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
MARCH 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hatem Ozdemir sentenced to death
Kurdish political prisoner
MARCH 14, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: UMM AL QUWAIN COURT SENTENCES AFRICAN MAN TO DEATH FOR HIS ROOMMATE'S MURDER
An African man has been sentenced to death for murdering his roommate by stabbing him in the chest and heart, Khaleej Times reported on 13 March 2022.
MARCH 14, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 81 MEN EXECUTED IN ONE DAY, THE BIGGEST MASS EXECUTION IN DECADES
Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on 12 March 2022, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, for terrorism and other offenses including holding “deviant beliefs,” authorities said, in the biggest mass execution in decades.
MARCH 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Nasirkhah executed in Urmia Prison on March 14
MARCH 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A man and woman executed on March 14
In Shiraz Central Prison
MARCH 14, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The latest edition of "Death Row USA" Drusa has been published
State Death Rows Drop Below 2,400 For First Time Since 1990
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Firooz Moosa-Lou sentenced to death
For membership in the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafizollah Rakhshani executed in Zahedan Prison on March 13
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz prison on March 13
Jamshid Fadaei, Hossein Mehrabani, and 2 not identified
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison on March 13
One identified as Najaf Anjom
MARCH 13, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: SEVEN EXECUTED OVER ISLAMIST ATTACKS THAT KILLED POLICEMEN
Egyptian authorities executed seven men on 9 and 10 March 2022 in connection with “politically motivated” cases, and after a legal process marred by torture and lack of evidence, a rights group has told Middle East Eye.
MARCH 13, 2022BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONDEMNS EXECUTION
The UN Human Rights Committee on 10 March 2022 condemned Belarus for its execution of Victor Pavlov, whose petition was still being examined by the Committee.
MARCH 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alam Yarahmedzehi executed in Khash prison on March 12
(Also Yar-Ahmadzehi)
MARCH 10, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO EXECUTED OVER MURDER OF FREEDOM FIGHTER AT CUMILLA CENTRAL JAIL
Two convicted of the 2003 murder of Chattogram Railway official and freedom fighter Shafiuddin Ahmed, were executed at Cumilla Central Jail on 8 March 2022 night.
MARCH 10, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden renunciates to try two suspected Iranian secret agents
- MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahab … executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 10
Surname not known
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nizam Ali Mirzaei executed in Miandoab Prison on March 10
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sepideh Qoliyan is gravely ill
The prisoner of conscience needs of urgent medical care
- MARCH 9, 2022IdahoDEATH PENALTY
USA - Idaho. HB 658 to shield lethal injection drug providers fails to advance out of Senate Judiciary Committee
MARCH 9, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: CHIEF JUSTICE CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘CRUEL TREATMENT’ OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY
China’s chief justice has called for the death penalty for serious offences involving “cruel treatment” of women, children and the elderly, in an apparent response to public fury over recently exposed human trafficking cases.
MARCH 9, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER, RAPE OF WOMAN AND DAUGHTER IN GUJARAT
A court in Gujarat on 7 March 2022 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a woman and her 11-year-old daughter in 2018, a case that had triggered national outrage. His accomplice was given life imprisonment on the charge of murder.
MARCH 9, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: 16 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2016 ATTACKS
A Tunisian court sentenced 16 people to death in the first judgments against militants involved in 2016 attacks near the Libyan border that left scores dead, media reported on 5 March 2022.
MARCH 9, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. DA Concedes Byron Black Is Intellectually Disabled
Thus Ineligible for Execution
- MARCH 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 9
One identified by his surname, Salarzehi
MARCH 8, 2022YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF KERALA NURSE
An Appeals Court in Yemen on 7 March 2022 upheld death penalty for Keralite nurse Nimisha Priya (33) who is charged with murder of a Yemen youth back in 2017, a killing she maintains was accidental and at end of mental torture and business fraud on part o
MARCH 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 17 Women Executed in 2021
2 Hanged by Own Children
MARCH 8, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 4 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2014 MURDER OF 2 POLICEMEN
A Sharqiya criminal court handed on 3 March 2022 death sentences against four men and handed 7-15 jail terms to 26 others for murdering two policemen and attempting to murder other security personnel in 2014.
MARCH 7, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN DIES IN PRISON
An Egyptian man, who was sentenced to death for killing his three children with help of his two wives, died in prison before the death penalty could be carried out, Gulf News reported on 3 March 2022, citing local media.
MARCH 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has to return to prison tomorrow (March 8).
After a brief furlough following heart surgery
MARCH 7, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Senate OK’s HB 873 to withhold information in executions