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AUGUST 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men and 1 woman executed in Shiraz on August 22
141st woman executed in Iran since summer of 2013
AUGUST 23, 2022OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Court overturns Odraye Jones' death sentence
AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolfazl Sharifi executed in Qazvin on August 22
AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Kamali executed in Dastgerd prison on 22 August
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moein Atashbar executed in Saravan on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Brahui executed in Iranshahr on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Zahedan on August 20
One, Omid Alizahi, was a juvenile offender
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Piri executed in Zabol on August 20
AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 18
Saeed Kashani, Khodarahm Narouyi, Hamid Narouyi, Seyed Abbas Mousavi and Amir Ali Shahiki
AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 11 prisoners executed in Arak prison
On August 14, 17, and 18, 2022
- AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 18
Amir Shahiki, Abbas Mousavi, Hamid Narooie, Khodarahm Narooie, and Saeed Kashani
AUGUST 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohiyedin Damani executed in Birjand on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Kosoul Chanthakoummane, 41, executed
AUGUST 16, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Death sentences lowered for James N. Blair and Anderson Hawthorne
To life without parole, at DA’s request
- AUGUST 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Misagh Yavari executed in Khorramabad on August 15
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Rahmani and Mostafa Rasoulzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 14
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Saeed Narouyi xecuted in Sari on August 14
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 inmates executed in Arak Prison on August 14
Mohammad Mashhadolkoobeh, Vahid Mousakhani, Hossein Abadi and 1 unknown
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Alizadeh executed in Qom on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Bagherpour-Sarabi e Milad Badarkhani executed in Saveh on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Probable Juvenile Offender executed in Qom on August 10
Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 inmates executed in Arak on August 10, 2022
One of the inmates identified as Mehdi Noor-Karami
AUGUST 8, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Ronald Prible’s death sentence restored
AUGUST 7, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Clinton Lee Young, released from death row in January, arrested again
AUGUST 6, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: ANOTHER DOUBLE DAWN HANGING CARRIED OUT
Two more death row inmates were hanged at dawn on 5 August 2022 for drug trafficking in a double execution at Singapore's Changi Prison, after the inmates waited 10 hours until past midnight to learn if their appeal in court would succeed.
AUGUST 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Ghareh Lar and Mojtaba Ramin executed in Qom
On August 1 and 6
AUGUST 5, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Derrick Dearman has four of ten capital murder convictions thrown out
AUGUST 4, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX MEMBERS OF 'RAZAKAR BAHINI' SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING THE 1971 LIBERATION WAR
Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal on 28 July 2022 sentenced six members of the paramilitary force 'Razakar Bahini' to death for collaborating with the Pakistani Army for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 Liberation War.
AUGUST 4, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, on 1st August 2022, sentenced two kidnappers, 41 years old Kola Makinde, and 30 years old Haruna Bika, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
AUGUST 3, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAB MILITANTS EXECUTE 7 BY FIRING SQUAD
Somali-based militant group al-Shabab on 30 July 2022 executed seven men, including a soldier, in Somalia’s southwestern region of Bay.