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
NOVEMBER 30, 2020North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: TWO PEOPLE EXECUTED, SEOUL’S SPY AGENCY DAYS
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered at least two people executed, banned fishing at sea and locked down the capital, Pyongyang.
NOVEMBER 30, 2020IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political Prisoner Hamed Ghara Oghlani Sentenced to Death
IRAN - Political Prisoner Hamed Ghara Oghlani Sentenced to Death
NOVEMBER 30, 2020SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: THREE AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS EXECUTED OVER KILLINGS
Three al-Shabaab lieutenants were on 29 November 2020 morning executed by firing squad ordered by a military court-martial.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2020TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
USA - Tennessee. The annulment of the death sentence of Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman was overturned
USA - Tennessee. The annulment of the death sentence of Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman was overturned
- NOVEMBER 29, 2020DEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo sentenced Marlin Joseph to death.
USA - Florida. Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo sentenced Marlin Joseph to death.
NOVEMBER 29, 2020SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOMALILAND EXECUTES SIX INMATES CONVICTED OF KILLINGS
Somaliland security forces on 26 November 2020 executed six inmates by firing squad after being convicted of committed deliberate killings.
NOVEMBER 29, 2020VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DRUG-RELATED CRIMES
Five Vietnamese men on 27 November 2020 were sentenced to death for illicitly selling and transporting drugs.
NOVEMBER 29, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING OF 24-YEAR-OLD MARYAM
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two men to death for the killing of a 24-year-old woman earlier this year in Cairo’s Maadi, Egyptian Streets reported on 26 November 2020.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2020IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A trial against 4 Iranians accused of terrorism began in Belgium.
IRAN - A trial against 4 Iranians accused of terrorism began in Belgium.
- NOVEMBER 26, 2020FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Thomas Fletcher sentenced to death
USA - Florida. Thomas Fletcher sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 26, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: HEBEI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 4 RAPES, 3 MURDERS
Wang Shujin, a man from Hebei province, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide by the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Hebei on 24 November 2020 after a retrial.
NOVEMBER 26, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2019 RAPE, MURDER IN SHARIATPUR
A Shariatpur tribunal has sentenced three people to death for the 2019 murder of a housewife after gang-rape in Damudya Upazila.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2020IranDEATH PENALTY
LETTER TO EU BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: SAVE AHMADREZA DJALALI
In a joint letter to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, ten international rights organizations demand immediate action to save the life of Ahmadreza Djalali.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2020United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - The Trump administration is trying to bring back firing squads and electrocutions
USA - The Trump administration is trying to bring back firing squads and electrocutions
NOVEMBER 25, 2020NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN EKITI FOR ROBBERY
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on 24 November 2020 sentenced two persons, Adekunle Osho, 31, and Chinedu Ugwu, 34, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
NOVEMBER 25, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO ACCUSED IN CHILD ABUSE CASE
A court in Rawalpindi on 23 November 2020 awarded death penalty to convict Qari Abdul Hai for sodomizing and murdering a seven-year-old boy in a village of Fateh Jhang.
NOVEMBER 25, 2020TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Geronimo Gutierrez death sentence commuted becouse of intellectual disability
USA - Texas. Geronimo Gutierrez death sentence commuted becouse of intellectual disability
- NOVEMBER 24, 2020DEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS: 3RD COMMITTEE CONDEMNS IRAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on 18 November 2020 sent seven draft resolutions to the General Assembly, five of which were focused on country-specific situations and subject to heated debate.
NOVEMBER 24, 2020NorwayDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: THE EXECUTION OF NORWEGIAN CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOMALILAND HAS BEEN POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
Only hours before the 54-year-old Norwegian citizen Saad Jidre sentenced to death was to be executed in Somaliland, he was informed that it had been postponed.
NOVEMBER 24, 2020IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Appeal against the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, a scientist who also worked in Italy.
IRAN - Appeal against the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, a scientist who also worked in Italy.
NOVEMBER 24, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PHC COMMUTES CONVICT’S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IN PRISON
The Peshawar High Court on 19 November 2020 commuted the death sentence of the man convicted for the 2017 lynching of university student Mashal Khan, converting it to life imprisonment.
NOVEMBER 24, 2020United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gallup Poll: Public Support for the Death Penalty Lowest in a Half-Century.
USA - Gallup Poll: Public Support for the Death Penalty Lowest in a Half-Century.
NOVEMBER 23, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COP AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR 2018 FAKE ENCOUNTER IN KARACHI
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on 21 November 2020 sentenced a Sindh police officer to death in a case pertaining to the killing of a citizen in a dubious encounter in 2018.
NOVEMBER 23, 2020AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BACKS DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD ABDUCTION
Offenders convicted of child abduction in Algeria could be sentenced to death under a new bill approved by the National Assembly, MEMO reported on 19 November 2020.
NOVEMBER 23, 2020KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: KUWAITI CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal submitted by the Kuwaiti citizen “Abdulaziz U.” who was accused of killing the policeman Turki Al-Anzi by running into him at the Dasman roundabout during the National Day celebrations in 2016, Al-Anba daily repo
NOVEMBER 23, 2020United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Kim Kardashian visits death row inmate Julius Jones.
USA - Oklahoma. Kim Kardashian visits death row inmate Julius Jones.
NOVEMBER 23, 2020IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kylie Moore-Gilbert freed in a swap for three Iranians jailed in Thailand.
IRAN - Kylie Moore-Gilbert freed in a swap for three Iranians jailed in Thailand.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2020DEATH PENALTY
USA: ORLANDO HALL EXECUTED AT THE FEDERAL PRISON COMPLEX IN TERRE HAUTE
Orlando Hall was executed on 19 November 2020 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
NOVEMBER 21, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ‘HABITUAL’ PAEDOPHILE SOHAIL AYAZ SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Rawalpindi trial court on 18 November 2020 sentenced ‘habitual’ paedophile Sohail Ayaz to death on three counts apart from awarding him three sentences of rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping young boys and for recording and disseminating the
NOVEMBER 21, 2020NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING SON FOR RITUAL PURPOSE IN ADAMAWA
A high court in Adamawa State sentenced a man to death for killing his son, the Daily Post reported on 19 November 2020.