T FACE EXECUTION ANYTIME SOON
More than 500 prison inmates have been sentenced to death in Laos – some more than a decade ago – but the country’s dysfunctional legal system and unclear prison procedures have left the inmates languishing for years, the country’s minister of public secu
JULY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Musa Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 11
JULY 11, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Leslie Van Houten, follower of Charles Manson, released from prison
JULY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bakhtiar Cheraghi executed in Kermanshah on July 11
JULY 10, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2001 MURDER OF GARDENER IN DHAKA
A Dhaka court has handed down the death sentence to two people in a decades-old case over the murder of a nursery gardener in Dhaka's Cantonment area.
JULY 10, 2023Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: TWO ALLEGED ASSASSINS SUMMARILY EXECUTED IN JUNTA CUSTODY
Myanmar’s military reportedly killed two individuals affiliated with the country’s anti-coup armed resistance movement on July 6, 2023 in an apparent summary execution.
JULY 9, 2023Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: NIGERIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A Nigerian national who was found guilty for possession and trafficking 249.19g of Cocaine on July 6, 2023 was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.
JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Shahuzehi executed in Kerman on June 9
JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Alizehi executed in Zahedan on June 9
JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two unidentified men executed in Arak on July 9
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 women executed in Isfahan on July 9
Monireh Sayadat and Farzieh Shokrollahi
JULY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeem Hashem Ghotali hanged in public on July 8
Afghan citizens charged with terrorism
JULY 7, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Patrick Crusius, who killed 23 people, sentenced to 90 life terms
Crusius is White
JULY 6, 2023JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF RELATIVE
The Court of Cassation has upheld a June 2022 Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after he was convicted of murdering a 69-year-old relative in June 2021, The Jordan Times reported on July 5, 2023.
JULY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Rashgi and Saber Moghadami executed in Adel Abad on July 6
JULY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Hakimi executed in Qom on July 6