2022

IRAN - Iran sentences to death 6th person over protests

IRAN - Hakim Dehmardeh executed in Taibad on November 19

PAKISTAN: DUAL NATIONAL WAJIHA SWATI’S HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

Rizwan Habib, the widower of and prime accused in the murder of Wajiha Swati, was sentenced to death and 10 years imprisonment on 12 November 2022.

BANGLADESH: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CUMILLA FOR 2018 RAPE FOLLOWED BY MURDER

A tribunal in Cumilla on 8 November 2022 sentenced two men to death for killing a 10-year-old girl after rape in Monohargonj upazila in 2018.

USA - Alabama. Alabama Tries and Fails to Execute Kenneth Smith

USA - Oklahoma. Richard Fairchild, 63, White, was executed

IRAN - Abbas Abdollahi and Fariborz Shahbazi executed in Rasht on November 17

IRAN - Three protestors were sentenced to death

Arrested in Tehran

IRAN - Saeed Moulai executed in Hamedan on November 16

IRAN - Amin Abil executed in Mashhad on November 17

KUWAIT: SEVEN PEOPLE HANGED IN FIRST EXECUTIONS SINCE 2017

Kuwait put seven people to death in a mass execution on November 16, 2022, the state-run KUNA news agency confirmed, making it the first execution since 2017 despite appeals from human rights organisations for clemency.

BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DRUGS CASE IN GOPALGANJ

A Gopalganj court on 13 November 2022 has given death sentence to four people in a drugs scase.

IRAN - Shahab … executed in Mashhad on November 16

USA - Texas. Stephen Barbee, 55, White, was executed

The execution was prolonged while officials searched for a vein

IRAN - Nasser Dehmardeh executed in Birjand on November 16

USA - Arizona. Murray Hooper, 76, Black, was executed

IRAN - Iran tried to assassinate British residents 10 times this year

MI5 reveals

JAPAN: JUSTICE MINISTER RESIGNS AFTER DEATH PENALTY QUIP

Japan's justice minister stepped down on November 11 evening, becoming the second minister to leave Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet over a scandal in less than a month and forcing a last-minute delay for the embattled premier's Asia tour.

IRAN - Ismail Faqirdadzehi executed in Zahedan on November 17

PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH FOR ATTACK TARGETING CHINESE ENGINEERS

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has awarded death sentences to two men accused of killing 13 people in a suicide attack last year, including nine Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project.

USA - Rasmussen Reports poll: 46% in favour of death penalty, 28% against, 26% abstentions

KENYA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEALING FROM A BODA BODA RIDER

Moses Kirimi, a man who posed as a passenger and stole from a Boda Boda Rider has been sentenced to death in Kenya, Nairobi Gossip Club reported on 3 November 2022.

IRAN - Execution of two prisoners in Torbat Jam prison on November 14

Mohammad Nabi Soleimani (Rigi) and Abdullah Sufi (Golmir Rigi)

IRAN - Dawood Bahrami executed in Hamadan on November 14

USA - Alabama. Jimmy Spencer sentenced to death

USA - Gallup poll: 55% Support Death Penalty, 42% against, 3% abstentions.

DEATH PENALTY: UN SUPPORT TO A MORATORIUM GROWS TO 126 MEMBER STATES

International support grew at the United Nations for a moratorium on executions.

INDIA: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS 3 MEN ON DEATH ROW FOR DELHI TEEN’S RAPE-MURDER

The Supreme Court of India on 7 November 2022 acquitted three men sentenced to death in the brutal gangrape-cum-murder of a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawla in 2012.

IRAN - Sultan Seifi executed in Qom on November 13

IRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on November 13

Vali Roudini, Mohsen Anshini and Emam Bakhsh Narouyi