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JUNE 9, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: BAIDOA COURT EXECUTES CONVICTED MURDERER WHO THREW VICTIM IN THE SEWER
A court in Baidoa town on 7 June 2022 executed a man for killing a businesswoman and then dumping her body in a sewage hole in his house.
JUNE 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Amini executed in Amol Prison on June 9
- JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Takrouy and Hojat Asiabani executed in Ardabil on June 8
- JUNE 8, 2022BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
BARBADOS APPEAL COURT VACATES DEATH SENTENCE ON MAN CONVICTED FOR FIRE AT A STORE THAT KILLED SIX WOMEN
The Court of Appeal in Barbados has ruled that Jamar Dwayne Bynoe, who was previously been sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the 2010 fire at a store that resulted in the deaths of six women, return to the High Court for sentencing.
- JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khosro Tarek and Kamal Bayanirad executed in Ilam on June 8
- JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Narouyi-Ghazagh executed in Birjand on June 8
JUNE 8, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER IN NARAYANGANJ
A Narayanganj tribunal on 6 June 2022 sentenced six people to death for killing a couple in 2009.
JUNE 8, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Frank Atwood, 66, White, was executed.
7th execution this year in the USA
JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Habibi executed in Khalkhal on June 8
JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sattar Arghandeh executed in Ilam on June 8
- JUNE 7, 2022MaldivesDEATH PENALTY
MALDIVES TO CONTINUE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY: HOME MINISTER
Home Minister Imran Abdulla has said that the Maldives still has a policy of continuing the moratorium on implementation the death penalty.
- JUNE 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentence against man who killed 2 clerics
JUNE 7, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: EX-SECURITIES REGULATOR HANDED SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE
Tong Daochi, a former senior Chinese official who has worked at the World Bank, has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery.
JUNE 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Noor Ahmad Barangahzai executed in Isfahan on June 7
203 executions this year
JUNE 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Amouri, and Qadir Naseri executed in Ahvaz on June 7
- JUNE 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Six men executed in Gorgan Prison on June 6
JUNE 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Appeals Court upholds 16-year sentence against Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi
- JUNE 6, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: JUNTA SAYS WILL CARRY OUT FIRST JUDICIAL EXECUTIONS IN DECADES
Myanmar's junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country's first judicial executions since 1990.
JUNE 6, 2022Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR COLLABORATING WITH ISRAEL
A military court in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip sentenced a man to death on 6 June 2022 for cooperating with Israel.
JUNE 6, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The High Court of Trinidad and Tobago on 2 June 2022 sentenced to death two brothers after they were both found guilty of murdering a man and attempting to kill the victim’s brother and cousin 12 years ago.
JUNE 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 11 men and 1 woman executed in Zahedan Prison on June 6, 2022
JUNE 6, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Federal judge OKs Oklahoma’s lethal injection method
- JUNE 3, 2022North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
USA - North Carolina. Joshua Lee Burgess sentenced to death
- JUNE 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Karimi executed in Rasht on June 2
JUNE 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Khanjani and Farhad Ramezanian executed in Rasht on June 2
- JUNE 1, 2022Central African RepublicDEATH PENALTY
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTES TO END DEATH PENALTY
The National Assembly of the Central African Republic voted on 27 May 2022 to end capital punishment with a law passed by acclamation which must now be promulgated by President Faustin Archange Touadéra.
JUNE 1, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COP SENTENCED TO DEATH, ANOTHER GETS LIFE TERM FOR MURDERING TEENAGE STUDENT
A district court on 30 May 2022 awarded capital punishment to a police constable and life imprisonment to a volunteer cop for the Police Qaumi Razakar (PQR) for murdering a teenage student and wounding another in an alleged fake encounter in Gulshan-e-Iqb
JUNE 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed by own his own son on June 1
- MAY 31, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Judge Edward Guido formally sentenced Davone Anderson to death on May 31, 2022
MAY 31, 2022IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: COURT SENTENCES ISIS PLOTTER OF 2021 BAGHDAD MARKET BOMBING TO DEATH
An Iraqi court on 30 May 2022 sentenced to death an ISIS group member convicted of plotting a 2021 bomb attack that killed 32 people in a crowded Baghdad market.