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MARCH 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Nasirkhah executed in Urmia Prison on March 14
- MARCH 13, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: SEVEN EXECUTED OVER ISLAMIST ATTACKS THAT KILLED POLICEMEN
Egyptian authorities executed seven men on 9 and 10 March 2022 in connection with “politically motivated” cases, and after a legal process marred by torture and lack of evidence, a rights group has told Middle East Eye.
- MARCH 13, 2022BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONDEMNS EXECUTION
The UN Human Rights Committee on 10 March 2022 condemned Belarus for its execution of Victor Pavlov, whose petition was still being examined by the Committee.
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Firooz Moosa-Lou sentenced to death
For membership in the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafizollah Rakhshani executed in Zahedan Prison on March 13
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz prison on March 13
Jamshid Fadaei, Hossein Mehrabani, and 2 not identified
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison on March 13
One identified as Najaf Anjom
MARCH 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alam Yarahmedzehi executed in Khash prison on March 12
(Also Yar-Ahmadzehi)
MARCH 10, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO EXECUTED OVER MURDER OF FREEDOM FIGHTER AT CUMILLA CENTRAL JAIL
Two convicted of the 2003 murder of Chattogram Railway official and freedom fighter Shafiuddin Ahmed, were executed at Cumilla Central Jail on 8 March 2022 night.
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden renunciates to try two suspected Iranian secret agents
- MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahab … executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 10
Surname not known
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nizam Ali Mirzaei executed in Miandoab Prison on March 10
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sepideh Qoliyan is gravely ill
The prisoner of conscience needs of urgent medical care
- MARCH 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 9
One identified by his surname, Salarzehi
- MARCH 9, 2022IdahoDEATH PENALTY
USA - Idaho. HB 658 to shield lethal injection drug providers fails to advance out of Senate Judiciary Committee
MARCH 9, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: CHIEF JUSTICE CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘CRUEL TREATMENT’ OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY
China’s chief justice has called for the death penalty for serious offences involving “cruel treatment” of women, children and the elderly, in an apparent response to public fury over recently exposed human trafficking cases.
MARCH 9, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER, RAPE OF WOMAN AND DAUGHTER IN GUJARAT
A court in Gujarat on 7 March 2022 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a woman and her 11-year-old daughter in 2018, a case that had triggered national outrage. His accomplice was given life imprisonment on the charge of murder.
MARCH 9, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: 16 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2016 ATTACKS
A Tunisian court sentenced 16 people to death in the first judgments against militants involved in 2016 attacks near the Libyan border that left scores dead, media reported on 5 March 2022.
MARCH 9, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. DA Concedes Byron Black Is Intellectually Disabled
Thus Ineligible for Execution
- MARCH 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 17 Women Executed in 2021
2 Hanged by Own Children
- MARCH 8, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 4 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2014 MURDER OF 2 POLICEMEN
A Sharqiya criminal court handed on 3 March 2022 death sentences against four men and handed 7-15 jail terms to 26 others for murdering two policemen and attempting to murder other security personnel in 2014.
- MARCH 8, 2022YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF KERALA NURSE
An Appeals Court in Yemen on 7 March 2022 upheld death penalty for Keralite nurse Nimisha Priya (33) who is charged with murder of a Yemen youth back in 2017, a killing she maintains was accidental and at end of mental torture and business fraud on part o
- MARCH 7, 2022RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIAN MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY NOT CONNECTED TO RUSSIA'S MEMBERSHIP IN COUNCIL OF EUROPE, IT HAS NO DEFINITE TERM - FEDERATION COUNCIL COMMITTEE HEAD
The moratorium on the death penalty in Russia has no definite term and is not connected to Russia's membership in the Council of Europe, Andrei Klishas, the head of the Federation Council Constitutional Legislation and State-Building Committee, said on 2
MARCH 7, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN DIES IN PRISON
An Egyptian man, who was sentenced to death for killing his three children with help of his two wives, died in prison before the death penalty could be carried out, Gulf News reported on 3 March 2022, citing local media.
MARCH 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has to return to prison tomorrow (March 8).
After a brief furlough following heart surgery
MARCH 7, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Senate OK’s HB 873 to withhold information in executions
- MARCH 6, 2022DEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Markeith Loyd receives death penalty
- MARCH 6, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS STILL SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY IN LATEST MHA SURVEY
The majority of Singapore residents still support the death penalty, Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on 3 March 2022, citing preliminary findings from a survey conducted last year.
MARCH 6, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Feds appeal reversal in Alfonso Rodriguez death penalty case
MARCH 4, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev