Chronological archive
July 2023
The 95 news items published by Hands Off Cain in July 2023, in chronological order.
MOROCCO: KING MOHAMMED VI GRANTS ROYAL PARDON TO 2,052 CONVICTS
On the occasion of the Throne Day, King Mohammed VI has granted a royal pardon to 2,052 people sentenced by different Moroccan courts, said a statement released by the Ministry of Justice on July 29, 2023.
JULY 31, 2023Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two drug dealers were sentenced to death and several others were given life in prison by the Appeal and Military Courts in Gaza on July 25, 2023.
JULY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on July 31
Saeed (Aref) Barahouyi, Ali Barahouyi and Khodarahm Mohammadani
JULY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahim Ghaljaei executed in Birjand on July 31
JULY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asadollah Amini (also Asadullah Bahrami) executed in Zabol on July 31
JULY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bidollah Gorgij executed in Zahedan on July 30
JULY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahsavar Shahriari executed in Zahedan on July 30
JULY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Asgarinia executed in Qom on July 30
JULY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Arbab executed in Zabol on July 30
- JULY 28, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE EXECUTES A WOMAN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 19 YEARS
Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on July 28, 2023 and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.
- JULY 27, 2023KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT EXECUTES FIVE, INCLUDING MAN INVOLVED IN MOSQUE BOMBING THAT KILLED 26
Kuwait put to death five people on July 27, 2023 including a man convicted of involvement in a 2015 ISIS group suicide bombing that killed 26 people, the Public Prosecution said.
JULY 27, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 'WAR CRIMES'
A local court in Bangladesh, formed to try "war criminals," on July 20, 2023 delivered death sentences to four men for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Bangladesh independence war in 1971.
JULY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh sentenced for letter to the UN Secretary-General
JULY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk executed in Bandar Abbas on uncertain date
JULY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoud Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 26
JULY 26, 2023GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Ghana's parliament on July 25, 2023 voted to abolish the death penalty, making the country the latest of several African nations that have moved to repeal capital punishment in recent years.
JULY 26, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING, A WOMAN SET TO BE EXECUTED THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, a 56-years-old Singaporean Malay man, was hanged on July 26, 2023 at dawn at Changi Prison in Singapore.
JULY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran court quashes Mohammad Ghobadlou death sentence
Convicted of killing a policeman during nationwide protests last year
JULY 25, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2011 MURDER
Trinity Lewis, also known as "Prack," on July 22, 2023 was sentenced to hang by Justice Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo after she found him guilty of murdering Mark Anthony Songui on December 1, 2011, at Upper First Trace, Maingot Road, Tunapuna.
JULY 25, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: TWO SAUDI NATIONALS EXECUTED FOR KILLING PARENTS, SIBLINGS
Two Saudi nationals were executed on July 24, 2023 in Mecca for killing their parents and siblings, the Kingdom’s Ministry of Interior said.
JULY 24, 2023KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: RUTO REDUCES SENTENCES FOR ALL DEATH ROW CONVICTS
President William Ruto on July 21, 2023 reduced the death sentence for all capital offenders to a life sentence.
JULY 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Joe Biden is breaking his promise to end the federal death penalty
- JULY 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Qom on uncertain date
Likely on July 22
- JULY 21, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTY
ITALY - Falun Gong demonstrated in Rome
Outside the Embassy of China
JULY 21, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. James Barber, 64, White, was executed
- JULY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: POLITICAL PRISONER MOHAMMAD JAVAD VAFA’I THANI SENTENCED TO DEATH
A judge at Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, capital of the northeastern Razavi Khorasan Province, on July 19, 2023 sentenced to death Mohammad Javad Vafa’i Thani.
JULY 20, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING TRADER IN GOPALGANJ
Three persons on July 10, 2023 were awarded with death penalty for killing a trader named Lutfor Rahman in Tungipara of Gopalganj.
JULY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Deris at Grave Risk of Execution
One of the participants in the November 2019 protests over the price of gasoline
JULY 20, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Jemaine Cannon, now 51, Black, was executed
JULY 20, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: RELIEF FOR KENYAN WOMAN FACING DEATH SENTENCE
The Court of Appeal in Malaysia on July 20, 2023 handed a Kenyan woman a lesser sentencing after reviewing her case in which she was found guilty of trafficking drugs and other illegal substances.
- JULY 19, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF CHILD
A Zimbabwean High Court Judge on July 12, 2023 sentenced two convicted murderers to death for the killing of a 7-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, three years ago in the country’s Mashonaland East Province in rural Murewa area.
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JULY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful
Date of execution not specified
JULY 19, 2023DEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Demarcus Sears Wins Sentencing Redo
JULY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Czech Republic will extradite a Georgian national over a plot to kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad
JULY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad-Javad Vafaie Sani sentenced to death
Political prisoner
JULY 18, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: TWO NATIONALS EXECUTED AFTER SHOOTING POLICEMAN, SECURITY VEHICLE
Two Saudi Arabian nationals on July 16, 2023 were executed in Saudi Arabia after they shot at a policeman and a security vehicle while covering for armed suspects.
JULY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghasem Seyed Hosseini executed in Urmia on July 18
JULY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Mansour Seyyedi, Moslem Havasi and Siamak Hayatbini executed in Karaj on July 18
JULY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habibollah Ilkhani executed on 18 July in Kermanshah
JULY 18, 2023OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Ohio Joins 15 Other States Without an Execution in 5 Years
JULY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amad Moghadam and Saeed Almasi executed on 18 July in Hamadan
JULY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Ahar on July 18
- JULY 17, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: KINDERGARTEN TEACHER EXECUTED FOR POISONING 25 STUDENTS, KILLING 1
A kindergarten teacher found to have poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed, according to a court in central China.
- JULY 17, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: BOYFRIEND, PASTOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF LASU STUDENT
An Osun State High Court, sitting in Ikire, on July 17, 2023 sentenced a Pastor, Philip Segun, 42-year-old and Owolabi Adeeko, 23-year-old to death for the murder of one Favour Daley Oladele.
JULY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sangar Khezri executed in Naghdeh on July 17
JULY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Yaqouti and Hamzeh Farrokhi executed in Hamedan on July 17
JULY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Emami executed in in Sari on July 17
JULY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faramarz Nezami and Asghar Rahimian executed in Zanjan on July 17
JULY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Hamadan on July 17
JULY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aydin Emami executed in Zanjan on July 17
- JULY 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholam Sediq Hormozi executed in Bandar Abbas on July 16
JULY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jahedullah Maaruf (Jahedollah Marouf) executed in Isfahan on July 15
- JULY 13, 2023KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA: DEATH ROW SUSPECT SET FREE OVER GIRLFRIEND'S CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE
Kenya Court of Appeal on July 7, 2023 granted the appeal of a man who had been sentenced to death for armed robbery.
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghaedi and Sadegh Mahmoodi Baram executed publicly on July 13
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Jiroft on July 13
Mehdi Shariati, Rashid Dehmordeh, and “Salarifar”
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Dolkhani and Amir Islamdoost executed in Urmia on July 13
JULY 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal death penalty ban reintroduced in Congress
JULY 12, 2023KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR TWO MEN WHO VIOLENTLY ROBBED WOMAN
An Eldoret Court on July 5, 2023 sentenced to death two men for the offence of robbery with violence.
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fatemeh Yousef Abadi, a woman, executed in Gohardasht on July 12
JULY 12, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE BROTHERS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FATHER
A Cumilla court has sentenced three brothers to death penalty for beating their father to death at Monohorganj of the district. They were also fined Tk 20,000 each.
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Hosseinpour executed in Maku on July 12
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JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Zarouni executed in Ilam on July 12
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on July 12
- JULY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bakhtiar Cheraghi executed in Kermanshah on July 11
JULY 11, 2023LaosDEATH PENALTYLAOS: WEAK LAWS MEAN DEATH-ROW INMATES WON’T FACE EXECUTION ANYTIME SOON
More than 500 prison inmates have been sentenced to death in Laos – some more than a decade ago – but the country’s dysfunctional legal system and unclear prison procedures have left the inmates languishing for years, the country’s minister of public secu
- JULY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Musa Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 11
JULY 11, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Leslie Van Houten, follower of Charles Manson, released from prison
- JULY 10, 2023Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: TWO ALLEGED ASSASSINS SUMMARILY EXECUTED IN JUNTA CUSTODY
Myanmar’s military reportedly killed two individuals affiliated with the country’s anti-coup armed resistance movement on July 6, 2023 in an apparent summary execution.
JULY 10, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2001 MURDER OF GARDENER IN DHAKA
A Dhaka court has handed down the death sentence to two people in a decades-old case over the murder of a nursery gardener in Dhaka's Cantonment area.
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hadi Shahuzehi executed in Kerman on June 9
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 women executed in Isfahan on July 9
Monireh Sayadat and Farzieh Shokrollahi
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Alizehi executed in Zahedan on June 9
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two unidentified men executed in Arak on July 9
- JULY 9, 2023Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
SRI LANKA: NIGERIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A Nigerian national who was found guilty for possession and trafficking 249.19g of Cocaine on July 6, 2023 was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.
JULY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeem Hashem Ghotali hanged in public on July 8
Afghan citizens charged with terrorism
JULY 7, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Patrick Crusius, who killed 23 people, sentenced to 90 life terms
Crusius is White
JULY 6, 2023JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF RELATIVE
The Court of Cassation has upheld a June 2022 Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to death after he was convicted of murdering a 69-year-old relative in June 2021, The Jordan Times reported on July 5, 2023.
JULY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Rashgi and Saber Moghadami executed in Adel Abad on July 6
- JULY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mousa Hakimi executed in Qom on July 6
JULY 6, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Brian Horn sentenced to death
- JULY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - UN: Iran Must Stop Executions Of Protesters
JULY 5, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DELTA MONARCH PROPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFICERS
The Dein of Agbor Kingdom in Delta State, Benjamin Keagborekuzi, on July 4, 2023 proposed the death penalty for any public officer in Nigeria, found guilty of embezzling and diverting public funds.
JULY 5, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. AG supports petition of Eugene Glossip to the US Supreme Court
JULY 5, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: LAW FOR REVIEW OF DEATH SENTENCE NOT IN FORCE YET, SAYS RAMKARPAL
Close to 1,000 prisoners on death row or serving natural life jail terms will have to wait before filing applications to the Federal Court for a review of their sentences under a law passed by Parliament recently, Free Malaysia Today reported on July 4, 2
- JULY 4, 2023JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN OVER MURDERS
The Japanese Supreme Court on July 3, 2023 upheld the death sentence for a man convicted over the deaths of three people, scrapping his appeal to finalize the ultimate penalty handed down to him in earlier district and high court rulings.
JULY 4, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: LAW TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY TAKES EFFECT ON JULY 4
The Abolition of the Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023 (Act 846) will come into force in Malaysia on July 4, 2023.
JULY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on July 4
Names not known
JULY 3, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN, FOUR SAUDIS EXECUTED FOR TERRORISM
Saudi Arabia on July 3, 2023 put to death five people convicted of carrying out a deadly attack on a house of worship, state media said, the biggest group execution this year.
JULY 3, 2023North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: TWO WOMEN EXECUTED IN S. HWANGHAE PROVINCE FOR WATCHING S. KOREAN PROGRAMS
Earlier this month, two female farm workers in Chongdam County, South Hwanghae Province, were publicly executed for breaking the channel lock on their television and secretly watching South Korean programs, Daily NK has learned.
- JULY 2, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: WIFE KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SHANGHAI
A man who killed his wife and then attempted to hide her body in a freezer in Shanghai was sentenced to death on June 29, 2023.
JULY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasser Golzardian executed in Khorramabad on July 2
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- JULY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, Afsaneh Shahiki, executed in Kerman on July 2
213 women executed since 2007
JULY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Salimi executed in Qazvin on July 2
396 executions since the beginning of 2023
JULY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Abdoli and Mojtaba Chegeni executed in Karaj on July 1
JULY 1, 2023GermanyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - German Party Leader Refused Visit To Condemned German-Iranian Citizen
Friedrich Merz will not meet Jamshid Sharmahd