Archive timeline
2018
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2018, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2018
OCTOBER 8, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR KHALAF MURDER CONVICT
The Supreme Court on 7 October 2018 upheld the death penalty for Saiful Islam rejecting his review plea in Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al-Ali murder case.
OCTOBER 8, 2018NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCE POLICE OFFICER TO DIE BY HANGING
A Bayelsa state High Court VII sitting in Yenagoa on 5 October 2018 sentenced Cpl. Vincent Olama to death by hanging for extrajudicial killing.
OCTOBER 8, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE PRISONERS EXECUTED AT RAJAI SHAHR PRISON
Based on information from Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources, three prisoners held at Rajai Shahr Prison were executed on the morning of 3 October 2018.
OCTOBER 8, 2018JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: DEATH SENTENCE FINALIZED FOR CHINESE MAN OVER 2009 DOUBLE MURDER IN AICHI
A death sentence was finalized on 2 October 2018 for a 35-year-old Chinese man convicted of murdering two people in 2009, after the Supreme Court rejected his request for retraction of the previous dismissal of his appeal.
- OCTOBER 8, 2018TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
USA - Tennessee. Supreme Court Tosses Lethal Injection Protest.
USA - Tennessee. Supreme Court Tosses Lethal Injection Protest.
- OCTOBER 8, 2018United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - President Trump demands death penalty for cop killers.
USA - President Trump demands death penalty for cop killers.
- OCTOBER 5, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE-MURDER OF MINOR GIRL
A court of Assam on October 4, 2018 awarded death penalty to a man for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old tribal girl.
OCTOBER 5, 2018IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: COURT SENTENCES CONVICT TO DEATH OVER EXPLODING RELIGIOUS SHRINE IN NINEVEH
An Iraqi court in Baghdad has sentenced a convict to death over exploding a religious shrine in Nineveh province, an official said on October 3, 2018.
OCTOBER 5, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 4 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR TRIPLE MURDER IN AJMER
The special ST/SC court judge Brij Madhuri Sharma on October 4, 2018 pronounced hang till death sentence on four men accused in the sensational triple murder in 2011 in Ajmer
- OCTOBER 5, 2018CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Death row inmate Jonathan Fajardo killed in prison.
USA - California. Death row inmate Jonathan Fajardo killed in prison.
- OCTOBER 4, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi national beheaded in Taef
4 October 2018: Turki bin Nasser bin Sharid al-Dosari executed for murder
OCTOBER 4, 2018IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING CANNABIS
The West Jakarta District Court handed down the death penalty on October 2, 2018 to Rizky Albar, 29, and Rocky Siahaan, 37, for their roles in smuggling 1.3 tons of cannabis
OCTOBER 4, 2018MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: BOYFRIEND, HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING HIS FIANCÉE
The First Court in Chumphon province on September 28, 2018 sentenced Ronnachai Panchart and his girlfriend, Naruemon Chuaysombat, to death after finding them guilty of involvement in killing the man’s fiancee.
OCTOBER 4, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FORMER SESSIONS JUDGE SIKANDAR LASHARI SENTENCED TO DEATH
An ATC in Karachi sentenced former Tharparkar district and session judge Sikandar Lashari to death on September 29, 2018.
- OCTOBER 3, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT COURT CANCELS DEATH, IMPRISONMENT SENTENCES FOR ‘RETURNEES FROM LIBYA’ CASE, ORDERS RETRIAL
Egypt’s Court of Cassation ruled on October 2, 2018 to accept the appeal filed by defendants in the “Returnees from Libya” case, cancelling their death and imprisonment sentences and ordering a retrial.
- OCTOBER 3, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MURDERER AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN ISLAMABAD
The District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) East Islamabad Choudhary Mumtaz Hussain has awarded death sentence to an accused involved in a murder case of Police Station Koral, Pakistan Point News reported on September 27, 2018.
OCTOBER 3, 2018GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: SECOND PROTOCOL TO ICCPR RATIFIED
Gambia has ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, on 28 September 2018
OCTOBER 3, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO LIFE TERM
The Jaipur high court on September 27, 2018 commuted the death sentence of Prasandeep alias Panna, accused in the murder of a businessman Ghan Shyam Agarwal in Behror, to life term
- OCTOBER 2, 2018YemenDEATH PENALTY
CONCERN OVER BAHAI' FOLLOWERS TRIAL BY YEMEN REBELS
Concerns are growing over the fate of more than 20 followers of the minority Baha'i faith in Yemen put on trial by the rebel Houthi movement.
- OCTOBER 2, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi national beheaded in Arar
2 October 2018: Hani Rabie Madhi al-Ruwaili executed for murder
OCTOBER 2, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: COURT HANDS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE TO EVICTEE WHO KILLED OFFICIAL
A court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi has handed a suspended death sentence to an elderly man convicted of the killing of a local official during the forced demolition of homes in his village, RFA reported on September 29, 2018.
- OCTOBER 2, 2018United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Clearance rates from "Crime in the United States, 2017"
USA - Clearance rates from "Crime in the United States, 2017"
OCTOBER 2, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT ORDERS RETRIAL OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER
An Egyptian court has ordered a retrial of the Muslim Brotherhood's leader Mohamed Badie and other senior figures from the banned group starting on Oct. 7, judicial sources and state news agency MENA said on September 30, 2018.
OCTOBER 2, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: A FEMALE JUVENILE OFFENDER AND FOUR MEN HANGED
Zeynab Sekanvand, a juvenile offender who was 17 years old when arrested for the murder of her husband, was executed on October 2, 2018 morning at Urmia prison along with four other prisoners.
- OCTOBER 1, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DRIVE AGAINST ECONOMIC CRIMES
Special courts set up in a drive against financial crime have sentenced three people to death in Iran, state television reported on September 30, 2018
OCTOBER 1, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: POLITICAL PRISONER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The Supreme Court in Iran accepted the death sentence of Arsalan Khodkam, a political prisoner, Iran Human Rights reported on September 26, 2018.
OCTOBER 1, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PROMINENT UYGHUR INTELLECTUAL GIVEN TWO-YEAR SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘SEPARATISM’
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have given a two-year suspended death sentence to a prominent Uyghur intellectual for exhibiting “separatist tendencies,” according to an official source, RFA reported on September
OCTOBER 1, 2018KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: AL SHABAAB YOUTHS GET STATE AMNESTY
The government offered on September 27, 2018 a three-month amnesty to youths in Northeastern who have joined al Shabaab to surrender.
- OCTOBER 1, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COAS CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE TO 11 HARDCORE TERRORISTS
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has confirmed death sentences awarded to eleven hardcore terrorists, timesofislamabad.com reported on September 28, 2018.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2018United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - More data available from "Crime in the United States, 2017" (CIUS).
USA - More data available from "Crime in the United States, 2017" (CIUS).