Chronological archive
April 2022
The 49 news items published by Hands Off Cain in April 2022, in chronological order.
USA - Oklahoma. Jury recommends death sentence for David Ware
APRIL 28, 2022ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: TWO POLICE OFFICERS TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING SUSPECT IN CUSTODY
Zambia High Court has sentenced two police officers to death by hanging for killing a suspect in custody, Zambia Daily Mail reported on 12 April 2022.
APRIL 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Annual Report on the Death Penalty - 2021
At least 333 people were executed in 2021
APRIL 27, 2022IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ‘TERRORIST’ SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DHI QAR
The Dhi Qar criminal court on 25 April 2022 issued a death sentence against a ‘terrorist’, a security source reported.
APRIL 27, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Timothy Wayne Fletcher sentenced to death
- APRIL 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fakhreddin Waledi and Hossein Joushan in executed in Isfahan on April 27
- APRIL 26, 2022DEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Death sentence of Robert Bloom reversed.
APRIL 26, 2022ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO KILLED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
A Thai man on 20 April 2022 was sentenced to death over the murder of a high school student in Trang province, southern Thailand, in 2018.
APRIL 26, 2022South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Executions Halted Amid Challenges to Constitutionality of Firing Squad and Electric Chair
APRIL 26, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Joe Biden grants clemency to 78 people
But no federal death row inmates
APRIL 25, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Melissa Lucio granted temporary stay of execution
But no clemency
APRIL 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi Sentenced to 16 Years Imprisonment
Earlier threats to sentence them to death
- APRIL 24, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: AMERICAN MURDER SUSPECT SENTENCED TO DEATH
Shadeed Abdulmateen, an American national, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide by the Intermediate People's Court of Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province on 21 April 2022.
- APRIL 21, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR ARABIAN RANCHES DOUBLE MURDER
A construction worker who stabbed an Indian couple to death in their bed was handed the death penalty by the Dubai Criminal Court on 20 April 2022.
APRIL 21, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Carl Wayne Buntion executed on April 21
APRIL 20, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KILLING OF SRI LANKAN
A Pakistan court on 18 April 2022 sentenced six people to death and nine others to life in prison after convicting them for their roles in last year’s vigilante killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused by workers of committing blasphemy.
APRIL 20, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING HIS MOTHER
The Court of Cassation upheld a Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a 42-year-old man to death after convicting him of murdering his mother in Amman, Jordan Times reported on 17 April 2022.
APRIL 18, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Richard Allen Johnson sentenced twice to life in prison
- APRIL 15, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Warren Hardy sentenced to death
APRIL 14, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. 19 out of 31 Senators call to stop Melissa Lucio's execution
APRIL 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death in Custody of Protester Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi
Iran Human Rights Calls for International Fact-Finding Mission
APRIL 13, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HUMAYUN AZAD MURDER CASE
A Dhaka court has sentenced four to death in the murder of Humayun Azad, the first known victim of a series of attacks by suspected militants in Bangladesh.
- 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 12, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: YOUNG WOMAN CONVICTED OF HUSBAND’S MURDER ESCAPES THE GALLOWS
A 22-year-old woman escaped the death penalty in Malaysia on 10 April 2022, when the Muar High Court ordered her to be jailed for a period until pardoned by the Sultan of Johor, after she was found guilty of killing her husband five years ago.
APRIL 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Mohammadi and Aliyeh Motallebzadeh Arrested
And Sent Back to Qarchak Prison
- APRIL 11, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER IN RAJSHAHI
A court in Bangladesh on 10 April 2022 handed down the death penalty to four people for the murder of a sweets shop assistant in Rajshahi's Tanore Upazila last year.
APRIL 11, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCE IN ASSAM FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF TWO TRIBAL GIRLS
Three persons were awarded death sentence on 8 April 2022 by a fast-track court in Assam for the rape and murder of two tribal girls last year.
- APRIL 11, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Wave of support for Melissa Lucio
The members of HoC have also signed the appeal
APRIL 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Golmohammad ... executed in the Prison of Karaj City on April 11
APRIL 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Jafari killed of torture in Tehran
During detention by Tehran intelligence police
APRIL 11, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson
First African-American Woman to Serve on U.S. Supreme Court
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- APRIL 10, 2022TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING GIRLFRIEND, TWIN SONS
Taiwan High Court’s Taichung Branch upheld on 29 March 2022 the death sentence for a man who killed his girlfriend and their two sons in November 2019.
- APRIL 10, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: PEOPLE’S COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR BANKER IN $18MN EMBEZZLEMENT CASE
The high-level People’s Court in Hanoi on 5 April 2022 upheld the death penalty handed down to the former director of a bank branch in Hai Phong City, northern Vietnam for embezzling VND414 billion (US$18.1 million).
APRIL 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3rd Public Execution Sentence In Less Than A Month
Name not disclosed
- APRIL 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Christian converts sentenced to prison and fines
APRIL 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmadreza Djalali Beaten by Evin Prison Officials
APRIL 8, 2022KentuckyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Kentucky. Governor signed HB 269 into law
Exempting severely mentally ill from capital punishment
APRIL 7, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: ISRAELI RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG POSSESSION
An Israeli woman was sentenced to death in a court in the United Arab Emirates on 5 April 2022 for possessing half a kilogram of cocaine.
- APRIL 6, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SURGEONS EXECUTED CHINESE PRISONERS FOR ORGANS, SAYS ANU STUDY
A new Australian study says it has unearthed evidence that surgeons in China have harvested the hearts of death row prisoners before they were medically brain-dead.
APRIL 6, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: SOUTH KOREAN GETS DEATH FOR MURDERING FELLOW CITIZEN IN HCMC
A HCMC court sentenced a South Korean man to death on 28 March 2022 for killing a woman while committing a robbery almost three years ago.
APRIL 6, 2022IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: TEACHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING 13 STUDENTS
An Indonesian teacher found guilty of raping 13 students at an Islamic boarding school, and who impregnated at least eight of the victims, was sentenced to death on 4 April 2022.
APRIL 6, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Samuel Randolph exonerated and released
187th person to be exonerated
APRIL 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 50 political prisoners await execution
A report from Javanehha
APRIL 5, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Brandon Sykes formally sentenced to death
- APRIL 4, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: MILITARY TRIBUNAL SENTENCES EIGHT MORE YOUTHS TO DEATH
A Myanmar military tribunal has handed down death sentences to eight more youths accused of attacking junta targets in Yangon, bringing the total number of those facing the death penalty since the coup to over 110.
APRIL 3, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 0.5 KG OF HEROIN
A court in Bangladesh on 31 March 2022 sentenced a woman caught with a 0.5 kg of heroin in Gaibandha in 2018 to death in a narcotics case.
APRIL 3, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN EXPAT EXECUTED OVER KIDNAPPING AND RAPING CHILD
The Saudi Ministry of Interior on 28 March 2022 announced in a statement the execution of an Egyptian expatriate who was sentenced to death over luring two children, kidnapping a female child, torturing and raping her.
APRIL 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javaid Rehman Mandate Extended for Another Year
Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
APRIL 1, 2022MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Marvin Rice sentenced to death
First death sentence in Missouri in nine years