The people on death row
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On death row live the people who have been sentenced and are waiting to be executed. The wait can last years or decades, often in isolation, with a date that arrives or is put off again and again. It is a punishment inside the punishment, and in many countries the number of people held there is the hardest figure of all to obtain.
This page collects the news on the people on death row, on the conditions they are held in, and on the numbers the association is able to document.
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NOVEMBER 23, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 17 EXECUTED FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENCES
Since 10 November 2022, Saudi Arabia has executed 17 men for what were termed drug and contraband offences, with three taking place on 21 November.
NOVEMBER 17, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Alabama Tries and Fails to Execute Kenneth Smith
NOVEMBER 9, 2022DEATH PENALTYECPM: 8TH WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY IN BERLIN FROM 15 TO 18 NOVEMBER 2022
Under the high patronage of Germany and the sponsorship of the Swiss and French governments as well as the European Union, Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) is organizing, in partnership with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP), th
OCTOBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Borujerd on October 27
202nd execution of women in Iran since 2007
- OCTOBER 25, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTY
DEATH ROW PRISONERS LAUNCH LEGAL CHALLENGE TO JAPAN’S NO-NOTICE EXECUTIONS
Two prisoners sentenced to death in Japan have launched a legal challenge against how the country applies the death penalty, Vatican News reported on 24 October 2022.
OCTOBER 24, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: JUSTICE SAMUEL ASIEDU ADVOCATES ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, nominated to the Supreme Court, has advocated the abolition of the Death Penalty.
OCTOBER 24, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Scott Peterson moved off death row
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Governor signs laws that will reduce death row
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Spring 2022
2,414 people on US death row, but "only" 1385 at "real risk of execution"
AUGUST 31, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. California Passes Legislation that will reduce death row
AUGUST 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Saroni executed in the last days of August in Gonbad-e Kavus
- AUGUST 16, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Death sentences lowered for James N. Blair and Anderson Hawthorne
To life without parole, at DA’s request
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.
JULY 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 3,084 MALES, 61 FEMALES ON DEATH ROW
There are no fewer than 3,145 inmates on death row in custodial centres across Nigeria, PUNCH reported on 10 July 2022.
- JULY 1, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 2022 DPIC Mid-Year Review
7 new death sentences and 7 executions so far
- JUNE 27, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN HAS 239 PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW
A total of 239 are on death row in Jordan, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Legal Committee Ghazi Al-Thneibat announced on 26 June 2022.
JUNE 21, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: 1,341 PRISONERS IN LIMBO
The lives of nearly 1,350 death-row inmates are hanging in the balance in the prisons of Malaysia.
- MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on the prison situation
APRIL 21, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Carl Wayne Buntion executed on April 21
- 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 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 50 political prisoners await execution
A report from Javanehha
- MARCH 14, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - The latest edition of "Death Row USA" Drusa has been published
State Death Rows Drop Below 2,400 For First Time Since 1990
FEBRUARY 22, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Death sentence of Kevin Dowling overturned
FEBRUARY 17, 2022DEATH PENALTYIRAN: 85 MINORS IN THE DEATH ROW (AS OF NOVEMBER 2021)
UN human rights experts on 25 November 2021 strongly condemned the execution of Arman Abdolali, convicted for an alleged murder committed when he was 17, and demanded that Iran stop sentencing children to death.
FEBRUARY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile offender Mohammadreza Hadadi’s conviction overturned
19 years on death row
- FEBRUARY 14, 2022OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. David Sneed removed from death row via mental illness law
FEBRUARY 9, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA -Published "Death Row USA" updated to October 1, 2021
2,455 people on death row
- FEBRUARY 1, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 488 CONVICTS ON DEATH ROW AT THE END OF 2021
There are about 488 convicts on death row across India at the end of December 2021, the highest since 2004.
JANUARY 31, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Pervis Payne Resentenced to Concurrent Life Terms
Eligible for Parole in Five Years After 34 Years on Death Row