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MAY 1, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. DeSantis signs death penalty and crime bills
As 2024 run looms
- APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gul Mohammad Naroi executed in Zahedan on April 30
APRIL 30, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED OR HEROIN DEALER
The Singapore Court of Appeal changed the death sentence of a heroin dealer to 10 years in prison on April 26, 2023, the same day that Singaporean Indian man Tangaraju Suppiah was executed for allegedly abetting in the trafficking of 1kg of marijuana (can
APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Feizollah Kavandi executed in Isfahan on April 30
APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jaber Aminifar executed in Birjand on April 30
APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Birjand on April 30
Mrs. Madina Sabzevan, Mohammad Shibak, Abdullah Zarouzhi
- APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Zahedan on April 29
APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Rahmani executed in Iranshahr on April 29
APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eid Mohammad Shadman executed on April 29
Not clear whether in Iranshahr or Zahedan
APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Zahedan on April 29
Nematollah Rigi Ladiz and Abdolsattar Shahuzehi
APRIL 28, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Michael Wayne Jones formally sentenced to death
APRIL 27, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
The Sindh High Court on April 17, 2023 commuted the death sentence handed down to a man into life imprisonment in a triple murder case.
APRIL 27, 2023ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE ON SCHOOL DIRECTOR FOR FATAL GOLD SHOP ROBBERY
The Thai Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty imposed by two lower courts on the former director of a primary school, who was found guilty of robbing a gold shop in Lop Buri province, killing three people and injuring another in the process.
APRIL 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - KHRN annual report on the situation of human rights in Iran
Focused on the Kurdish ethnic group
APRIL 27, 2023KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: SENTENCE OF MAN CONVICTED OF ROLE IN BRITON’S MURDER IS QUASHED
A man found guilty of being part of a gang of pirates who murdered a British tourist 12 years ago has had his conviction quashed by Kenya’s high court.
APRIL 26, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Board denies clemency for Glossip
Against the advice of the Attorney General
APRIL 26, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Steven Mulkey sentenced to death
APRIL 26, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN HANGED FOR TRAFFICKING 1KG OF CANNABIS
Singapore on April 26, 2023 hanged 46-year-old Indian-origin Tangaraju Suppiah who was found guilty in 2018 of trafficking more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of cannabis, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from his family and activists.
APRIL 26, 2023YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: FOUR JOURNALISTS ON DEATH ROW RELEASED IN PRISONER EXCHANGE
Journalists Tawfiq Al-Mansoori, Abdul Khaleq Amran, Akram Al-Waleedi and Hareth Humaid, who had been sentenced to death for their journalistic work, have been released as part of a prisoner exchange on 16 April 2023, they had spent eight years behind bars
APRIL 26, 2023GermanyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Sharmahd’s death sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court
German-Iranian citizen
APRIL 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Plea to Save Ahmadreza Djalali
Iranian-Swedish Scholar in Death Row
APRIL 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Chahargosheh executed in Gohardasht on April 24
APRIL 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Nikouyi executed in Gohardasht on April 24
APRIL 23, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PLOUGHING CAR INTO PEDESTRIANS, KILLING 5
A driver who killed five and injured 13 others by ploughing his car into pedestrians in China in January has been sentenced to death, a Guangzhou court said on April 18, 2023.
APRIL 21, 2023WashingtonDEATH PENALTYUSA - Washington. The state officially abolishes death penalty
- APRIL 20, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. DeSantis Signs Law Lowering Death Penalty Threshold
APRIL 20, 2023IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 8 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ISIS ACTIVITY IN JAIL
A court in Baghdad on 18 April 2023 sentenced eight people to death for attempting to organize the Islamic State (ISIS) in prison.
APRIL 20, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 3298 INMATES ON DEATH ROW - GOVERNORS HESITANT TO SIGN DEATH WARRANTS (NCOS)
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) says 3,298 inmates across custodial centres in Nigeria are on death row.
APRIL 20, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. House Approves Bill Limiting Death Penalty in ‘Law of Parties’ Cases
HB 1736 by Jeff Leach (R)
APRIL 19, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Joseph Jean’s death sentence overturned