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
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 PENALTYZIMBABWE: 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.
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 PENALTYIRAN - 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.