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JANUARY 12, 2022Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: PRISON CHIEF GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MASSACRE
A top Sri Lankan prison official was sentenced to death on 12 January 2022 over the killing of 27 inmates in an execution-style massacre that attracted international condemnation.
JANUARY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 prisoners executed on January 12 at Raja’i Shahr Prison
Iranian authorities executed 8 prisoners at down on Wednesday, January 12.
JANUARY 12, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Execution doctor paid $15,000 each time death penalty carried out
- JANUARY 12, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Supreme Court lets stand decision that McGirt not retroactive
JANUARY 12, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: TWO FILIPINO NATIONALS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SELLING DRUGS OVER WHATSAPP
The Criminal Court of Abu Dhabi has sentenced two Filipino nationals to death for the crime of possession and dealing in narcotics and psychotropic substances, Khaleej Times reported on 4 January 2022.
JANUARY 11, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN WHO BEHEADED ANOTHER IN ISMAILIA SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER GRAND MUFTI'S ADVISE SOUGHT
Ismailia Criminal Court on 5 January 2022 sentenced to death Abdel Rahman Nazmy, known as “Dabour” over charges of brutally murdering a citizen and attempting to kill two others in a crowded street in Ismailia.
JANUARY 11, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON BLASPHEMY CHARGES
A Christian man on 6 January 2022 was sentenced to death in Pakistan a decade after he was charged with blasphemy.
JANUARY 11, 2022MoroccoDEATH PENALTYMOROCCO: CASSATION COURT CONFIRMS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPIST, KILLER OF 11-YEAR OLD ADNANE
The Court of Cassation in Rabat confirmed on 5 January 2022 the death penalty sentence for the 24-year-old man who raped and killed 11-year-old Adnane Bouchouf in Tangier in September 2020.
JANUARY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhang and Yasser Aliollahi executed in Zanjan Prison on January 11
For drugs
JANUARY 10, 2022RussiaDEATH PENALTYRUSSIA: CHAIR OF COSTITUTIONAL COURT DISCUSSES RETURN OF DEATH PENALTY
The moratorium on capital punishment imposed in Russia in 1997 after the country joined the Council of Europe could be lifted in the future, the chairman of the country’s Constitutional Court said on 28 December 2021.
JANUARY 10, 2022South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: MAN HANGED FOR SLAUGHTERING THREE CHILDREN
Babu Emmanuel Lokiri, the young man accused of killing the three siblings at Rock City in Juba on 1st August 2020, was hanged on 7 January 2022 afternoon in Juba.
JANUARY 10, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY AGAINST SIX IN 2016 TERRORIST ATTACK NEAR PYRAMIDS
Egypt’s Court of Cassation on 2 January 2022 commuted the death penalty against six defendants charged with being involved in a terrorist attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel in Giza in 2016.
JANUARY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile Offender Mostafa Emdadi on Death Row
JANUARY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Ghorbani officially died for “unknown reasons”
Executed on December 19
JANUARY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Rasoul Paghadam executed in Qazvin Prison on January 9
For murder
JANUARY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Vafaei, International Call To Save His Life
Political Prisoner Sentenced to Death
JANUARY 9, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantánamo Bay, 20 years on
JANUARY 4, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: KANO COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR
A Kano State High Court 15, sitting at Miller road, on 14 December 2021, sentenced one Balarabe Ahmad to death by hanging for stabbing his neighbour to death.
JANUARY 3, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD AGAINST EGYPTIAN FOR KILLING SPONSOR
Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has upheld the death sentence issued earlier by a lower court against an Egyptian man after he was found guilty of premeditated murder of his Kuwaiti sponsor, Gulf News reported on 28 December 2021.
JANUARY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Salarzehi executed in Shiraz on January 2
For drug-related offences
JANUARY 2, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: ONDO STATE GOVERNOR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF SIX CONVICTS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has ordered the release of four inmates serving various terms of imprisonment from the correctional centres in the state, while six convicts sentenced to death by hanging were commuted to life imprisonment to mark t
- JANUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report: Iran killed 52 Kurd border porters in 2021
Hengaw says
JANUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javanehha's Year End Report: Record of suppression
At least 350 executions, 3800 detentions and 112 state murders
JANUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Eshterak executed in Zabol on January 1
DECEMBER 31, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Penalty Information Center: Year End Report 2021
Virginia abolishes, 11 executions, 19 new death sentences
DECEMBER 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yasuj on December 30
DECEMBER 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 prisoners executed In Urmia on December 31, 2021
Moghadam Alizade, Hossen Abbasi Zade, Hamdullah Alami and Fayzullah Ghorbani
DECEMBER 29, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO THREW CHILDREN OUT WINDOW AND GIRLFRIEND WHO INSTIGATED THE MURDERS
A couple from western China’s Chongqing municipality were both sentenced to death on 28 December 2021 for conspiring to kill the man’s two young children from a previous marriage so they could start a new family.
DECEMBER 29, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 4 GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN OGUN
An Abeokuta High Court on 24 December 2021 sentenced four gang members to death by hanging for armed robbery.
DECEMBER 29, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERROR CHARGES
An Iraqi criminal court on 23 December 2021 handed death sentences to three people accused of having a hand in a terrorist bomb attack that targeted southeastern Iraq earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced.