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- MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Top official on women’s affairs encourages child marriage
Ensieh Khazali
- MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Iran summoned Sweden’s ambassador
following a request by Swedish prosecutors for life imprisonment for Hamid Noury
MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Kargardastjerdi, a special woman
She saved 32 men from the gallows
MAY 2, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Gov. Bill Lee suspends all 2022 executions
- MAY 1, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: MAN RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SISTER, STEALING PARENTS’ MONEY
A man from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region on 12 April 2022 was condemned to death for murdering his elder sister and stealing their parents’ money last year.
- MAY 1, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MALAYSIAN NAGAENTHRAN EXECUTED ON DRUGS CHARGES
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a Malaysian with learning disabilities who was convicted of drug trafficking in 2010 and whose case attracted global attention, has been executed in Singapore’s Changi prison.
APRIL 29, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Jury recommends death sentence for David Ware
APRIL 28, 2022ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: TWO POLICE OFFICERS TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING SUSPECT IN CUSTODY
Zambia High Court has sentenced two police officers to death by hanging for killing a suspect in custody, Zambia Daily Mail reported on 12 April 2022.
APRIL 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Annual Report on the Death Penalty - 2021
At least 333 people were executed in 2021
APRIL 27, 2022IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ‘TERRORIST’ SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DHI QAR
The Dhi Qar criminal court on 25 April 2022 issued a death sentence against a ‘terrorist’, a security source reported.
APRIL 27, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Timothy Wayne Fletcher sentenced to death
- APRIL 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fakhreddin Waledi and Hossein Joushan in executed in Isfahan on April 27
- APRIL 26, 2022DEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Death sentence of Robert Bloom reversed.
APRIL 26, 2022ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO KILLED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
A Thai man on 20 April 2022 was sentenced to death over the murder of a high school student in Trang province, southern Thailand, in 2018.
APRIL 26, 2022South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Executions Halted Amid Challenges to Constitutionality of Firing Squad and Electric Chair
APRIL 26, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Joe Biden grants clemency to 78 people
But no federal death row inmates
APRIL 25, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Melissa Lucio granted temporary stay of execution
But no clemency
APRIL 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi Sentenced to 16 Years Imprisonment
Earlier threats to sentence them to death
- APRIL 24, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: AMERICAN MURDER SUSPECT SENTENCED TO DEATH
Shadeed Abdulmateen, an American national, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide by the Intermediate People's Court of Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province on 21 April 2022.
- APRIL 21, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR ARABIAN RANCHES DOUBLE MURDER
A construction worker who stabbed an Indian couple to death in their bed was handed the death penalty by the Dubai Criminal Court on 20 April 2022.
APRIL 21, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Carl Wayne Buntion executed on April 21
APRIL 20, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KILLING OF SRI LANKAN
A Pakistan court on 18 April 2022 sentenced six people to death and nine others to life in prison after convicting them for their roles in last year’s vigilante killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused by workers of committing blasphemy.
APRIL 20, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING HIS MOTHER
The Court of Cassation upheld a Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a 42-year-old man to death after convicting him of murdering his mother in Amman, Jordan Times reported on 17 April 2022.
APRIL 18, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Richard Allen Johnson sentenced twice to life in prison
- APRIL 15, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Warren Hardy sentenced to death
APRIL 14, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. 19 out of 31 Senators call to stop Melissa Lucio's execution
APRIL 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death in Custody of Protester Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi
Iran Human Rights Calls for International Fact-Finding Mission
APRIL 13, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HUMAYUN AZAD MURDER CASE
A Dhaka court has sentenced four to death in the murder of Humayun Azad, the first known victim of a series of attacks by suspected militants in Bangladesh.
- APRIL 12, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
ISRAELI ON UAE DEATH ROW WON'T BE EXECUTED, OFFICIAL SAYS
Fida Kiwan, the Israeli woman sentenced to death for drug smuggling in the United Arab Emirates will not be executed but will serve a prison sentence instead, a senior Israeli official said on 5 April 2022.
APRIL 12, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: YOUNG WOMAN CONVICTED OF HUSBAND’S MURDER ESCAPES THE GALLOWS
A 22-year-old woman escaped the death penalty in Malaysia on 10 April 2022, when the Muar High Court ordered her to be jailed for a period until pardoned by the Sultan of Johor, after she was found guilty of killing her husband five years ago.