Archive timeline
2022
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2022, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 911
- Countries where they were recorded
- 20
- News items in the archive
- 1,071
Latest news of 2022
AUGUST 5, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - 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, 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 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 awaiting execution of blinding sentence
One woman and two men
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.
AUGUST 1, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPTIAN 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.
- JULY 31, 2022DEATH PENALTY
EXECUTIONS COME BACK TO MYANMAR BUT HATRED IS NOT THE ANSWER
Sergio D’Elia – Secretary General Hands Off Cain
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Me'raji e Nemat Valipour Executed on July 31
In Shiraz and Sabzevar
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Payam Nouri executed in Ardabil on July 31
JULY 31, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: FIVE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS FROM HCMC TO PHILIPPINES
Five men were all sentenced to death on 27 July 2022 in HCMC (Vietnam) for transporting almost 300 kg of methamphetamine to the Philippines in 2019.
- JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Ebrahimi and Salar Nasiri executed in Urmia on June 30
JULY 30, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Delay in James’ execution caused by IV line issue
JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayub Mirzaei executed on July 30 in Dizelabad Prison
JULY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Shah Bakhsh and Ziaullah Brahui executed in Damghan on July 27
JULY 28, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NIGER STATE FOR CULPABLE HOMICIDE
A Minna High Court in Niger State has sentenced three men, Mohammed Ibrahim Soja, Sani Idris Boka and Babangida Gido, to death by hanging after they were found guilty of a 10-count charge bordering on culpable homicide, the Daily Trust reported on 25 July
- JULY 28, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Joe Nathan James, 50, Black, was executed
8th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA
- JULY 28, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Bill Roberts, 60, White, sentenced to death
JULY 28, 2022MassachusettsDEATH PENALTYUSA - Massachusetts. Formally Exonerates Last ‘Witch’, Elizabeth Johnson
Sentenced to death in 1693
JULY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Falah-Delavar executed in Rasht on July 28
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soheila Abedi executed in Sanandaj on July 27
139th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: INDIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS
The Criminal Court of Kuwait City sentenced an Indian expat to death by hanging for smuggling in narcotic substances with a market value of about 11,000 dinars with the intent of trafficking, Arab Times reported on 24 July 2022.
JULY 27, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF 9-MONTH-OLD STEPSON
A Trinidad man has been found guilty of murder and his former common-law wife guilty of manslaughter over the death of his nine-month-old stepson, who was beaten to death in 2008, The Guardian (TT) reported on July 26, 2022.
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faranak Beheshti was executed in Urmia on July 27
138th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran cuts off man’s fingers for theft
8 others at risk of amputation
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Sanandaj on July 27
Payam Yazdani, Heyva Ahmadi and Abdollah Rahimi
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Arjmandi executed in Bam on July 27