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
MARCH 7, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Senate OK’s HB 873 to withhold information in executions
- MARCH 6, 2022DEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Markeith Loyd receives death penalty
- MARCH 6, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS STILL SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY IN LATEST MHA SURVEY
The majority of Singapore residents still support the death penalty, Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on 3 March 2022, citing preliminary findings from a survey conducted last year.
MARCH 6, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Feds appeal reversal in Alfonso Rodriguez death penalty case
MARCH 4, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- MARCH 4, 2022DEATH PENALTY
USA - Georgia. Timothy Foster Resentenced to LPWP
- MARCH 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Mousavi executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on March 3
- MARCH 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Naderi executed in Dezful Prison on March 3
MARCH 3, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: COMMUTED DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED AS MINOR REINSTATED
A Saudi man sentenced to death for crimes reportedly committed when he was a minor, only to see the judgement overturned last year, had his death sentence reinstated on 2 March 2022, according to his family.
MARCH 3, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Roderick Orme sentenced to death
MARCH 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Firouz Bahrami Astaraki executed in Dezful Prison on March 3
For the murder of the commander of a SSF station, Abbas Naderi
- MARCH 2, 2022North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREA: DAUGHTER OF HIGH-RANKING CADRE ALONG WITH BOYFRIEND EXECUTED FOR WATCHING AND DISTRIBUTING S. KOREAN VIDEOS
The daughter of a high-ranking cadre along with her boyfriend have been publicly executed for watching and distributing South Korean films, soap operas, and entertainment programs.
MARCH 2, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN FROM PUNE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPING AND KILLING TWO-YEAR-OLD
The Pune court on 28 February 2022 pronounced the death penalty to a 38-year-old man in a case related to sexual assault and murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl.
MARCH 2, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Court of Appeals overturns conviction of Joseph Colone
MARCH 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Shahsavand executed in Isfahan on March 2
MARCH 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Vahid Tabataba’I executed in Gohardasht Prison on March 2
77 executions since the beginning of the year
- MARCH 1, 2022MaldivesDEATH PENALTY
MALDIVES: BANGLADESHI NATIONAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING BUSINESSMAN
Criminal Court on 27 February 2022 ordered the death sentence on Shah Alom Mia (Salim) over the death of Mahmood Abubakuru, a businessman from Dhangethi of Alif Dhaal atoll.
- MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - On unspecified date Ahmad Salarzehi and Naeem Shahbakhsh executed in Shiraz
"second week of March"
MARCH 1, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH, SIX OTHERS TO LIFE FOR KILLING ZILLUR BHANDARI IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on 14 February 2022 sentenced two people to death and six others to life in prison for the murder of Zillur Bhandari.
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date 3 men executed in Shiraz
Fahim Afghani, Mehrdad Moqaddas and Hassan Gholam Shahi "in the second week of March"
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date Mohammad Reza Heidari executed in Shiraz
"first week of March"
- FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Salehbeig received 74 lashes prior to being executed in Zanjan on February 28
(also Salehbeyg, Saleh-Beyg)
FEBRUARY 28, 2022RussiaDEATH PENALTYRUSSIA: DMITRY MEDVEDEV CALLS ON RUSSIA TO REINTRODUCE DEATH PENALTY
After the Council of Europe on 25 February 2022 suspended Russia’s rights of representation, the country’s deputy chairman of the Security Council says this is a good opportunity to restore the death penalty for the most severe crimes.
FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile offender Mohammadreza Hadadi released
(Also Mohammad-Reza Haddadi)
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BOMBAY HIGH COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH PENALTY IN RAPE AND MURDER CASE; ACQUITS ACCUSED OF MURDER, UPHOLDS RAPE CHARGE
The Bombay High Court on 23 February 2022 quashed the death sentence of a man convicted of killing and raping a girl on the ground that the accusation of murder could not be proven.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI-AMERICAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BEHEADING GIRLFRIEND
A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on 24 February 2022, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Heydar Ghorbani executed in Khorramabad on February 27
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Ghanbari executed in Jiroft on February 27
- FEBRUARY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Execution Postponed After Heart Attack
Hojat Ostad-Asyabi suffered a heart attack at the gallows in Ardabil Prison on February 26
FEBRUARY 25, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court