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MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Bazi executed in Gorgan on May 23
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MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Sharifi and Ali Tabib executed in Isfahan on May 23
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maysam Sadri executed in Zanjan on May 23
MAY 23, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. 9th Circuit Overturns Death Penalty for Tauno Waidla
- MAY 22, 2023Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: JUNTA COURT HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO 5 RESISTANCE MEMBERS
Five resistance members accused of shooting dead four police officers on a Yangon train were sentenced to death by a junta court at Insein Prison on May 15, 2023, according to lawyers familiar with the case.
MAY 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Summer 2022 Report: 2,394 on death row
MAY 22, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE RELEASES PRISONERS IN AMNESTY, REDUCING OVERCROWDING
Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty that authorities say will help ease congestion in some overcrowded jails.
MAY 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Grave of Zhina Mahsa Amini vandalised in Saqqez
MAY 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A prisoner named Milad Bahmanzadeh died of heart attack before his execution
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 20
Saeed Garavand, Samad Garavand, and Shahab Mansourinesb Garavand
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asif Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on May 20
295 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 20, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES TWO MEN IN BAIDOA
Somali military court in Baidoa executed two men by firing squad in Baidoa on the morning of May 18, 2023.
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shaban Yousefi executed in Gohardasht on May 20
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahrooz Sokhanvari executed in Gohardasht on May 20
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 more execution in Ghezel-Hesar on May 20
Shahram Sharqi
- MAY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on May 19
Yaghoub Hassani, Mazhar Davari, Ali Mehrdel, Kazem Ghofrankhah
MAY 19, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Joseph Clifton Smith cannot be executed due to intellectual disability
MAY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi executed in Isfahan on 19 May
Accused of a 'political' crime
MAY 19, 2023OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. New trial ordered for Lamont Hunter
Who spent 15 years on death row
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mustafa Salehi executed in Sanandaj on May 18
MAY 18, 2023ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: MAYOR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER LAND ACTIVIST’S MURDER
The Lower Court sentenced the former Mayor of Wang Wiset district to the death penalty on May 17, 2023 over the murder of a lawyer and land rights activist in Trang province, southern Thailand, two years ago.
MAY 18, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING FATHER
A Pakistani District and Sessions Court on May 17, 2023 awarded death sentence to an accused involved in the murder of his father.
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Kaimi executed in Sanandaj on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on May 18
Hossein Poursheikh, Omid Jan Abadi, Nabiollah Zaboli + Unk
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cousins Mostafa and Farhad Vafayi executed in Rasht on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 18
Ali Khoramshah Amrayi, Najaf Soleiman Reshad, Firouz Yarinejad + Unk
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Rigi executed in Jiroft on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - An man Afghan executed in Gohardasht on 18 May
Identified as Saeed, or Masoud
MAY 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Dakota (Federal). Life in prison for Alfonso Rodriguez
MAY 17, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN EKITI
The Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on May 15, 2023 sentenced three men to death by hanging for conspiracy and armed robbery in the state.