Chronological archive
November 2022
The 101 news items published by Hands Off Cain in November 2022, in chronological order.
INDIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH BY ODISHA COURT FOR RAPING, KILLING 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Two persons were sentenced to death by a fast-track court in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district on 29 November 2022 for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl.
NOVEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Brahui executed in Bandar Abbas on November 30
NOVEMBER 30, 2022IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Pizzuto’s execution canceled
State can’t find lethal drugs
NOVEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran To Try 10 Underage Protesters On Death Penalty Charges
- NOVEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran sentences 4 people to death for ‘cooperating’ with Israel
Maybe even executed
NOVEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence for the mother of 3
6-year-old girl shot in the eye
NOVEMBER 29, 2022MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Kevin Johnson was executed
37, Black
NOVEMBER 29, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: DEATH-ROW INMATES SEEK END TO HANGING AS INHUMANE EXECUTION
Three death-row inmates in Osaka filed a suit against the state on 29 November 2022, seeking an end to the practice of execution by hanging, claiming the method was inhumane under international conventions.
NOVEMBER 29, 2022North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: DEATH PENALTY THREATENED FOR SPREADING COVID ‘RUMORS’
A notice posted in the North Korean capital earlier this year and seen by NK News this week warns that those who spread “rumors” about COVID-19 and Pyongyang’s quarantine policies could face the death penalty.
NOVEMBER 28, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: HCMC WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DEADLY ABUSE OF 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A woman who had beaten her fiancé's daughter to death in HCMC last year was sentenced to death on 25 November 2022, while the father received eight years in prison.
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TRIPURA FOR KILLING FIVE INCLUDING TWO MINOR DAUGHTERS
A Tripura court on 23 November 2022 sentenced a person to death after he was convicted of murdering five persons including his two minor daughters, his brother, another person and a police officer at Ramchandraghat in Khowai district of Agartala a year ag
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Amin Omar Zehi and Noor Mohammad Mazar Zehi executed in Zahedan on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Salah Zahi executed in Iranshahr on November 28
- NOVEMBER 28, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Alan Eugene Miller, 'execution survivor', reaches settlement with state
Alabama won't seek another lethal injection date
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence For Anyone Contacting Foreign Media
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Turkzadeh executed in Hamadan on November 28
(first name unknown)
NOVEMBER 27, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: 49 DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DJAMEL BENSMAIL’S MURDER
Algeria’s Criminal Court of First Instance in Algiers on 24 November 2022 sentenced 49 people involved in the murder of Djamel Bensmail to the death penalty.
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ziber Brahui executed in Zahedan on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Muhammad Umar Khame executed in Mashhad
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on November 27
Hojat Nemati, Abbas Sabz, Omar Zardkohi, Shahram Ahmadzadeh + unknown
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Changiz Gergij executed in Zabol on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Omar Khameh executed in Mashhad on November 27
NOVEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Isa Zahi executed in Zahedan on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Kheirollahi and Saheb Rasouli executed in Isfahan on November 26
NOVEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Special meeting of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating of human rights in Iran
NOVEMBER 24, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY AS 70 PEOPLE ON TRIAL WITH BURNING A PERSON ALIVE
Algerian Public Prosecution requested on 19 November 2022 the death penalty against more than 70 people charged with torturing a man, burning him alive and mutilating his body.
NOVEMBER 24, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: POLICE OFFICER WHO KILLED MAN OVER CIGARETTE LIGHTER GETS DEATH PENALTY
A Somali military court has sentenced to death a police officer convicted of killing a civilian following an argument over a cigarette lighter, The East African reported on 24 November 2022.
NOVEMBER 23, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Governor Halts Executions After Execution Failures
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey
NOVEMBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Lotfi executed in Ilam on November 23
NOVEMBER 23, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 17 EXECUTED FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENCES
Since 10 November 2022, Saudi Arabia has executed 17 men for what were termed drug and contraband offences, with three taking place on 21 November.
NOVEMBER 23, 2022UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Douglas Carter trial to be repeated
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- NOVEMBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Isfahan on November 23
NOVEMBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Niaz Jadgal executed in Chabahar Prison on November 23
- NOVEMBER 22, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: TWO FORMER GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS EXECUTED
The Somali military court on 17 November 2022 executed two former government soldiers by firing squad for murders committed in Kismayo.
NOVEMBER 22, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO MILITANTS CONVICTED TO DEATH IN DIPAN MURDER CASE FLEE DHAKA COURT LOCK-UP
Two members of the banned militant group Ansar al-Islam, who were sentenced to death in Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, escaped from the lock-up of Dhaka court on November 20, 2022.
NOVEMBER 22, 2022AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGGED 19 PEOPLE AS PUNISHMENT FOR ADULTERY & THEFT
The hardline Islamist Taliban regime on November 19, 2022 lashed at least 19 people for committing various crimes such as adultery, theft, and running away from home, a Supreme Court official confirmed.
NOVEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 416 people including 51 children and 27 women killed in the ongoing nationwide protests
Killed byy security forces
NOVEMBER 21, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FORMER SOLDIERS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD IN KISMAYO
Somali military court executed two former government soldiers in Kismayo on November 19, 2022 after they were convicted of killing a civilian and another soldier, the regional state media reported.
NOVEMBER 21, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS
A Saudi national has been sentenced to death for smuggling banned amphetamine tablets near the country’s northern border with Jordan, the Saudi Press Agency reported on 20 November 2022 citing the Ministry of Interior.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran sentences to death 6th person over protests
NOVEMBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hakim Dehmardeh executed in Taibad on November 19
NOVEMBER 17, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DUAL NATIONAL WAJIHA SWATI’S HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Rizwan Habib, the widower of and prime accused in the murder of Wajiha Swati, was sentenced to death and 10 years imprisonment on 12 November 2022.
NOVEMBER 17, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CUMILLA FOR 2018 RAPE FOLLOWED BY MURDER
A tribunal in Cumilla on 8 November 2022 sentenced two men to death for killing a 10-year-old girl after rape in Monohargonj upazila in 2018.
NOVEMBER 17, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Alabama Tries and Fails to Execute Kenneth Smith
NOVEMBER 17, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Richard Fairchild, 63, White, was executed
NOVEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Abdollahi and Fariborz Shahbazi executed in Rasht on November 17
NOVEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Abil executed in Mashhad on November 17
NOVEMBER 16, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: SEVEN PEOPLE HANGED IN FIRST EXECUTIONS SINCE 2017
Kuwait put seven people to death in a mass execution on November 16, 2022, the state-run KUNA news agency confirmed, making it the first execution since 2017 despite appeals from human rights organisations for clemency.
NOVEMBER 16, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DRUGS CASE IN GOPALGANJ
A Gopalganj court on 13 November 2022 has given death sentence to four people in a drugs scase.
NOVEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahab … executed in Mashhad on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Stephen Barbee, 55, White, was executed
The execution was prolonged while officials searched for a vein
NOVEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Dehmardeh executed in Birjand on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Murray Hooper, 76, Black, was executed
NOVEMBER 16, 2022United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran tried to assassinate British residents 10 times this year
MI5 reveals
- NOVEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Moulai executed in Hamedan on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three protestors were sentenced to death
Arrested in Tehran
NOVEMBER 15, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: JUSTICE MINISTER RESIGNS AFTER DEATH PENALTY QUIP
Japan's justice minister stepped down on November 11 evening, becoming the second minister to leave Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet over a scandal in less than a month and forcing a last-minute delay for the embattled premier's Asia tour.
NOVEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ismail Faqirdadzehi executed in Zahedan on November 17
NOVEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH FOR ATTACK TARGETING CHINESE ENGINEERS
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has awarded death sentences to two men accused of killing 13 people in a suicide attack last year, including nine Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project.
NOVEMBER 15, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Rasmussen Reports poll: 46% in favour of death penalty, 28% against, 26% abstentions
NOVEMBER 14, 2022KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEALING FROM A BODA BODA RIDER
Moses Kirimi, a man who posed as a passenger and stole from a Boda Boda Rider has been sentenced to death in Kenya, Nairobi Gossip Club reported on 3 November 2022.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution of two prisoners in Torbat Jam prison on November 14
Mohammad Nabi Soleimani (Rigi) and Abdullah Sufi (Golmir Rigi)
- NOVEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dawood Bahrami executed in Hamadan on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jimmy Spencer sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 14, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gallup poll: 55% Support Death Penalty, 42% against, 3% abstentions.
NOVEMBER 13, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS 3 MEN ON DEATH ROW FOR DELHI TEEN’S RAPE-MURDER
The Supreme Court of India on 7 November 2022 acquitted three men sentenced to death in the brutal gangrape-cum-murder of a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawla in 2012.
NOVEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sultan Seifi executed in Qom on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on November 13
Vali Roudini, Mohsen Anshini and Emam Bakhsh Narouyi
NOVEMBER 13, 2022United NationsDEATH PENALTYDEATH PENALTY: UN SUPPORT TO A MORATORIUM GROWS TO 126 MEMBER STATES
International support grew at the United Nations for a moratorium on executions.
NOVEMBER 12, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES BY FIRING SQUAD AL-SHABAAB OPERATIVE IN GALKAYO
Somalia military court on 1 November 2022 executed by firing squad an Al-Shabaab operative in a public square in Galkayo, the capital of the Mudug region.
NOVEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three Men Executed in Shiraz on November 12
Vahid Pakzad, Keyvan Tajadod and an unidentified man
- NOVEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - More than 54 minors under the age of 18 killed in the nationwide uprising
UNICEF statement expressed deep concern
NOVEMBER 11, 2022LesothoDEATH PENALTYLESOTHO: DEATH PENALTY FOR HIV RAPISTS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, TOP COURT RULES
A decision by the constitutional division of Lesotho’s High Court has found controversial provisions in that country’s sexual offences law, unconstitutional.
NOVEMBER 11, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: TEN AL-SHABAAB CONVICTS EXECUTED WITHIN TWO WEEKS
The Somalia military court on 3 November 2022 executed two Al-Shabaab convicts as part of the ongoing fight against the militants who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, making it a total of 10 people to be killed within two weeks
- NOVEMBER 10, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF RAPE, MURDER CONVICT WHO SPENT 10-YRS SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN JAIL
The Supreme Court of India on 4 November 2022 commuted the death sentence awarded to a man for the rape and murder of a widow in 1998, noting he was in solitary confinement in jail for about 10 years.
NOVEMBER 10, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: LAUNCH OF A NETWORK OF LAWYERS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
The Tunisian Coalition against the Death Penalty (CTCPM), in collaboration with ECPM, the Organization against Torture in Tunisia (OCTT) and the Danish institute against torture (Dignity) on October 15 and 16, 2022, organized lawyers in Hammamet.
- NOVEMBER 9, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: 24 YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF DENTAL TECHNOLOGIST
The High Court of Seremban, Malaysia, found a 24-year-old man guilty of killing a dental technologist four years ago and gave him the death penalty on 27 October 2022, Bernama reported.
NOVEMBER 9, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Tracy Beatty executed on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2022DEATH PENALTYECPM: 8TH WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY IN BERLIN FROM 15 TO 18 NOVEMBER 2022
Under the high patronage of Germany and the sponsorship of the Swiss and French governments as well as the European Union, Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) is organizing, in partnership with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP), th
NOVEMBER 9, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Taylor Parker sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 9, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB HITMEN EXECUTED A DAY AFTER A DEADLY CAR BOMBINGS
Somalia's military court on 31 October 2022 executed three Al-Shabaab hitmen in the latest move which comes just a day after the militants raided downtown Mogadishu, killing over 100 people while injuring scores.
NOVEMBER 8, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: GRAND MUFTI UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SALMA BAHGAT'S KILLER
An Egyptian court on 7 November 2022 upheld the death sentence for a man who murdered a university student in the agricultural province of Sharqia.
NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Votes to Execute Protesters
It is unclear whether this is a new law or just a "recommendation"
NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian Protester Handed Death Sentence
Mahan Sedarat
NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five prisoners executed in Arak prison
Saeed Moghadam, Sajjad Yousefi, Nasser, Reza, and Nasser Iranshahi
NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashed Baloch and Ishaq Ishaq executed in Zahedan on November 8
- NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shoaib Askani and Eshagh Askani executed in Zahedan on November 8
- NOVEMBER 7, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: INDIAN-ORIGIN MAN ACQUITTED AFTER GETTING DEATH PENALTY VIA ZOOM
A 39-year-old Indian-origin Malaysian who was sentenced to death via Zoom for drug trafficking in May 2020 was on 31 October 2022 acquitted by Singapore's Court of Appeal, saying the prosecution did not prove its case.
NOVEMBER 7, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: TWO ISIS MILITANTS EXECUTED IN MOGADISHU
Somali officials on 26 October 2022 executed two ISIS militants convicted for carrying out assassinations on behalf of the al-Shabab terrorist group, marking the second execution of Islamist militants in a week.
NOVEMBER 7, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO WANTS DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED
President Akufo-Addo has joined the campaign to get the death penalty expunged from the country’s laws.
- NOVEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 inmates executed in Arak on November 6
unidentified
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NOVEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nematollah Barahouyi and Amanollah Alizehi executed in Zahedan on November 6
NOVEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Protests: At least 304 Including 41 Minors Killed
NOVEMBER 3, 2022MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Richard Emery formally sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Janali Gholamhosseini executed in Hamadan on November 3
- NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on November 2
NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Birjand prison on November 2
Nur Ahmad Totazahi, Abdullah Totazahi (Rigi). Mohammad Khushal and ... Khosravi
NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Tadzari executed in Ardabil on November 2
NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Qaen Prison on November 2
Abdolsaboor Narouyi and an unidentified man
NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Mulaii executed in Zanjan on November 1
- NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 1
Amir Ghoncheh (Ghancheh), Jafar Tourjan (Turjan) and an unidentified man