Chronological archive
August 2022
The 58 news items published by Hands Off Cain in August 2022, in chronological order.
IRAN - Mohammed Hossein Kahrari executed in Arak on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Teymoori and Mohammad-Hassan Kahrari executed in Arak on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aref Maleki executed in Shiraz on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: JUDGE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING JOURNALIST WIFE
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a judge to death on 16 August 2022 for the murder of his wife, in what is one of the most high-profile murder cases in the country in recent months.
AUGUST 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh was actually a minor
AUGUST 31, 2022Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The Higher Crime Committee in the Gaza Strip on 25 August 2022 issued a death sentence against (‘A. Sh.), from Gaza City, after he was convicted of premeditated murder of (‘A. ‘A) in a family dispute that took place on 3 March 2021.
AUGUST 31, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. California Passes Legislation that will reduce death row
AUGUST 30, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF ISIS TERRORISTS IN PUNTLAND
Four ISIS members failed to have their death sentence overturned in the Appeals Court in the Puntland state of Somalia, GAROWE ONLINE reported on 19 August 2022.
AUGUST 30, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: U.S. CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER LOSES APPEAL
A U.S. citizen sentenced to death by a Chinese court for "intentional homicide" of his former girlfriend lost his appeal on 25 August 2022, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
AUGUST 29, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR KILLING WOMAN IN MAADI
After 20 months since the court ruling, the death sentence was carried out on 11 August 2022 for two men who were found guilty of the killing of a 24-year-old woman, Maryam Mohamed, in Cairo’s Maadi.
AUGUST 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Bargrizan executed in Bandar Abbas on August 28
AUGUST 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Sabki executed in Bandar Abbas on August 28
AUGUST 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 executions in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz on August 28
Rahim Qanbarzahi (Ghanbarzehi) and Mujtabi Khadmini Nejad (Khademinejad)
AUGUST 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamreza Kazemi e Reza Zahmati giustiziati a Zabol il 27 agosto
AUGUST 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Omid Ali Garavand executed in Khorramabad on August 27
413 esecuzioni in Iran dall'inizio dell'anno
AUGUST 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in a Tehran prison
AUGUST 25, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. James Coddington, now 50, White, was executed
10th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA
AUGUST 25, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Judge Chris Comer sentenced Warren Hardy to death
AUGUST 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Saroni executed in the last days of August in Gonbad-e Kavus
AUGUST 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On August 24 five men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison
AUGUST 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Karami executed in Neishabur Prison on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2022IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Supreme Court overturns Pizzuto's clemency
AUGUST 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men and 1 woman executed in Shiraz on August 22
141st woman executed in Iran since summer of 2013
AUGUST 23, 2022OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Court overturns Odraye Jones' death sentence
AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolfazl Sharifi executed in Qazvin on August 22
AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Kamali executed in Dastgerd prison on 22 August
- AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moein Atashbar executed in Saravan on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Brahui executed in Iranshahr on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Zahedan on August 20
One, Omid Alizahi, was a juvenile offender
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Piri executed in Zabol on August 20
AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 18
Saeed Kashani, Khodarahm Narouyi, Hamid Narouyi, Seyed Abbas Mousavi and Amir Ali Shahiki
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AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 11 prisoners executed in Arak prison
On August 14, 17, and 18, 2022
- AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 18
Amir Shahiki, Abbas Mousavi, Hamid Narooie, Khodarahm Narooie, and Saeed Kashani
AUGUST 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohiyedin Damani executed in Birjand on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Kosoul Chanthakoummane, 41, executed
- AUGUST 16, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Death sentences lowered for James N. Blair and Anderson Hawthorne
To life without parole, at DA’s request
- AUGUST 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Misagh Yavari executed in Khorramabad on August 15
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Rahmani and Mostafa Rasoulzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 14
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Saeed Narouyi xecuted in Sari on August 14
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 inmates executed in Arak Prison on August 14
Mohammad Mashhadolkoobeh, Vahid Mousakhani, Hossein Abadi and 1 unknown
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Alizadeh executed in Qom on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Bagherpour-Sarabi e Milad Badarkhani executed in Saveh on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Probable Juvenile Offender executed in Qom on August 10
Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 inmates executed in Arak on August 10, 2022
One of the inmates identified as Mehdi Noor-Karami
AUGUST 8, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Ronald Prible’s death sentence restored
AUGUST 7, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Clinton Lee Young, released from death row in January, arrested again
AUGUST 6, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: ANOTHER DOUBLE DAWN HANGING CARRIED OUT
Two more death row inmates were hanged at dawn on 5 August 2022 for drug trafficking in a double execution at Singapore's Changi Prison, after the inmates waited 10 hours until past midnight to learn if their appeal in court would succeed.
AUGUST 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Ghareh Lar and Mojtaba Ramin executed in Qom
On August 1 and 6
- AUGUST 5, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Derrick Dearman has four of ten capital murder convictions thrown out
AUGUST 4, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX MEMBERS OF 'RAZAKAR BAHINI' SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING THE 1971 LIBERATION WAR
Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal on 28 July 2022 sentenced six members of the paramilitary force 'Razakar Bahini' to death for collaborating with the Pakistani Army for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 Liberation War.
AUGUST 4, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, on 1st August 2022, sentenced two kidnappers, 41 years old Kola Makinde, and 30 years old Haruna Bika, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
AUGUST 3, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAB MILITANTS EXECUTE 7 BY FIRING SQUAD
Somali-based militant group al-Shabab on 30 July 2022 executed seven men, including a soldier, in Somalia’s southwestern region of Bay.
AUGUST 3, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. William Glenn Rogers' death sentence overturned
AUGUST 3, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DRIVER WHO KILLED BUSINESSMAN, 6 OF HIS FAMILY IN GHAZIABAD GETS DEATH SENTENCE
Describing the nature of the crime as "rarest of rare", a Ghaziabad court on 1st August 2022 handed the death sentence to a 30-year-old man for stabbing to death his former employer and six members of his family in 2013, reports Shafaque Alam.
- AUGUST 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 awaiting execution of blinding sentence
One woman and two men
AUGUST 2, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY GUJARAT COURT FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR GIRL
A 31-year-old man was sentenced to death by a special court in Gujarat on 26 July 2022 for kidnapping, raping and murdering a minor girl, a verdict coming less than four months after the offence was committed.
- AUGUST 1, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN COURT WANTS KILLER EXECUTED ON LIVE TV
An Egyptian court has called for the execution of a young man to be broadcast live. The condemned was convicting of stabbing his classmate at Mansoura University to death.
AUGUST 1, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES 4 TO DEATH OVER MURDER OF EKITI CHIEF
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced four men to death by hanging over the murder of a traditional chief, Punch reported on 26 July 2022.