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FEBRUARY 2, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: DEATH PENALTY USE HAS ALMOST DOUBLED UNDER RULE OF MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
The use of the death penalty under the rule of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his father, King Salman, has almost doubled annually since they rose to power, according to a new report seen by ABC News.
FEBRUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shocking Photos Of Hunger-Striking Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami
FEBRUARY 2, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Robert Satterfield sentenced to death
FEBRUARY 2, 2023South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina Bill S 120, shielding death penalty drugmakers, advances
FEBRUARY 2, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Wesley Ruiz, 43, Hispanic, was executed on February 1
FEBRUARY 1, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES HUSBAND'S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
A Bangladesh High Court on 29 January 2023 commuted the death penalty of Abdul Jalil to life imprisonment in a case filed over killing his wife Malati Begum in Barguna in 2003.
FEBRUARY 1, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: CALCUTTA HIGH COURT COMMUTES THE DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR TWO
The Calcutta High Court on 31 January 2023 commuted the death sentence of two persons, convicted of abduction, rape, and murder of a minor girl at Balagarh in West Bengal's Hooghly district to imprisonment for life without remission till the end of their
FEBRUARY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed on February 1 in Gohardasht
FEBRUARY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Zali Tabar and Omid Ali Kohi executed in Karaj last week
- FEBRUARY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Rasi Azar executed in Gohardasht on February 1
JANUARY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Allahverdi and Farhang Zakayi executed in Shiraz on January 31
JANUARY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Already 18 Kurds executed since the beginning of the year
JANUARY 31, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 9-YEAR-OLD
A 22-year-old man was sentenced to death on 30 January 2023 by a special court for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cases in Vapi of Valsad district (Gujarat) for the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in February 2020.
- JANUARY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men executed in Tabriz on January 31
JANUARY 31, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH ARRESTS TWO FUGITIVES CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR WAR CRIMES
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested two fugitives who were handed the death sentence for committing crimes against humanity in Mymensingh during the Liberation War.
JANUARY 30, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 165 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 2022, HIGHEST IN 2 DECADES
Trial courts in India sentenced 165 people to death in 2022, the highest in a year in the last two decades. This is up from 146 prisoners who were sent to death row in 2021.
JANUARY 30, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: GUJARAT MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING THREE FAMILY MEMBERS
A court in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on 25 January 2023 convicted the accused in a 2019 triple murder case - all the victims being members of his family - and sentenced him to death.
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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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