2022

KUWAIT: 2 EXPATS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIVES

Two expatriate men, one of them still at large, have been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuwait for murdering their wives, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported.

IRAN - At least 458 people killed in the ongoing nationwide protests

Including 63 children and 29 women

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Qom on December 7

586 executions since the beginning of 2022

IRAN - Baratali Sheikhalizadeh executed in Karaj on December 7

TANZANIA: ELEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CONSERVATIONIST

A court in Tanzania on 2 December 2022 sentenced 11 people to death over the 2017 murder of renowned anti-poaching activist Wayne Lotter.

SAUDI ARABIA: SIX MORE POLITICAL DISSIDENTS SENTENCED TO DEATH

A human rights organization says the Saudi judiciary has sentenced six more prisoners of conscience to death, Press TV’s website reported on 5 December 2022.

MYANMAR: JUNTA SENTENCES SEVEN STUDENTS TO DEATH

Myanmar’s junta on 30 November 2022 handed down death sentences to seven Dagon University students in Yangon who took part in anti-regime protests.

NORTH KOREA: THREE TEENAGERS PUBLICLY EXECUTED

North Korea has publicly executed three teenagers by firing squad – two for watching and distributing South Korean movies and one for murdering his stepmother – two sources who witnessed it told Radio Free Asia.

IRAN - Nasser Omarzahi and Alireza Naroouie executed in Zahedan on December 5

IRAN - Death sentences for protesters

NIGERIA: CULTIST SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING IN EKITI

An Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced one Segun Iwaetan, to death by hanging for being a cultist and raping a 20-year-old virgin, Daily Post reported on 5 December 2022.

IRAN - Four men executed for 'intelligence cooperation' with Israel

IRAN - Heydar Hassani Maram executed in Yasui on December 4

IRAN - Gholam Rasoul Mazarzehi and Anoushirvan Omarzehi executed in Zahedan on December 4

IRAN - Woman, Mouloud Molazadeh, executed in Isfahan on December 3

IRAN - Zakaria Rigi and Hojjat Saif Panah executed in Shiraz on December 3

BANGLADESH: DEATH-ROW CONVICT HANGED AT KASHIMPUR JAIL

A death-row convict was hanged on 30 November 2022 at Kashimpur Central Jail-2 in a case filed for the murder of freedom fighter Gias Uddin in Narayanganj.

USA - Mississippi. Martez Abram sentenced to death

IRAN - Majid Mehdipour and Massoud Efati executed in Rasht on December 1

BANGLADESH: CONDEMNED CONVICT EXECUTED IN RAJSHAHI JAIL

A condemned convicted was executed in Rajshahi Central jail on 30 November 2022 night, official sources said.

IRAN - Amanullah Rakhshani executed in Sabzevar on December 1

565 executions since the beginning of the year

IRAN - Death sentence for the mother of 3

6-year-old girl shot in the eye

INDIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH BY ODISHA COURT FOR RAPING, KILLING 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL

Two persons were sentenced to death by a fast-track court in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district on 29 November 2022 for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl.

IRAN - Parviz Brahui executed in Bandar Abbas on November 30

USA - Idaho. Pizzuto’s execution canceled

State can’t find lethal drugs

IRAN - Iran To Try 10 Underage Protesters On Death Penalty Charges

IRAN - Iran sentences 4 people to death for ‘cooperating’ with Israel

Maybe even executed

USA - Missouri. Kevin Johnson was executed

37, Black

JAPAN: DEATH-ROW INMATES SEEK END TO HANGING AS INHUMANE EXECUTION

Three death-row inmates in Osaka filed a suit against the state on 29 November 2022, seeking an end to the practice of execution by hanging, claiming the method was inhumane under international conventions.

NORTH KOREA: DEATH PENALTY THREATENED FOR SPREADING COVID ‘RUMORS’

A notice posted in the North Korean capital earlier this year and seen by NK News this week warns that those who spread “rumors” about COVID-19 and Pyongyang’s quarantine policies could face the death penalty.