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
- NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 1
Amir Ghoncheh (Ghancheh), Jafar Tourjan (Turjan) and an unidentified man
NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Mulaii executed in Zanjan on November 1
OCTOBER 28, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jimmy O’Neal Spencer sentenced to death
OCTOBER 27, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING
A 31-year-old man who was found with 25 packets of heroin in his bedroom in November 2018 was given the mandatory death penalty on 27 October 2022 for drug trafficking.
OCTOBER 27, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES TWO AL-SHABAAB CONVICTS
Somali military court on 24 October 2022 executes by firing squad two Al-Shabab operatives in Mogadishu after being found guilty of murdering several people.
OCTOBER 27, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MADARIPUR MURDER CASE
A court in Madaripur on 19 October 2022 sentenced three people to death and six others to life imprisonment for killing a trader at Sadar upazila in the district in 2003.
OCTOBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Boroujerd on October 27
202nd execution of women in Iran since 2007
- OCTOBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Borujerd on October 27
202nd execution of women in Iran since 2007
OCTOBER 26, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Robert Solis sentenced to death
OCTOBER 26, 2022IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ANTI-REGIME ACTIVIST'S KILLING
An Iraqi court has sentenced a man to death over the 2019 killing of an activist who had taken part in anti-government protests that year, the judiciary said on 25 October 2022.
- OCTOBER 25, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 10 GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THREE CATTLE TRADERS IN BANDARBAN
A court in Bangladesh sentenced 10 defendants to death on October 24, 2022 in the case of the murders of three cattle traders among four people on the Alikadam-Thanchi route in the Bandarban hill district.
- OCTOBER 25, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTY
DEATH ROW PRISONERS LAUNCH LEGAL CHALLENGE TO JAPAN’S NO-NOTICE EXECUTIONS
Two prisoners sentenced to death in Japan have launched a legal challenge against how the country applies the death penalty, Vatican News reported on 24 October 2022.
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Janipour executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Protests: At least 234 Including 29 Children Killed
Families and Doctors Pressured to Confirm False Scenarios
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Valizadeh executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Mark Wilson sentenced to death
OCTOBER 24, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 9 FROM ONE FAMILY SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
An Egyptian court has sentenced nine members of one family to death after convicting them of murdering a man and mutilating his body, Gulf News reported on 22 October 2022 citing local media report.
OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 500 executed in Iran since the beginning of the year
No other country in the world carries out as many executions
OCTOBER 24, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: JUSTICE SAMUEL ASIEDU ADVOCATES ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, nominated to the Supreme Court, has advocated the abolition of the Death Penalty.
OCTOBER 24, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Death sentence, again, for Allen Cox
- OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Esfandiari executed in Barazjan on October 24
OCTOBER 24, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Scott Peterson moved off death row
- OCTOBER 23, 2022DEATH PENALTY
USA - Sept. 11 Case Awaits Biden Administration’s Reply on Plea Deal
At Guantánamo Bay
OCTOBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Zainivandnejad executed in Borujerd on October 23
OCTOBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three Baloch prisoners executed on 22 October
Mohammad Zarakzahi in Zabol, and Juma Gumshadzahi and Habil Shahnawazi in Zahedan
OCTOBER 22, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO DEATH PENALTY
An Algerian court handed a death penalty sentence this week to journalist Abderrahmane Semmar known as Abdou Semmar, Morocco World News reported on 20 October 2022.
- OCTOBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Faraji executed in Aligudarz on October 22
501 executions since the beginning of 2022
- OCTOBER 20, 2022IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA MULLS INTRODUCTION OF A ‘PROBATIONARY’ DEATH PENALTY
When Indonesia recently unveiled the latest plans to overhaul its ageing Criminal Code, one of the articles that caught everyone’s eye was the one about the death penalty.
- OCTOBER 20, 2022LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Louisiana. Kevin Daigle formally sentenced to death
OCTOBER 20, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Benjamin Cole was executed
12th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA