Chronological archive
August 2023
The 85 news items published by Hands Off Cain in August 2023, in chronological order.
IRAN - Javad Rouhi has died under suspicious circumstances
A protester sentenced to death
AUGUST 30, 2023VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: PRESIDENT REDUCES DEATH PENALTIES TO LIFE SENTENCES FOR 11 PRISONERS
President Vo Van Thuong on August 30, 2023 decided to reduce death penalties to life sentences for 11 prisoners.
AUGUST 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Sargazi and Esmaeil Hajizadeh executed in Hamedan on August 29
531 executions since the beginning of 2023
AUGUST 28, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Jarrell Neal’s death sentence overturned
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Wafa Kharamani executed in Saqqez on August 27
528 executions in Iran in 2023
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sobhan Eftekharedin executed in Aligudarz on August 27
AUGUST 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Yazdanpanah executed in Zarand on August 26
AUGUST 25, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. The state wants to be the first to execute prisoner by making them breathe pure nitrogen
AUGUST 24, 2023MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Howard M. Neal resentenced to life WITH parole
Former death row inmate
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qezel Hesar on August 23
Kiumars Rezaei, Rahman Ebrahimi and Behrouz Rahmani
AUGUST 23, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Plea negotiations could mean 9/11 defendants will not face the death penalty
The Pentagon has advised families of some of the thousands killed
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentied man executed in Mahvelat on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Karami executed in Karaj on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COUPLE'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS JAIL FOR MURDERING DAUGHTER
A married couple escaped the gallows in Malaysia after the Court of Appeal on August 23, 2023 commuted their death sentence to a maximum jail sentence of 40 years for murdering their daughter.
AUGUST 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shouresh Morovati executed in Sanandaj on August 22
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Zahedan on August 21
Abdolsamad Khadem, Yaghoub Ejbari, Mohammad Anwar Barahouyi, Esmail Ghanbarzehi and 'Mir'
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolreza Ghalavand executed in Ahvaz on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamil Abodllahzadeh and Mehran Amiri executed in Qazvin on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Narouyi executed in Kahnuj on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 21
Saeed Rigi, Abdolghafour Toumaj and Amir Rahimi
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yazdan Varehzardi executed in Ahvaz on august 21
- AUGUST 20, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - New Restorative Justice Webpage
DPIC explains the basics of restorative justice
AUGUST 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Afkhami executed in Sari on August 20
AUGUST 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Samad Shahozehi and Mahmoud Rigi executed in Zahedan on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on August 19
AUGUST 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo. Judge Acosta Throws Out Confession of Suspect as Derived From Torture
AUGUST 18, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: FOUR CONVICTED KILLERS REMOVED FROM DEATH ROW
Four convicted killers housed in the condemned section of the Port of Spain prison at Frederick Street for decades have had their death sentences vacated
- AUGUST 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ibrahim Moulodpour executed in Dezful on August 16
AUGUST 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Javadi executed in Maragheh on August 16
AUGUST 14, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN SYLHET
A Sylhet court on August 6, 2023 sentenced a man to death and fined him Tk10,000 for killing his wife in Gowainghat upazila of the district in 2021.
- AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Gorgij executed in Birjand on August 13
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AUGUST 13, 2023IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: COURT ANNULS DEATH SENTENCE IN ACADEMIC'S MURDER
An Iraqi court on July 31, 2023 overturned the death sentence handed down over the 2020 killing of prominent academic Hisham al-Hashemi and sent the case back to investigators.
AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death commission members of Summer 1988 in Iran revealed
- AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed on August 13
Abdul Ghani Arbabi, Hamed Jamshidi + Unk
AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeid Biranvand executed in Khorramabad on August 13
500 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2023
AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Khorramabad on August 13
AUGUST 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cheraghali Bamri executed in Zahedan on August 12
AUGUST 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Roghieh Abedini, executed in Hamedan on August 12
217 women executed in Iran since 2007
- AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rajai Shahr Prison Closure
Intentional Destruction of Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity
- AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Prisoner swap with USA
Siamak Namazi, Morad Tahbaz, Emad Sharqi + 2 Unk.
AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Karimdadzehi and Hamid Garkhil executed Mashhad on August 10
489 executions in 2023
AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Rahimihedayat executed in Hamedan on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Barahouyi and Ahmad Narouyi executed in Mashhad on August 10
- AUGUST 10, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Louisiana. Pardon Board complies with Governor's request for clemency hearings
AUGUST 10, 2023GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR OFFERING SON AS SACRIFICE
An Accra High Court has sentenced to death a 33-year-old man for throwing his two-year-old son into the sea at Akuma Village, Accra, as sacrifice in his bid to become rich, Ghana News Agency reported on August 10, 2023.
- AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Marand on August 9
Identities not disclosed
AUGUST 9, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR IN KWARA
Justice S. M. Akanbi of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on July 31, 2023 sentenced one Mohammed Kazeem Beiwa to death for the murder of his neighbour identified as Olokose Ojo Olushola in Ilorin a few days before his wedding in 2021.
AUGUST 9, 2023IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: TOP COP'S DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER COMMUTED TO LIFE IN PRISON
A senior police official sentenced to death for murdering his bodyguard has had his punishment commuted to life in prison by Indonesia's Supreme Court, an official said August 8, 2023.
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Khazaei and Ahad Hashemi executed in Hamedan on August 9
AUGUST 9, 2023OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Caron Montgomery taken off death row
AUGUST 9, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Facundo Chavez, 32, Hispanic, sentenced to death
AUGUST 9, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana - Governor Edwards Directs Board to Consider Death Row Clemency Petitions
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asadollah Arjomand (Arjmand) executed in Yasuj on August 9
- AUGUST 8, 2023Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING YOUNG GIRL
A Congolese woman on August 5, 2023 was sentenced to death for the murder of a girl whose mutilated body was found near a river in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
AUGUST 8, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER ACCUSED AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
Additional Session Judge Rehmat Ali awarded the death penalty to an accused of murder case in Multan on July 21, 2023.
AUGUST 8, 2023GermanyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Germany Intensifies Efforts To Release Jamshid Sharmahd
AUGUST 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Nasirian and Hassan Ali Shakib executed in Shiraz on August 8
AUGUST 7, 2023Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: 7 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ‘COLLABORATION’ WITH ISRAEL
A military court in the Gaza Strip on August 6, 2023 sentenced seven people to death by hanging for “collaboration” with Israel, the coastal enclave’s Hamas-run interior ministry said.
AUGUST 7, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: TWO TO HANG FOR KILLING SIBU SENIOR CITIZEN TO GET DRUG MONEY
Two men were sentenced to the gallows by the Sibu High Court on July 31, 2023 for robbing and murdering a senior citizen for money to buy drugs.
AUGUST 7, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF TWO-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A court in Gujarat’s Surat city on August 2, 2023 awarded death sentence to a 23-year-old man for the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl in February.
AUGUST 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Ghafar Shahiki + Unk executed in Kerman on August 7
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- AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on August 6
Amir Jahangiri, Javad Bazgari, Sajjad Nazari and Mohsen Sharafi (Sharfi)
AUGUST 6, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: S. KOREAN DRUG OFFENDER EXECUTED, FIRST IN 9 YEARS
China on August 4, 2023 executed a South Korean man who was sentenced to death for selling a large amount of drugs, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jabar Moslemi executed in Qazvin on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Eslami executed in Nishapur on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Kazemi + Unk executed in Arak on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Hashemi executed in Karaj on August 6
AUGUST 4, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. James Phillip Barnes, 61, White, was executed
On August 4
AUGUST 3, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED OVER DRUGS IN THIRD HANGING IN WEEK
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city state’s fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on August 3, 2023.
AUGUST 3, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER PARTY CHIEF OF HANGZHOU SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR BRIBERY
Zhou Jiangyong, former Party chief of Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province, was sentenced on July 25, 2023 to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery.
AUGUST 3, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: TWO FOREIGNERS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF GRAB DRIVER
Two foreigners were sentenced to death by the High Court in Shah Alam on July 28, 2023 after they were found guilty of the murder of a local Grab driver five years ago.
AUGUST 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. U.S. District Judge Robert Colville imposed the death sentence on Robert Bowers
- AUGUST 2, 2023Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: THE SOLDIER RESPONSIBLE FOR A FAMILY MASSACRE SENTENCED TO DEATH
A soldier was sentenced to death on July 26, 2023 for a family massacre that killed 13 people on July 22 in Ituri, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
AUGUST 2, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN 22 YEARS AGO
A Syllhet Divisional Special Judge Court on July 24, 2023 sentenced four people to death for killing a man in Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet 22 years ago.
AUGUST 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on August 2
Mohammad Javad Akbari, Sharif Akbari and Kianoush Teymouri
- AUGUST 1, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH HANGS TWO CONVICTS IN 2006 MURDER OF RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY’S PROF TAHER
The Rajshahi Central Jail authorities on July 27, 2023 hanged two death row convicts in the 2006 murder of Professor S Taher Ahmed, a teacher of Rajshahi University’s geology and mining department.
AUGUST 1, 2023IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Iraqi court on July 25, 2023 issued the death sentence for a suspected drug dealer, reported state media.
AUGUST 1, 2023MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Johnny Johnson, 45, White, was executed
On August 1, 2023
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Baboli Bahmai executed in Ahvaz on August 1
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Badrouzeh executed in Birjand on August 1
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on August 1
Hossein Gomashadzehi, Yousef Kalbali + Unk
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ruhollah Azizi executed in Arak on August 1
- AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Eshaghzehi executed in Zabol on August 1
- AUGUST 1, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal. Jury Sentence Robert Bowers to Death
For 2018 Synagogue Shooting