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
MAY 17, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: EX-ARMY CHIEF'S ALLY SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ‘TREASON’
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of “high treason”, the French-language daily El Watan reported on 15 May 2022.
- MAY 16, 2022TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS URGE TAIWAN TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
An international panel of human rights experts on 13 May 2022 called on Taiwan to end the "cruel and degrading" practice of capital punishment.
- MAY 15, 2022Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DR CONGO: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FLORIBERT CHEBEYA
A Congolese military court on 11 May 2022 sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya, which caused national outrage.
- MAY 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrab Salehi executed in Yazd on May 15
Probably a juvenile at the time of the alleged crime
- MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshad Gamshadzehi, Esmail Jahantigh and Mansour Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on May 14
Farshad Gamshadzehi may have been a juvenile offender
MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Bameri executed in Iranshahr on May 14
The man was unable to pay the €23.000 diya (reparation)
MAY 14, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Davone Anderson sentenced to death
- MAY 13, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Everett Miller formally sentenced to death
- MAY 13, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. David Ware sentenced to death
- MAY 12, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE, MURDER BY BIHAR COURT
A court in Bihar’s Supaul on 11 May 2022 sentenced to death four persons convicted in a 2019 gang rape and murder case.
- MAY 12, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FENIL GOYANI SENTENCED TO DEATH IN GRISHMA VEKARIYA MURDER CASE
The Surat sessions court on 5 May 2022 awarded death sentence to Fenil Goyani (20) for the murder of 21-year-old college student Grishma Vekariya outside her house at Pasodara area of Surat in February.
MAY 12, 2022BotswanaDEATH PENALTYBOTSWANA: HERDER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WOMAN'S HACKING
A 27-year-old man of Sefhophe village was on 11 May 2022 sentenced to death for hacking the wife of his employer to death with an axe.
MAY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Fartash executed in Isfahan on May 12
143 executions in 2022
MAY 11, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Clarence Dixon was executed
At the state prison in Florence on May 11
MAY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kh. executed in Mashhad on May 11
- MAY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Sabzevar Prison on May 10
138 executions in 2022
- MAY 10, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Davone Anderson sentenced to death
On May 10
MAY 10, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR FATHER’S MURDER
The Court of Cassation has upheld a December Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after convicting him of murdering his father in Amman in December 2019, Jordan times reported on 7 May 2022.
- MAY 10, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgian Court of Appeals’ Sentence on Bomb Plot at Iranian Resistance Rally in Paris
MAY 9, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND ALONGSIDE FAMILY PASTOR IS RELEASED FROM PRISON
A woman jailed for killing her husband has been released from prison in Benin city, Edo state, after a landmark ruling at the Supreme Court, Standard Gazette reported on 6 May 2022.
MAY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Europe must make the serious consequences of executing Ahmadreza Djalali clear
To Islamic Republic officials
- MAY 8, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF MONARCH IN EKITI
Justice Olukayode Ogundana of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on 5 May 2022 sentenced a 42-year-old man, Ademola Omoniyi to death by hanging for the murder of a traditional ruler in the state.
MAY 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Shiraz on May 8
Abbas Pajmordeh, Ali Pajmordeh, Mohammad Gholamhosseini and Ali Hossein Pahan
- MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 Men and a Woman Executed in Zahedan on May 7
The number of women executed in Iran since the summer of 2013 reaches 132
MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Naderi and Abolfazl Hassan Moradi Executed in Qom on May 7
MAY 5, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY TO 20-YEAR JAIL IN MINOR’S RAPE-MURDER CASE
The Supreme Court on 19 April 2022 commuted the death sentence of a man, who had sexually assaulted and killed a four-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh in April 2013, to 20-year imprisonment.
MAY 5, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Gov. Doug Ducey says his pro-life stance applies to abortions, not the death penalty
MAY 4, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: SENATE OUTLAWS RANSOM PAYMENTS, SETS DEATH PENALTY FOR ABDUCTIONS
Nigeria's Senate on 27 April 2022 passed a bill imposing jail terms of at least 15 years for paying a ransom to free someone who has been kidnapped...
MAY 4, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: TWO CHINESE GET DEATH FOR METH PRODUCTION
A court in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum sentenced two Chinese men to death on 16 April 2022 for running an operation producing over 11kg of methamphetamine.
- MAY 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Ahmadreza Djalali at Imminent Risk of Execution
The international community should react in time