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DECEMBER 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: KANO CLERIC SHEIKH KABARA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, was on 15 December 2022 sentenced to death by hanging by an Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano State for alleged blasphemy.
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasim Salarzahi and Aziz Gargij executed on December 17
619 executions in 2022
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Authorities arrested Taraneh Alidoosti
one of the country’s most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about protests
DECEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sonia Sharifi released on bail
Young girl accused of ‘enmity against God’
DECEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Releases Teen After Mother’s Interview Goes Viral On Social Media
15-year-old Amirhossein Rahimi
DECEMBER 16, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA DPIC 2022 Year End Report
22 death sentences and 18 executions in 2022
DECEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Tehran Doctor Tortured And Killed For Treating Wounded Protesters
Aida Rostami, also Ayda Rostami
DECEMBER 15, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES AL-SHABAAB CONVICT TO DEATH
A military court in Mogadishu on 12 December 2022 sentenced a suspected al-Shabaab member to death amid the government stepped up operation against the group in south-central Somalia.
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sonia Sharifi, 17, charged with ‘waging war on God’
The young protester is at risk of death sentence
DECEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON TWO COUNTS IN RAPE-CUM-DOUBLE MURDER CASE
A Rawalpindi district and sessions court on 29 November 2022 handed down death penalty on two counts to an accused involved in a rape-cum-double murder case.
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirza-Beigi executed in Qazvin on 15 December
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Shariati executed in Kerman “in mid December”
The news reached the NGOs only on January 27, 2023.
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadali Seyedi executed in Qazvin on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Heidarzadeh executed in Zanjan on December 15
617 executions since the beginning of the year
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Amini and Amir Abbasi executed in Rasht on December 15
- DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Tajik executed in Karaj Central Prison on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five unidentified men executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Thomas Edwin Loden, 58, White, was executed
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Khoshbakht and Hamed Nobakht executed in Hamadan on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: THREE PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Myanmar’s military court in June 2022 sentenced Wai Zin Yan, Thu Htoo Aung, and Min Htet Thar to death under section 302 of the penal code for an incident.
DECEMBER 14, 2022TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: MAN RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CLERK WHO ASKED HIM TO MASK UP
A paper sculpture artist was handed the death penalty by Taoyuan District Court on 13 December 2022 for stabbing to death a convenience store clerk who asked him to wear a mask.
- DECEMBER 14, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: MAN WHO MURDERED WOMAN IN FRONT OF HER DAUGHTER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A stalker who tried to kidnap a woman to force her to marry him and then murdered her in front of her daughter and niece when she refused to go with him has been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuwait, Mirror reported on 14 December 2022.
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN UN removes Iran from women's rights body
UNCSW, over protest crackdown
DECEMBER 13, 2022EthiopiaDEATH PENALTYETHIOPIA: FEDERAL POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SOMALI REGION MP
An Ethiopian federal police officer was sentenced to death on 12 December 2022 by a military court in Jigjiga for the shooting death of Somali region MP Juweria Subcis in late October.
DECEMBER 13, 2022OregonDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row
DECEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Protestors Awaiting Execution in Karaj
Mohammad-Mehdi Karami, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Hamid Ghara-Hasanlu and Hossein Mohammadi
- DECEMBER 13, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER RAPE, MURDER OF UNILORIN STUDENT
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of Kwara State High Court on 13 December 2022 sentenced three persons to death by hanging over the rape and murder of a 300-level undergraduate of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Omowumi Olajide.
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Narouei executed in Shiraz on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Isa Narouei executed in Zahedan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Arak on December 12
Mohammad Imani, Ehsan Naseri, Mostafa Kashi + 2 unk