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
JANUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: KARACHI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN WIFE’S MURDER CASE
A model court has handed down death sentence to a man for burning his wife to death over a domestic dispute, Dawn reported on 26 January 2022.
JANUARY 27, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BIHAR POSCO COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR RAPE OF SIX-YEAR-OLD
A special court under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on 26 January 2022 sentenced a 48-year-old man to death for the rape of a six-year-old girl in Bihar’s Araria.
JANUARY 27, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Matthew Reeveswas executed on January 27
43, Black
JANUARY 27, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Donald Anthony Grant, 46, Black, was executed
JANUARY 27, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Capital Punishment, 2020 Statistics
Death Row Below 2,500 First Time in 29 Years
JANUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mir Soltan Amiri executed in Urmia on January 27
On drug-related charges
JANUARY 27, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Cory Maples’ death sentenced tossed out
JANUARY 26, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, THREE CHILDREN
An antiterrorism court on 20 January 2022 awarded death sentence to a convict for murdering his wife, two minor children and a minor brother-in-law over domestic issues in 2017.
JANUARY 26, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER AFTER RAPE
A Chattogram court on 20 January 2022 sentenced a man to death for killing a woman after rape at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram in 2017.
- JANUARY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Brothers Yasser and Younes Nourizadeh Receive Death Penalty
For Drug Offences
JANUARY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghaneh and Akbar... executed in Shiraz on January 26
JANUARY 25, 2022KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: MAN WHO VIOLENTLY STOLE PHONES, CASH SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man accused of using excessive force to steal mobile phones and some cash from two city businessmen has been sentenced to death, Nairobi News reported on 21 January 2022.
JANUARY 25, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN IN MADARIPUR
A Madaripur court on 24 January 2022 sentenced five people to death for killing a housewife at the Rajoir upazila of the district in 2002.
JANUARY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qarchak Prison, a Nightmare for Women Prisoners
JANUARY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran-HRM year end report
More than 365 prisoners have been executed in 2021 in Iran
JANUARY 24, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: BENUE STATE GOVERNOR ORTOM GRANTS AMNESTY TO 50 CONVICTS
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has granted amnesty to 50 convicts serving various jail terms across the country.
JANUARY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Mohammadi sentenced to eight years imprisonment and 70 lashes
Prominent human rights defender
- JANUARY 24, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: TWO PROMINENT ACTIVISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two prominent political activists in military-ruled Myanmar have been sentenced to death on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activities, a military television station reported 21 January 2022.
JANUARY 23, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO SISTERS ON DEATH ROW SPARED THE NOOSE BY BOMBAY HC
Observing that state machinery showed “laxity and indifference” in deciding their mercy plea, the Bombay High Court, in Maharashtra state,n on 18 January 2022 commuted the death sentences awarded to sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit to life imprisonme
JANUARY 23, 2022Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTYPAPUA NEW GUINEA REPEALS DEATH PENALTY 30 YEARS AFTER REINTRODUCING IT
The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea announced on 20 January 2022 the abolition of the death penalty for all crimes in the country, 30 years after its reintroduction.
JANUARY 20, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TEXTING CARICATURES OF PROPHET
A Muslim woman was sentenced to death in Pakistan on 19 January 2022 after being convicted of sending a blasphemous text message and caricatures of Prophet Muhammad via WhatsApp, a court said.
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eshagh Mohammadamin executed in Isfahan on January 20
JANUARY 20, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Clinton Young released on bond
after almost 20 years on death row
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zabol on January 20
Parviz Akbari Rud, Jamaleddin Gorgij and Dadshah Sarani
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Edris Gomshad-Zehi executed in Zahedan Prison on January 20
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in Zahedan Prison on January 20
Khodanazar Kakar, Hosseinali Khomr, Abdolhamid Esmailzehi, Dadshah Sarani, Ataollah Barahouyi and Mehrollah Dehmardeh
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Three men executed in Zabol Prison on January 20
Mohammad Amin Dehmardeh, Parviz Akbarirad and Jamaleddin Gargij
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Yazdani executed in Rasht Prison on January 20
JANUARY 20, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR DRUG ADDICT ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS FATHER WITH 36 STAB WOUNDS
The Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation has upheld the death sentence for an Emirati man convicted of the premeditated murder of his father.
JANUARY 19, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING YOUNG SIBLINGS
The military court of the Somali Armed Forces on 4 January 2022 sentenced to death a soldier for the murder of two siblings Zakariye and Sowdo.