Archive timeline
2022
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2022, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2022
- JULY 1, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Andrew Lancaster’s death sentence overturned
- JUNE 30, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE COURT REVERSES DEATH PENALTY FOR ISRAELI FACING DRUG CHARGES
The United Arab Emirates has cancelled a death sentence issued earlier this year to an Israeli woman who was convicted of cocaine possession, her lawyer said on 28 June 2022.
JUNE 30, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT SENTENCES 10 PEOPLE TO DEATH IN THE HELWAN BRIGADES CASE
A court in Cairo on 28 June 2022 sentenced 10 people to death and 56 others to life imprisonment in a mass trial of the case against the Helwan Brigades, whose members have been accused of committing violent acts in Egypt.
JUNE 30, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in
First Black Woman to Serve as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- JUNE 30, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Michael Bramit’s death sentence overturned
- JUNE 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 10 inmates executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on June 29
Iman Safari-rad, Mehdi Khlagaldi and 8 yet not identified
JUNE 28, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH PENALTY TO YOUTH FOR RAPE AND MURDER
A court in East Burdwan’s Katwa on 24 June 2022 handed the death penalty to a youth for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in 2018.
JUNE 28, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY, MURDER IN EKITI
An Ado-Ekiti High Court has sentenced four men, Babangida Amodu, 25, Oluwafemi Ibrahim, 20, Ojo Ayodele, 25, and Okunato Dada, 20, convicted of armed robbery and murder, to die by hanging, the Eagle Online reported on June 27, 2022.
- JUNE 27, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA FREES YOUNGEST PRISONER WHO FACED EXECUTION
Saudi authorities have released Murtaja Qureiris, who was once considered to be the kingdom's youngest political prisoner, a human rights group confirmed on 24 June 2022.
- JUNE 27, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN HAS 239 PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW
A total of 239 are on death row in Jordan, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Legal Committee Ghazi Al-Thneibat announced on 26 June 2022.
JUNE 27, 2022UzbekistanDEATH PENALTYUZBEKISTAN: THE DRAFT OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION PROPOSED TO BAN THE DEATH PENALTY
Uzbekistan has proposed to ban the death penalty. The corresponding item was included in the draft law on amendments and additions to the constitution of the republic, published in the parliamentary newspaper Narodnoye Slovo on 25 June 2022.
JUNE 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasrollah Iliad and an identified man executed in Karaj on June 27
JUNE 27, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. David Frances resentenced to life in prison
At retrial
JUNE 27, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden must take action on promise to end federal death penalty
- JUNE 26, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 6 JMB MEMBERS GET DEATH FOR KILLING FF
A Kurigram District and Sessions Judge Court on 23 June 2022 sentenced six members of banned extremist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh to death in a case filed over the murder of a freedom fighter.
JUNE 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Sanjari executed in Jiroft on June 26
JUNE 24, 2022OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. DeWine postpones last scheduled 2022 execution
- JUNE 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jilan Nourzehi executed in Kerman on June 23
JUNE 23, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: POLYGAMOUS MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BOYFRIEND OF ONE OF HIS 3 WIVES
A polygamous man has been sentenced to death, and he is to die by hanging after he was found guilty in Nigeria of the murder of the boyfriend of one of his three wives.
JUNE 23, 2022South KoreaDEATH PENALTYSOUTH KOREA: COURT HANDS DOWN RARE DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN FOUND GUILTY IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
A South Korea district court imposed a rare death sentence on a 53-year-old man on 23 June 2022 after he was found guilty of killing a woman for money in December last year, and then also murdering an accomplice.
JUNE 22, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: EDO MAID SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUGGING, KILLING IGBINEDION’S MOTHER
An Edo State High Court on 20 June 2022 sentenced a maid, Dominion Okoro, to death by hanging for killing Madam Maria Igbinedion, the mother of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion.
JUNE 22, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANJA TRAFFICKING SPARED GALLOWS
A couple sentenced to death in Malaysia three years ago for trafficking about 5kg of ganja were spared the gallows on 22 June 2022.
JUNE 21, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: 1,341 PRISONERS IN LIMBO
The lives of nearly 1,350 death-row inmates are hanging in the balance in the prisons of Malaysia.
JUNE 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran’s Human Rights in the UN Secretary-General’s Report
JUNE 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran slams UN for 'unjust, biased' human rights report
It is the iranian usual reaction to international criticism
- JUNE 20, 2022KenyaDEATH PENALTY
NEW RESEARCH EXAMINES KENYAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE DEATH PENALTY
A new study, commissioned by The Death Penalty Project, London, in partnership with the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Nairobi, has revealed that...
- JUNE 20, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN EKITI
Akinleye Seyi a.k.a. Erin has been sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery by an Ekiti State high court, Lailasnews reported on 16 June 2022.
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulrashid Sahneh executed in Gorgan on June 20
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Firuz Musalou secretly executed in Urmia Prison on June 20
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdol Latif Moradi executed in Mashhad on June 20