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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 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
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 PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYSRI 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 PENALTYIRAN - 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.