Archive timeline
2023
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2023, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2023
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 PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Gorgij executed in Birjand on August 13
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 PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYUSA - 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