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 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Eshaghzehi executed in Zabol on August 1
AUGUST 1, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. Jury Sentence Robert Bowers to Death
For 2018 Synagogue Shooting
JULY 31, 2023MoroccoDEATH PENALTYMOROCCO: 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