2022

GAZA: 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.

EGYPT: 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.

IRAN - Mohsen Qanbarzahi and Ainullah Qanbarzahi executed in Zahedan on September 3

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.

IRAN - Massoud Ghaed-Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on September 3

USA - Death Row USA Spring 2022

2,414 people on US death row, but "only" 1385 at "real risk of execution"

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.

IRAN - Mohammad Khosravi executed in Qom on September 1

VIETNAM: 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.

IRAN - Hamid Ghareh Lar executed in Qom on September 1

25 days after his brother Ali’s execution in the same prison

IRAN - Hamidreza Mardani executed in Isfahan on September 1

IRAN - Amputated the fingers of Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini

in Gohardasht prison in Karaj on September 1

IRAN - Mohammed Hossein Kahrari executed in Arak on August 31

IRAN - Morteza Teymoori and Mohammad-Hassan Kahrari executed in Arak on August 31

IRAN - Aref Maleki executed in Shiraz on August 31

EGYPT: 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.

IRAN - Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh was actually a minor

GAZA: 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.

USA - California. California Passes Legislation that will reduce death row

SOMALIA: 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.

CHINA: 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.

EGYPT: 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.

IRAN - Esmail Bargrizan executed in Bandar Abbas on August 28

IRAN - Saeed Sabki executed in Bandar Abbas on August 28

IRAN - 2 executions in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz on August 28

Rahim Qanbarzahi (Ghanbarzehi) and Mujtabi Khadmini Nejad (Khademinejad)

IRAN - Gholamreza Kazemi e Reza Zahmati giustiziati a Zabol il 27 agosto

IRAN - Omid Ali Garavand executed in Khorramabad on August 27

413 esecuzioni in Iran dall'inizio dell'anno

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in a Tehran prison

USA - Oklahoma. James Coddington, now 50, White, was executed

10th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA

USA - Alabama. Judge Chris Comer sentenced Warren Hardy to death