Chronological archive
May 2022
The 98 news items published by Hands Off Cain in May 2022, in chronological order.
USA - Pennsylvania. Judge Edward Guido formally sentenced Davone Anderson to death on May 31, 2022
MAY 31, 2022IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: COURT SENTENCES ISIS PLOTTER OF 2021 BAGHDAD MARKET BOMBING TO DEATH
An Iraqi court on 30 May 2022 sentenced to death an ISIS group member convicted of plotting a 2021 bomb attack that killed 32 people in a crowded Baghdad market.
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Allah Nazar Esmailzehi executed in Damghan Prison on May 31
183 executions in 2022
MAY 31, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TWO EKITI MEN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR ROBBING 53-YEAR-OLD LECTURER
An Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced 36-year-old Fakorede Olawale and 39-year-old Tunji Olaitan to death for armed robbery, Punch reported on 31 May 2022.
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Faraji executed in Isfahan on May 31
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Latifi executed in Kermanshah on May 31
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Amiri-Margavi executed in Sari Prison on May 31
The news was released on July 5 by IHR
- MAY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Saveh
Exact place and date of execution unknown
MAY 30, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE
A 52-year-old Nigerian man, Nkereuwem Etim Emah, on 27 May 2022 was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of his pregnant wife.
- MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Sarhadi executed in Isfahan on May 29
- MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahab … executed in Mashhad Central Prison on May 29
MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on May 29
MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Hassanlou executed in Zanjan on May 29
MAY 28, 2022Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: SOLDIERS, CIVILIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SELLING ARMS
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death eight soldiers and three civilians for selling arms to a violent rebel group.
MAY 28, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: AN ETHIOPIAN IS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN INDIAN COLLEAGUE
The Ethiopian woman who stabbed her Indian colleague to death has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeals, Kuwaitlocal reported on 27 May 2022.
MAY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidollah Sahrai executed in Chabahar on May 28
MAY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Gorgij executed in Zabol Prison on May 28
179 executions since the beginning of the year
- MAY 26, 2022JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: LIFE SENTENCE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DEATH PENALTY – CHANG
While not ruling out a return to the death penalty, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says imposing a life sentence will be more effective in the drive towards eradicating crimes and criminality in the society.
MAY 26, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 3 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SISTER IN HARIDWAR
Three members of the same family were awarded the death penalty by an Additional District and Sessions Court in Haridwar (Uttarakhand) on 20 May 2022, for murdering their sister.
- MAY 25, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Autopsy Reports: Recently Executed Oklahoma Prisoners Had Fluid in Lungs
- MAY 25, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Steven Butler resentenced to life
On claims of intellectual disability
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ladan Molasaeedi, a woman, executed in Qarchak on May 25
Fifth woman to be executed in 2022
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on May 25
Karim Bagheri, the football player, saved 2 men
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - R.A. executed on May 25
Location of the execution not specified
MAY 25, 2022ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES 'BIG DECISION' TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on 24 May 2022 announced he is making moves to abolish the death penalty in the country.
MAY 25, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Juan Segundo ineligible for death penalty
MAY 25, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SPECIAL CBI COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO MAIN ACCUSED SURINDER KOLI IN NITHARI CASE
The main accused in the Nithari killings, Surinder Koli, on 19 May 2022 was awarded the death penalty by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad.
- MAY 24, 2022DEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY 2021: STATE-SANCTIONED KILLINGS RISE AS EXECUTIONS SPIKE IN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA
2021 saw a worrying rise in executions and death sentences as some of the world’s most prolific executioners returned to business as usual and courts were unshackled from Covid-19 restrictions, Amnesty International said on 24 May 2022 in its annual revie
- MAY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Wife of Djalali pleads for EU action
Vida Mehrannia
MAY 24, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UP GANGSTERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SENSATIONAL NIA OFFICER, WIFE'S MURDER
A court in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district on 20 May 2022 sentenced two gangsters to death for murdering an NIA officer and his wife six years ago.
MAY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Gorgan Prison on 24 May 2022
Mostafa Hamidzadeh, Houshang Bagheri Alimorad (surname unknown) and Nasser Moghadam
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- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Sorkhrou and Abbas Kamali executed in Minab on May 23
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mossadegh Malahi executed in Minab on May 23
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed on 23 May in Amol prison
135th since September 2013
MAY 23, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DANISH MAN SENTENCED TO DIE FOR KILLING WIFE, DAUGHTER
A Nigerian court on 20 May 2022 sentenced a Danish man to death after finding him guilty of killing his wife, a Nigerian, and his 3-year-old daughter at their residence in the West African country in 2018.
MAY 23, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 1971 WAR CRIMES IN MOULVIBAZAR
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced three people to death for murder, rape and other crimes against humanity in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha during the 1971 Liberation War, bdnews24 reported on 19 May 2022.
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Zanjan on May 23
MAY 23, 2022ArkansasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arkansas. No execution for mentally disabled Alvin Jackson
The U.S. Supreme Court rules
MAY 23, 2022MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Marvin Rice sentenced to life without parole
Judge Daniel Pelikan rejects jury's recommendation for death
- MAY 22, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: DEATH SENTENCE HANDED DOWN FOR PRIEST’S MURDER
An Egyptian court on 18 May 2022 sentenced to death a man accused of the murder last month of a Coptic priest in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, judicial sources said.
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolbari Rigi, and Ms Hayati, a woman, executed in Shiraz on May 22
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Morad Fazeli executed in Shirvan Prison on May 22
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Elias Q. executed in Mashhad Prison on May 22
176 executions since the beginning of the year
- MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on May 21
- MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on the prison situation
MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The wife of Ahmadreza Djalali called on the European Union to intervene
MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdollah Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on May 21
- MAY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Gashoul executed in Isfahan on May 19
- MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ayat Ghasemi-Delfani executed in Karaj on May 18
- MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshad Nematzadeh, Mehdi Shirchian and Eshaghi executed in Amol on May 18
MAY 18, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TODDLER IN CHITTAGONG
A Chittagong court on 18 May 2022 sentenced three people to death for killing a two-year-old boy in 2020.
MAY 18, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: PRIVY COUNCIL RULES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY CONSTITUTIONAL
The Privy Council has ruled that the mandatory sentence of death for murder in Trinidad and Tobago is constitutional, and only Parliament can reform and update the laws.
MAY 18, 2022BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: PRESIDENT LUKASHENKO CHANGES DEATH PENALTY LAW TO TARGET OPPOSITION
Belarus has introduced the death penalty for planning an attack or "attempting an act of terrorism", according to a decree issued on 18 May 2022 — charges that target many opposition activists.
MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fardin Kaleh Houyi executed in Kermanshah on May 18
The news was released on June 21 by Hengaw
- MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khalil Rezaeipour executed in Qom on May 17
- MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghobad Khodakarami executed in Khorramabad on May 17
- MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Djalali
MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghobad Narouyi executed in Birjand on May 17
MAY 17, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: EX-ARMY CHIEF'S ALLY SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ‘TREASON’
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of “high treason”, the French-language daily El Watan reported on 15 May 2022.
- MAY 16, 2022TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS URGE TAIWAN TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
An international panel of human rights experts on 13 May 2022 called on Taiwan to end the "cruel and degrading" practice of capital punishment.
- MAY 15, 2022Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DR CONGO: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FLORIBERT CHEBEYA
A Congolese military court on 11 May 2022 sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya, which caused national outrage.
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- MAY 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrab Salehi executed in Yazd on May 15
Probably a juvenile at the time of the alleged crime
- MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshad Gamshadzehi, Esmail Jahantigh and Mansour Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on May 14
Farshad Gamshadzehi may have been a juvenile offender
MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Bameri executed in Iranshahr on May 14
The man was unable to pay the €23.000 diya (reparation)
MAY 14, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Davone Anderson sentenced to death
- MAY 13, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Everett Miller formally sentenced to death
- MAY 13, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. David Ware sentenced to death
- MAY 12, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE, MURDER BY BIHAR COURT
A court in Bihar’s Supaul on 11 May 2022 sentenced to death four persons convicted in a 2019 gang rape and murder case.
- MAY 12, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FENIL GOYANI SENTENCED TO DEATH IN GRISHMA VEKARIYA MURDER CASE
The Surat sessions court on 5 May 2022 awarded death sentence to Fenil Goyani (20) for the murder of 21-year-old college student Grishma Vekariya outside her house at Pasodara area of Surat in February.
MAY 12, 2022BotswanaDEATH PENALTYBOTSWANA: HERDER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WOMAN'S HACKING
A 27-year-old man of Sefhophe village was on 11 May 2022 sentenced to death for hacking the wife of his employer to death with an axe.
MAY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Fartash executed in Isfahan on May 12
143 executions in 2022
MAY 11, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Clarence Dixon was executed
At the state prison in Florence on May 11
MAY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kh. executed in Mashhad on May 11
- MAY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Sabzevar Prison on May 10
138 executions in 2022
- MAY 10, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Davone Anderson sentenced to death
On May 10
MAY 10, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR FATHER’S MURDER
The Court of Cassation has upheld a December Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after convicting him of murdering his father in Amman in December 2019, Jordan times reported on 7 May 2022.
- MAY 10, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgian Court of Appeals’ Sentence on Bomb Plot at Iranian Resistance Rally in Paris
MAY 9, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND ALONGSIDE FAMILY PASTOR IS RELEASED FROM PRISON
A woman jailed for killing her husband has been released from prison in Benin city, Edo state, after a landmark ruling at the Supreme Court, Standard Gazette reported on 6 May 2022.
- MAY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Europe must make the serious consequences of executing Ahmadreza Djalali clear
To Islamic Republic officials
- MAY 8, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF MONARCH IN EKITI
Justice Olukayode Ogundana of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on 5 May 2022 sentenced a 42-year-old man, Ademola Omoniyi to death by hanging for the murder of a traditional ruler in the state.
MAY 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Shiraz on May 8
Abbas Pajmordeh, Ali Pajmordeh, Mohammad Gholamhosseini and Ali Hossein Pahan
- MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 Men and a Woman Executed in Zahedan on May 7
The number of women executed in Iran since the summer of 2013 reaches 132
MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Naderi and Abolfazl Hassan Moradi Executed in Qom on May 7
MAY 5, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY TO 20-YEAR JAIL IN MINOR’S RAPE-MURDER CASE
The Supreme Court on 19 April 2022 commuted the death sentence of a man, who had sexually assaulted and killed a four-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh in April 2013, to 20-year imprisonment.
MAY 5, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Gov. Doug Ducey says his pro-life stance applies to abortions, not the death penalty
MAY 4, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: SENATE OUTLAWS RANSOM PAYMENTS, SETS DEATH PENALTY FOR ABDUCTIONS
Nigeria's Senate on 27 April 2022 passed a bill imposing jail terms of at least 15 years for paying a ransom to free someone who has been kidnapped...
MAY 4, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: TWO CHINESE GET DEATH FOR METH PRODUCTION
A court in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum sentenced two Chinese men to death on 16 April 2022 for running an operation producing over 11kg of methamphetamine.
- MAY 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Ahmadreza Djalali at Imminent Risk of Execution
The international community should react in time
MAY 3, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 1 TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR 2015 DOUBLE MURDER
Five people were sentenced to death and one to life imprisonment on 25 April 2022 in the state of Uttar Pradesh, for murdering two persons over a land dispute in Aligarh, in 2015.
MAY 3, 2022MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Carman Deck was executed
by lethal injection in Bonne Terre on Maiy 3
MAY 3, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BOMBAY HIGH COURT PERMITS 2 CONVICTS ON DEATH ROW TO PURSUE STUDIES WHILE IN PRISON
The Bombay High Court permitted 2 convicts sentenced to death in 2017 for raping and killing a minor girl to pursue their studies through open university while in prison.
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- MAY 2, 2022BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: LOWER HOUSE APPROVE IMPOSITION OF DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISM
The lower house of the Belarusian parliament has approved Criminal Code amendments that introduce tougher punishments, ranging to the death penalty, for terrorism.
- MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Top official on women’s affairs encourages child marriage
Ensieh Khazali
- MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Iran summoned Sweden’s ambassador
following a request by Swedish prosecutors for life imprisonment for Hamid Noury
MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Kargardastjerdi, a special woman
She saved 32 men from the gallows
MAY 2, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Gov. Bill Lee suspends all 2022 executions
- MAY 1, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: MAN RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SISTER, STEALING PARENTS’ MONEY
A man from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region on 12 April 2022 was condemned to death for murdering his elder sister and stealing their parents’ money last year.
- MAY 1, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MALAYSIAN NAGAENTHRAN EXECUTED ON DRUGS CHARGES
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a Malaysian with learning disabilities who was convicted of drug trafficking in 2010 and whose case attracted global attention, has been executed in Singapore’s Changi prison.