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
JUNE 1, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COP SENTENCED TO DEATH, ANOTHER GETS LIFE TERM FOR MURDERING TEENAGE STUDENT
A district court on 30 May 2022 awarded capital punishment to a police constable and life imprisonment to a volunteer cop for the Police Qaumi Razakar (PQR) for murdering a teenage student and wounding another in an alleged fake encounter in Gulshan-e-Iqb
JUNE 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed by own his own son on June 1
- MAY 31, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Judge Edward Guido formally sentenced Davone Anderson to death on May 31, 2022
MAY 31, 2022IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: COURT SENTENCES ISIS PLOTTER OF 2021 BAGHDAD MARKET BOMBING TO DEATH
An Iraqi court on 30 May 2022 sentenced to death an ISIS group member convicted of plotting a 2021 bomb attack that killed 32 people in a crowded Baghdad market.
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Allah Nazar Esmailzehi executed in Damghan Prison on May 31
183 executions in 2022
MAY 31, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TWO EKITI MEN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR ROBBING 53-YEAR-OLD LECTURER
An Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced 36-year-old Fakorede Olawale and 39-year-old Tunji Olaitan to death for armed robbery, Punch reported on 31 May 2022.
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Faraji executed in Isfahan on May 31
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Latifi executed in Kermanshah on May 31
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Amiri-Margavi executed in Sari Prison on May 31
The news was released on July 5 by IHR
- MAY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Saveh
Exact place and date of execution unknown
MAY 30, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE
A 52-year-old Nigerian man, Nkereuwem Etim Emah, on 27 May 2022 was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of his pregnant wife.
- MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Sarhadi executed in Isfahan on May 29
- MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahab … executed in Mashhad Central Prison on May 29
MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on May 29
MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Hassanlou executed in Zanjan on May 29
MAY 28, 2022Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: SOLDIERS, CIVILIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SELLING ARMS
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death eight soldiers and three civilians for selling arms to a violent rebel group.
MAY 28, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: AN ETHIOPIAN IS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN INDIAN COLLEAGUE
The Ethiopian woman who stabbed her Indian colleague to death has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeals, Kuwaitlocal reported on 27 May 2022.
MAY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidollah Sahrai executed in Chabahar on May 28
MAY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Gorgij executed in Zabol Prison on May 28
179 executions since the beginning of the year
- MAY 26, 2022JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA: LIFE SENTENCE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DEATH PENALTY – CHANG
While not ruling out a return to the death penalty, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says imposing a life sentence will be more effective in the drive towards eradicating crimes and criminality in the society.
MAY 26, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 3 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SISTER IN HARIDWAR
Three members of the same family were awarded the death penalty by an Additional District and Sessions Court in Haridwar (Uttarakhand) on 20 May 2022, for murdering their sister.
- MAY 25, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Autopsy Reports: Recently Executed Oklahoma Prisoners Had Fluid in Lungs
- MAY 25, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Steven Butler resentenced to life
On claims of intellectual disability
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ladan Molasaeedi, a woman, executed in Qarchak on May 25
Fifth woman to be executed in 2022
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on May 25
Karim Bagheri, the football player, saved 2 men
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - R.A. executed on May 25
Location of the execution not specified
MAY 25, 2022ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES 'BIG DECISION' TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on 24 May 2022 announced he is making moves to abolish the death penalty in the country.
MAY 25, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Juan Segundo ineligible for death penalty
MAY 25, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SPECIAL CBI COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO MAIN ACCUSED SURINDER KOLI IN NITHARI CASE
The main accused in the Nithari killings, Surinder Koli, on 19 May 2022 was awarded the death penalty by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad.
- MAY 24, 2022DEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY 2021: STATE-SANCTIONED KILLINGS RISE AS EXECUTIONS SPIKE IN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA
2021 saw a worrying rise in executions and death sentences as some of the world’s most prolific executioners returned to business as usual and courts were unshackled from Covid-19 restrictions, Amnesty International said on 24 May 2022 in its annual revie