Archive timeline
2020
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2020, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2020
FEBRUARY 26, 2020ColoradoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Colorado. Colorado Legislature Votes to Abolish Death Penalty.
USA - Colorado. Colorado Legislature Votes to Abolish Death Penalty.
FEBRUARY 26, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR, INCLUDING SON, SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TANGAIL FOR KILLING FATHER
Tangail Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-2 Judge Farhan Ferdous on 23 February 2020 sentenced four people to death over their involment in a murder.
FEBRUARY 26, 2020Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH, SEVEN TO JAIL IN IRAN SPYING CASE
A Saudi citizen was sentenced to death on 24 February 2020, with seven others facing years in jail on charges of treason and espionage on behalf of Iran, state television reported on 25 February.
- FEBRUARY 26, 2020FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Jury recommends death sentence for Marlin Joseph
USA - Florida. Jury recommends death sentence for Marlin Joseph
- FEBRUARY 26, 2020IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 prisoners, not identified, were reportedly hanged on February 26
IRAN - 2 prisoners, not identified, were reportedly hanged on February 26
- FEBRUARY 25, 2020DEATH PENALTY
TENNESSEE (USA): NICHOLAS SUTTON EXECUTED BY ELECTROCUTION
Tennessee executed by electrocution Nicholas Sutton on 20 February 2020, one day after Governor Bill Lee denied a petition for clemency that had been supported by 7 correctional officers, 5 jurors, and members of the victims’ families.
FEBRUARY 25, 2020NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: WIFE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HUSBAND IN KANO
A Kano State High Court on 21 February 2020 sentenced one Rashida Saidu to death by hanging for killing her husband, Adamu Ali.
FEBRUARY 25, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING THREE POLICEMEN
Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on 24 February 2020 awarded an accused six time death penalty and 74 years imprisonment.
FEBRUARY 25, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 8 EXECUTED IN ONE DAY
Eight men were executed on 24 February 2020 in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020.
- FEBRUARY 25, 2020FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. State Attorney Aramis Ayala will seek the death penalty against Anthony Todt
USA - Florida. State Attorney Aramis Ayala will seek the death penalty against Anthony Todt
- FEBRUARY 25, 2020United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Military. Army Judge Proposes 2022 Trial in Guantánamo’s Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Case
USA - Military. Army Judge Proposes 2022 Trial in Guantánamo’s Abd al-Rahim al-Nashirig Case
- FEBRUARY 25, 2020Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia sentences 1 to death, 7 to jail in Iran spying case.
SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia sentences 1 to death, 7 to jail in Iran spying case.
- FEBRUARY 25, 2020IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saudi Arabia sentences 1 to death, 7 to jail in Iran spying case.
IRAN - Saudi Arabia sentences 1 to death, 7 to jail in Iran spying case.
- FEBRUARY 24, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: EIGHT TERRORISTS WERE EXECUTED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE BOMBING OF THREE CHURCHES IN CAIRO, TANTA AND ALEXANDRIA
On February 24, 2020 it took place the execution of eight prisoners in Alexandria Prison.
FEBRUARY 24, 2020IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE NOVEMBER PROTESTERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced three people arrested in the heat of anti-government protests last November to death, Radio Farda reported on 23 February 2020.
FEBRUARY 24, 2020BotswanaDEATH PENALTYBOTSWANA: CONVICT EXECUTED DESPITE OUTCRY
Botswana has hanged a 29-year old man for murdering his employer, prison services announced on 21 February 2020, despite mounting calls by rights groups to abolish the death penalty.
FEBRUARY 24, 2020KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO LIFE TERM FOR RAPE CONVICTS
The Court of Cassation presided over by Judge Ahmad Al-Ajeel has commuted death sentence by hanging to life imprisonment for two security operatives affiliated to Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense respectively who were accused of kidnapping and
FEBRUARY 24, 2020VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR 10 DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN HANOI
Ten people involved in a drug ring had the death penalty upheld in a Hanoi court on 18 February 2020, according to Vietnam News.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2020CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. California Announces Pilot Program to Move Some Death-Row Prisoners Out of San Quentin.
USA - California. California Announces Pilot Program to Move Some Death-Row Prisoners Out of San Quentin.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: THREE PRISONERS WERE EXECUTED IN CAIRO APPEAL COURT FOR MURDER
On February 22, 2020 it took place the execution by hanging of three defendants at Cairo Appeal Court.
FEBRUARY 21, 2020NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES LAGOS PRINCE TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of an Ikeja High Court on 16 December 2019 sentenced to death, Prince Adewale Oyekan, the son of the late Oba of Lagos, Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, for the murder of Alhaja Sikirat Ekun, a 62-year-old businesswoman and a member of the Peo
FEBRUARY 21, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR SLAUGHTERING FIVE
An Additional Sessions Judge in Attock on 20 February 2020 handed a man death sentence on five counts for slaughtering five members of a family in Jatial village in Hazro on 14 June 2018.
FEBRUARY 21, 2020LebanonDEATH PENALTYLEBANON: DEATH SENTENCE OF RAPIST, MURDERER OVERTURNED
A judge in Lebanon’s highest court on 20 February 2020 overturned the death sentence of Tarek Houshieh, who was convicted of raping and murdering British embassy employee Rebecca Dykes in December 2017.
- FEBRUARY 21, 2020United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Justice Sotomayor writes a devastating rebuke of conservative colleagues’ callousness and fealty to Trump.
USA - Justice Sotomayor writes a devastating rebuke of conservative colleagues’ callousness and fealty to Trump.
- FEBRUARY 21, 2020IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi, and Mohammad Rajabi sentenced to death
IRAN - Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi, and Mohammad Rajabi sentenced to death
FEBRUARY 20, 2020IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: THREE MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING AND MURDERING A DALIT
Winding up the trial in little over a month, a special court in Telangana on 30 January 2020 sentenced three men to death for raping and murdering a Dalit woman last year. The court also imposed a total fine of Rs 26,000 on them.
FEBRUARY 20, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE 2014 WAGAH BORDER ATTACKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A special Lahore anti-terrorism court on 19 February 2020 sentenced three men to death for the 2014 suicide attack at the Wagah Border. Over 50 people were killed and 100 injured in the attack.
FEBRUARY 20, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: NOTORIOUS GANG LEADER EXECUTED
Sun Xiaoguo, a notorious culprit of multiple high-profile crimes in China, was executed on 20 February 2020 in south-west China's Yunnan province.
FEBRUARY 20, 2020TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Tennessee Has Electrocuted Nicholas Sutton.
USA - Tennessee. Tennessee Has Electrocuted Nicholas Sutton.
- FEBRUARY 20, 2020South DakotaDEATH PENALTY
USA - South Dakota. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected SB 64 to prohibit the death penalty against severely mentally ill.
USA - South Dakota. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected SB 64 to prohibit the death penalty against severely mentally ill.