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JANUARY 18, 2023North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER RI YONG-HO LIKELY EXECUTED LAST YEAR
Former North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho appears to have been executed last year, a Japanese newspaper reported on 4 January 2023.
JANUARY 18, 2023MoroccoDEATH PENALTYMOROCCO: KING MOHAMMED VI GRANTS PARDON TO 991 CONVICTS FOR INDEPENDENCE MANIFESTO DAY
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has granted a royal pardon to 991 convicts on the occasion of the country’s Independence Manifesto Day, the Justice Ministry announced.
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghodrat Zibarom executed in Ilam on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sharaf Khan Akbari + Unk. executed in Karaj on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nima Vahidi and Omid Karimi executed in Isfahan on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - European Parliament passed a resolution that puts the IRGC on the terrorist list
JANUARY 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Sheikh Panahi executed in Isfahan on January 18, 2023
JANUARY 17, 2023ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY ON WOMAN WHO SET LOVER ABLAZE
A Zambian appeals court has upheld a death penalty imposed on a woman of Ndola who burnt her former boyfriend with petrol resulting in his death a few days later after he ended their relationship, Zambia Daily Mail reported on 17 January 2023.
JANUARY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamel Dodkanlou and Farhad Hosseini executed in Salmas on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California is doing away with death row, relocating inmates
- JANUARY 17, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Feds won’t seek death penalty against Patrick Crusius
El Paso Walmart gunman accused of massacring 23 people
JANUARY 17, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: VULCANIZER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ROBBING NURSE
A 32-year-old vulcanizer, Chidozie Onyinchiz, on 17 January 2023 was sentenced to death by hanging by an Ikeja Special Offences Court, presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada.
JANUARY 17, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES 4 TO DEATH BY HANGING IN OSUN
An Osun High Court sitting in Osogbo, on 16 January 2023 sentenced four persons to death by hanging for murder and other related offences.
JANUARY 16, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CIVILIAN KILLING
A Somali soldier - Qasim Duale Abdi - was sentenced to death on 15 January 2023 for killing a civilian after refusing to pay him extortion, an army officer said.
JANUARY 15, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: PROSECUTORS SEEK DEATH PENALTY FOR ACADEMIC OVER SOCIAL MEDIA USE
A prominent law professor in Saudi Arabia is facing the death penalty for alleged crimes including having a Twitter account and using WhatsApp to share news considered “hostile” to the kingdom, according to court documents seen by the Guardian.
JANUARY 15, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Airgas refuses to supply nitrogen for executions
JANUARY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Tahmasebi executed in Bandar Abbas on January 17
The news published on March 13
JANUARY 14, 2023United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari
Accused of spying for Great Britain
JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 74 women killed during nationwide uprising of women
- JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on January 14
Already 31 executions in the first 2 weeks of the year
JANUARY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran executions: the role of the ‘revolutionary courts’ in breaching human rights
JANUARY 12, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Scott Eizember executed on January 12
JANUARY 12, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: EX-ARMY OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROLE IN MOGADISHU BOMBINGS
The Court of the Armed Forces of Somalia has sentenced to death a former army official – Sharif Mohamed Barkhadle Ayanle for his role in Mogadishu blasts, Shabelle Media reported on 12 January 2023.
JANUARY 12, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Michael Wayne Jones sentenced to death
Killed wife and 4 children
JANUARY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maher Eyluli and Ali Abbaszadeh executed in Shiraz on January 12
- JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 of the 5 men executed in Arak on January 11 have been identified
Ali Geravand, Azad Dadvand, Kaiwan Amini Tawakol
JANUARY 11, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 2 SIBLINGS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING RADIO STATION STAFF
Two siblings have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria after a court found them guilty of the killing of a radio station staff, Pulse reported on 22 December 2022.
- JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Haji executed in Karaj on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING FIVE-YEAR-OLD
A court in Uttar Pradesh on 11 January 2023 awarded a death sentence to a man for raping and killing a five-year-old girl in 2021.