Chronological archive
September 2022
The 78 news items published by Hands Off Cain in September 2022, in chronological order.
USA - Report: Black People 7.5 Times More Likely to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder than Whites
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SC ACQUITS DEATH ROW CONVICT FOR RAPE, MURDER, CRITICIZES LOWER COURTS FOR LACK OF SCRUTINY
"Court cannot make someone a victim of injustice to compensate for the injustice to the victim of a crime", the Supreme Court on 28 September 2022 said while acquitting a death row convict for the alleged rape and murder of a six-year-old.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: OFFICIAL GETS DEATH FOR CORRUPTION INVOLVING 3B YUAN
Li Jianping, a former senior Party official in the economic and technological development zone in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was sentenced to death for multiple crimes on 27 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: ZAMFARA GOVERNOR MATAWALLE, ‘BANDITS DESERVE DEATH PENALTY’
Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara, has justified the death penalty approved for anyone convicted of banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling, or cultism in the state.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasem Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on September 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Governor signs laws that will reduce death row
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kiomars Parvaneh and Hasan Hojjati executed in Qazvin on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Brahui executed in Zahedan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMES TRIBUNAL SENTENCES KHALILUR TO DEATH
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on September 13, 2022 sentenced Mohammad Khalilur Rahman from Durgapur Upazilla of Netrakona to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 2-YR-OLD AFTER ABDUCTION IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on September 27, 2022 sentenced a man to death in a case filed for killing a two-year-old boy after an abduction.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN JANJGIR CHAMPA
A court in Chhattisgarh's Janjgir Champa district on 19 September 2022 sentenced two persons to death for the murder of a gram panchayat member in 2021.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: 34-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
Cape Coast High Court in the Central Region of Ghana has sentenced a 34-year-old man to death by hanging for murder, Ghana Web reported on 20 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
Peshawar Child Protection Court (CPC) has awarded death sentence to a man who brutally killed a seven-year-old girl and a woman in tehsil Shabqadar, district Charsadda, sources said on 25 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 4 MILITANTS IN JAPANESE NATIONAL KUNIO HOSHI'S MUDER
The High Court has affirmed the death sentences for four militants of the outlawed Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, or JMB, for the murder of a Japanese national in Rangpur in 2015.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 76 protesters killed by security forces
On the 11th day of unrest after the killing of the young Masha Amini
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING AND KILLING A JOB-SEEKER
Akwa Ibom State High Court, sitting in Uyo, on 4 August 2022 sentenced to death Uduak-Abasi Akpan for the murder of jobseeker Iniubong Umoren.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: EX-VICE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
Sun Lijun, former Chinese vice minister of public security, on 23 September 2022 was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking more than 646 million yuan of bribes, manipulating the stock market, and illegally possessing firearms, according t
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 54 protesters killed by security forces
8th day of protests for Mahsa Amini
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
JAPAN TO STOP MYANMAR MILITARY TRAINING OVER JUNTA’S EXECUTION OF ACTIVISTS
Japan’s defense ministry said on 22 September 2022 it will halt training for members of Myanmar’s military from next year over the junta’s executions of pro-democracy activists.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Alan Miller's execution was suspended after 2 hours of trying
Due to difficulties in finding the vein
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER SENIOR OFFICIAL FU ZHENGHUA SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
Former senior official Fu Zhenghua on 22 September 2022 was sentenced to
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING SIX OF FAMILY IN RAJASTHAN
A court in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara on 6 August 2022 sentenced to death two men for murdering a couple and their four children in the district seven years ago.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 31 protesters killed by security forces
Nationwide protests for Mahsa Amini
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO ARRANGED GIRLFRIEND'S MURDER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, who lured his girlfriend to faraway Yunnan province and then asked two accomplices to kill her, was sentenced to death in Kunming, Yunnan on 20 September 2022.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2022Equatorial GuineaDEATH PENALTY
EQUATORIAL GUINEA ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, state TV announced on 19 September 2022 citing a new law signed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MOTHER, LOVER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KILLING CHILDREN
A 26-year-old woman and her lover on 17 September 2022 were both sentenced to death by hanging in Egypt after being found guilty of killing her three children and attempting the murder of her husband, local media reported.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POISONING HER OWN CHILDREN
Thailand’s Criminal Court sentenced a woman to death on 15 September 2022 after finding her guilty of poisoning her own 2-year-old son and 4-year-old adopted daughter with an abrasive substance, to make them sick so she could appeal to the public for dona
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sirus Sha’alani executed in Karaj on September 19
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: DEATH ROW INMATE DANG VAN HIEN GETS REDUCED SENTENCE
Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has commuted the death sentence of Dang Van Hien and reduced it to life in prison, Hien’s wife, Mai Thi Khuyen, told RFA on 15 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahsa Amini passed away in hospital today
A 22-year-old woman arrested by the Guidance Patrol on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2022LibyaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYAN CONVERT SENTENCED TO DEATH UNDER CONTROVERSIAL APOSTASY LAW
Libyan authorities sentenced an unidentified young man to death, according to Middle East Concern, based on a loophole in an apostasy law.
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
The Sindh High Court (SHC), while partially rejecting the appeal of three murder convicts on 14 September 2022, commuted their death sentence into life-imprisonment.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE ALTERNATIVES TO DEATH PENALTY
The Malaysian government has decided to replace the mandatory death penalty with other types of punishment for a number of offences, said the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar on 14 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: PASTOR, 1 OTHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BOY, BURYING HEAD ON ALTAR
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on 9 August 2022 sentenced one Pastor Erinmole Adetokunbo and one Adedoyin Oyekanmi to death for killing a seven-year-old boy for ritual.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH FOR MURDER IN BRAHMANBARIA
A Brahmanbaria court on 12 September 2022 sentenced three people to death and jailed another for life over the murder of Sharif Khan, a native of Akhaura's Chanpur village, in 2015.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: POPULAR TRADITIONAL WRESTLER TO DIE BY HANGING AFTER POUNDING WIFE TO DEATH
A high court sitting in Adamawa state on 16 August 2022 convicted and sentenced popular traditional wrestler, Thankyou Grim, to death by hanging for using pestle to kill his wife in 2018 in Adamawa State.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2013 MURDER IN CHANDPUR
Four men were sentenced to death on 23 August 2022 for the murder of a woman in Chandpur’s Matlab South Upazila in 2013.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Hemat Estaki and an unidentified man executed in Daran Prison
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmed Panahi Khanqa executed in Ardabil on September 12
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MUFTI APPROVES EXECUTION OF JUDGE WHO KILLED TELEVISION PRESENTER WIFE
Egypt’s Grand Mufti approved the execution of Judge Ayman Haggag and an associate who were convicted of murdering Haggag’s television presenter wife, government-owned newspaper al-Ahram reported on 11 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER
A man who was found guilty for rape and killing his sister-in-law was on 10 August 2022 sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Agha Mohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Noormohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Aghosh executed in Zanjan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men and 1 woman executed in Zahedan on September 10
142nd woman to be executed in 9 years
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Brahui executed in Birjand on September 10
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: TWO RECEIVE DEATH FOR THROWING DRUG-FUELED PARTIES AT HANOI MENTAL HOSPITAL
Two people in Hanoi were sentenced to death on 31 August 2022 after throwing drug-related parties and selling/storing narcotics inside a mental hospital.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING TEENAGER IN KHULNA
A Khulna tribunal on 7 September 2022 sentenced five persons to death in addition to fining Tk20,000 to each for raping a teenage girl in Khalishpur of the district in 2011.
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALILAND: 4 GET EXECUTED FOR HOMICIDES, 1 CHEATS DEATH
Somaliland government on 6 September 2022 executed four who had been convicted of wanton killing earlier.
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Allah Nour Salarzehi executed in Minab Prison on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ramezan Jafarzadeh and Mohammad Mohammadi-Ghaed executed in Shiraz on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed at an undisclosed prison on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 82-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH 12 WIVES, 60 CHILDREN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN AKWA IBOM
An 82-year-old Village Head of Efen Ibom, Ika Local Government Area Akwa Ibom State, Chief Essien Matthew Odiong has been sentenced to death by hanging for murder, Idomavoice reported on 13 August 2022.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 JMB MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on 17 August 2022 sentenced five Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants to death in a case filed for bombings at two mosques inside Bangladesh Navy’s Issa Khan Base in Chattogram in 2015.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafour Nejatpour executed in Gonbad Kavous on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed in Gohardasht on September 7
3 identified as Abolfazl Shahi, Mohammad Arab and Khosro Nourbakhsh
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yar Mohammad Eshaghzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NARCOTIC TRANSPORTATION
The People’s Court in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on 3 August 2022 sentenced seven people to death for illegally transporting over 45 kilograms of narcotics in 2020.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Tabriz in the last days
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 men executed in Minab Prison on September 6
Abdolkhalegh Narouyi, Soleiman Narouyi, Abdolghafour Bahadorzadeh-Rigi, Abbas Nobakht, Mohammad Zobeiri, Mohammad Kazemi and Mohammadreza Hedayati
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Haghverdizadeh and Khalghollah Fahimzadeh executed in Taybad on September 6
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- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Peyman Soleimani, Aziz Yarhashemi and Shahram Kakavand executed in Karaj on September 6
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES 5 ACCUSED OF SPYING
The Al-Shabaab on 4 September 2022 executed five men within Jilib town in Middle Jubba, Somalia, over claims that they have been sharing intelligence with the US Africa Command, a team that has been working closely with the Somali National Army [SNA] and
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 15 AWARDED DEATH FOR KILLING PRISONER IN JHARKHAND JAIL
Fifteen people were sentenced to death by Jamshedpur court on 18 August 2022 for killing an inmate of the Ghaghidih Central Jail during a clash between two groups in 2019.
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 Iranian women sentenced to death for their sexual orientation
Zahra Sedighi Hamedani and Elham Choobdar
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: PRESIDENT INFORMS THE SUPREME COURT THAT HE WILL NOT SIGN THE DEATH SENTENCES
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on 31 August 2022 informed the Supreme Court through the Attorney General that he will not sign the implementation of the death penalty.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: HAMAS EXECUTES FIVE PALESTINIANS, TWO FOR ISRAEL TIES
The Hamas movement governing the Gaza Strip says it has executed five Palestinians, including two for “collaboration” with Israel.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 5 FRIENDS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The Criminal Court in Egypt has sentenced five defendants who are friends to death by hanging, and sentenced another to life imprisonment, Middle East Monitor reported on 31 August 2022, citing Al-Watan newspaper.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Qanbarzahi and Ainullah Qanbarzahi executed in Zahedan on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2022Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
POPE FRANCIS CALLS FOR WORLDWIDE END TO DEATH PENALTY
Pope Francis called for a worldwide end to the death penalty in a video released on 31 August 2022 announcing his prayer intention for September.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Ghaed-Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on September 3
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Spring 2022
2,414 people on US death row, but "only" 1385 at "real risk of execution"
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2022South SudanDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH SUDAN EXECUTES REBELS DEPORTED FROM SUDAN
South Sudan on 8 August 2022 executed rebel officers who were forcefully deported by authorities in Sudan, according to a video and pictures Sudan Tribune obtained after the execution.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Khosravi executed in Qom on September 1
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRIVING DRUG CART AT POLICE
Pham Van Tang, 32 years old, was sentenced to death on 26 August 2022 in Vietnam for driving a motorbike carrying 9 kg of drugs and running at police while under siege in Vu Quang district.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ghareh Lar executed in Qom on September 1
25 days after his brother Ali’s execution in the same prison
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza Mardani executed in Isfahan on September 1
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amputated the fingers of Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini
in Gohardasht prison in Karaj on September 1