2022

USA - Oklahoma. Execution doctor paid $15,000 each time death penalty carried out

USA - Oklahoma. Supreme Court lets stand decision that McGirt not retroactive

EGYPT: MAN WHO BEHEADED ANOTHER IN ISMAILIA SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER GRAND MUFTI'S ADVISE SOUGHT

Ismailia Criminal Court on 5 January 2022 sentenced to death Abdel Rahman Nazmy, known as “Dabour” over charges of brutally murdering a citizen and attempting to kill two others in a crowded street in Ismailia.

PAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON BLASPHEMY CHARGES

A Christian man on 6 January 2022 was sentenced to death in Pakistan a decade after he was charged with blasphemy.

MOROCCO: CASSATION COURT CONFIRMS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPIST, KILLER OF 11-YEAR OLD ADNANE

The Court of Cassation in Rabat confirmed on 5 January 2022 the death penalty sentence for the 24-year-old man who raped and killed 11-year-old Adnane Bouchouf in Tangier in September 2020.

IRAN - Farhang and Yasser Aliollahi executed in Zanjan Prison on January 11

For drugs

RUSSIA: CHAIR OF COSTITUTIONAL COURT DISCUSSES RETURN OF DEATH PENALTY

The moratorium on capital punishment imposed in Russia in 1997 after the country joined the Council of Europe could be lifted in the future, the chairman of the country’s Constitutional Court said on 28 December 2021.

SOUTH SUDAN: MAN HANGED FOR SLAUGHTERING THREE CHILDREN

Babu Emmanuel Lokiri, the young man accused of killing the three siblings at Rock City in Juba on 1st August 2020, was hanged on 7 January 2022 afternoon in Juba.

EGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY AGAINST SIX IN 2016 TERRORIST ATTACK NEAR PYRAMIDS

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on 2 January 2022 commuted the death penalty against six defendants charged with being involved in a terrorist attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel in Giza in 2016.

IRAN - Juvenile Offender Mostafa Emdadi on Death Row

IRAN - Heydar Ghorbani officially died for “unknown reasons”

Executed on December 19

IRAN - Mohammad Rasoul Paghadam executed in Qazvin Prison on January 9

For murder

IRAN - Mohammad Javad Vafaei, International Call To Save His Life

Political Prisoner Sentenced to Death

USA - Guantánamo Bay, 20 years on

NIGERIA: KANO COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR

A Kano State High Court 15, sitting at Miller road, on 14 December 2021, sentenced one Balarabe Ahmad to death by hanging for stabbing his neighbour to death.

KUWAIT: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD AGAINST EGYPTIAN FOR KILLING SPONSOR

Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has upheld the death sentence issued earlier by a lower court against an Egyptian man after he was found guilty of premeditated murder of his Kuwaiti sponsor, Gulf News reported on 28 December 2021.

NIGERIA: ONDO STATE GOVERNOR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF SIX CONVICTS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has ordered the release of four inmates serving various terms of imprisonment from the correctional centres in the state, while six convicts sentenced to death by hanging were commuted to life imprisonment to mark t

IRAN - Mohammad Salarzehi executed in Shiraz on January 2

For drug-related offences

IRAN - Report: Iran killed 52 Kurd border porters in 2021

Hengaw says

IRAN - Javanehha's Year End Report: Record of suppression

At least 350 executions, 3800 detentions and 112 state murders

IRAN - Jalil Eshterak executed in Zabol on January 1