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
FEBRUARY 7, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Three locals and a China national were sentenced to death by the Sibu High Court on 4 February 2022 after they were found guilty of two drug trafficking charges.
FEBRUARY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mirza Rouhifar executed in Aligoudarz Prison on February 7
FEBRUARY 7, 2022VirginiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Virginia. Senate Judiciary Committee stops bill to reinstate death penalty
FEBRUARY 7, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Autopsy for John Grant shows fluid in lungs, aspiration on vomit
Executed on October 28
- FEBRUARY 6, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO POLICE OFFICERS SENT TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING EX-ARMY MAJOR
A Bangladeshi court on 31 January 2022 handed down the death penalty to two policemen and life term to seven other officers on charges of killing an ex-army major in a “pre-planned” attack in Cox’s Bazar, a sea-side resort town, in 2020.
FEBRUARY 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Tahmatan and Behzad Tahmatan executed in Ardabil on February 6
- FEBRUARY 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Rezaei wrongly executed in 2018
For murders Behzad Tahmtan received the death penalty for
FEBRUARY 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Atrocities Tribunal Charges 160 Officials With Crimes Against Humanity
Also known as Aban Tribunal
FEBRUARY 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khatoun Hamidi hanged in Qazvin on February 5
FEBRUARY 4, 2022IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Gerald Pizzuto’s death sentence reduced to life in prison
Ruling with far-reaching implications
FEBRUARY 3, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES MAN BY FIRING SQUAD FOR ALLEGED SPYING
Al-Shabaab militants have announced the execution of a man who they accused of spying for the Ethiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF] working for AMISOM and the Southwest regional troops, Garowe reported 1 february 2022.
FEBRUARY 3, 2022NigerDEATH PENALTYNIGER: TWO ALGERIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2013 AREVA ATTACK
At the end of December, the Niamey Court of Appeal handed down two death sentences and five acquittals.
FEBRUARY 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Najibullah Gorgij executed in Mashhad on February 3
FEBRUARY 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafizaullah Barahooye executed in Zahedan on February 3
FEBRUARY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man "recently" executed in Rajai Shahr Prison
Sentenced for murder based on qassameh testimony
FEBRUARY 2, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER RAPING, MURDERING OWN MOTHER
A man has been sentenced to death after raping and murdering his own mother in Tanta, Egypt, The Filipino Times reported on 31 January 2022.
FEBRUARY 2, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: PUNTLAND SENTENCES SIX MILITANTS TO DEATH AND JAIL TERMS FOR SERIAL KILLINGS
A military court in Somalia’s Puntland state has sentenced four men to death and two others to jail terms following a trial that substantiated their links to Al-Shabaab militants, Garowe online reported on 1 February 2022.
- FEBRUARY 2, 2022KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
USA - Kentucky. House panel OKs death penalty ban for mental illnesses
FEBRUARY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Shiraz on February 2
FEBRUARY 1, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 4 ROBBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KANO FOR MURDER
Four armed robbery suspects have been sentenced to death by hanging by a Kano High Court presided by Justice Nasiru Saminu, The Sun reported on 30 January 2022.
FEBRUARY 1, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 488 CONVICTS ON DEATH ROW AT THE END OF 2021
There are about 488 convicts on death row across India at the end of December 2021, the highest since 2004.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - On unspecified date Mohammad Anbarzehi executed in Shiraz
"in February"
- JANUARY 31, 2022Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: 51 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MURDER OF UN EXPERTS BY A MILITARY COURT
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced 51 people to death on 29 January 2022, several in absentia, as well as a 10-year prison term and two acquittals in a mass trial over the 2017 killing of two UN experts in Kasai, central DRC.
JANUARY 31, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 10 SENTENCED TO DEATH ON CHARGES OF PLANNING ATTACKS
An Egyptian court on 30 January 2022 sentenced to death 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group for coordinating and planning attacks on the police, the state-news agency MENA has reported.
JANUARY 31, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Pervis Payne Resentenced to Concurrent Life Terms
Eligible for Parole in Five Years After 34 Years on Death Row
- JANUARY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Afaridoun executed in Zahedan on January 30
JANUARY 30, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MORE THAN 100 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN YANGON SINCE COUP
Myanmar’s junta has condemned more than 100 people to death in the Yangon region alone since it seized power a year ago, Radio Free Asia reported on 27 January 2022.
JANUARY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi executed in Maragheh on January 30
On sodomy charges
- JANUARY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nasser Sohrabzehi Executed in Zahedan
JANUARY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Kaveh executed in Rasht Prison on January 29