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JANUARY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on January 30
Rasul Safarzaei, Obaidullah Safarzaei, Habib Sarani, and ... Behzadi
JANUARY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hasan Javanroudian executed in Karaj on January 30
JANUARY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmaeil Kachalanlu executed in Mako prison on January 30
JANUARY 29, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYIRAN - US Indicts Three In Iran-Backed Plot To Kill Masih Alinejad
A U.S. journalist of Iranian origin now living in New York
JANUARY 29, 2023IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 14 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER CAMP SPEICHER MASSACRE
Iraq's judiciary has sentenced 14 people to death over the 2014 Camp Speicher massacre.
JANUARY 29, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ANDHRA PRADESH FOR RAPE-MURDER OF 7-YR-OLD GIRL
A court in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 25 January 2023 awarded death sentence to a man for raping and killing his relative, a seven-year-old girl in July 2021.
- JANUARY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Shokripour executed in Karaj on January 26
JANUARY 26, 2023MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER U.N. PEACEKEEPER DEATHS
A court in Mali has sentenced a man to death over a 2019 attack that killed three United Nations peacekeepers, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said on 25 January 2023 without naming the defendant.
JANUARY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Heydari executed in Khalkhal on January 26
58 executions in January
JANUARY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on January 26
Reza Shokri, Omid Shokri, Majid Shah Mohammadi and Borjali Karami
JANUARY 26, 2023North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. James McKamey sentenced to death
JANUARY 26, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Family Members of Murder Victims Call on North Carolina, Nevada to Commute States’ Death Rows
JANUARY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 18 year-old Protester Shoaib Mir Baluchzehi Rigi sentenced to death
JANUARY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Aghale executed in Qazvin on January 25
JANUARY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kurdish Pregnant Inmate Shahla Abdi Faces
A protester arrested in October
JANUARY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Yusuf Zahi executed in Bandar Abbas on January 25
JANUARY 25, 2023KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: 43% OF PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING DURING TRIAL - REPORT
Fourty-three per cent of inmates on death row did not understand what was happening during their trial. This is according to a report launched on 24 January 2023 by the Death Penalty Project, in partnership with Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
JANUARY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Kambiz Kharoot, 20, sentenced to death
JANUARY 24, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SON AMONG SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HOUSEWIFE'S MURDER IN NOAKHALI
A court has handed down the death penalty to seven people for the murder of a woman in Noakhali in 2020. One of the convicts is the victim's son.
JANUARY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 Men executed in Arak on January 24
Omid Azni, Behnam… + Unk
JANUARY 24, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN TIGHTENS BLASPHEMY LAWS THAT ALREADY CARRY DEATH PENALTY
In a move that has alarmed human rights activists in Pakistan, the Shehbaz Sharif government has approved a bill that will strengthen the country's contentious anti-blasphemy laws.
JANUARY 23, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN MYMENSINGH
The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced six people to death in Mymensingh's Trishal upazila for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
JANUARY 23, 2023South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: CABINET UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY
The Government of South Sudan has said it will not abolish the death penalty and insists it is a deterrent to prevent serious crimes, Africa-Press reported on 22 January 2023.
JANUARY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Zalitabar executed in Karaj on January 23
JANUARY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on January 23
Saman Nabi- Garusi, Abolfazl Baraghani-Nejad, Sabina Esmailzadeh + Unk.
JANUARY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Ebrahim Narouei sentenced to death
JANUARY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The IRGC’s Terrorist Designation Frightens The Regime
JANUARY 23, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Billy Ray Waldon’s death sentence overturned
JANUARY 23, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Steven Wolf sentenced to death
JANUARY 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protesters Hasan Firouzi and Mohammad Ekhtiarian Slip Into Coma In Detention