2023

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: FOUR ASIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

The Grand Criminal Court at the Federal Primary Court in Abu Dhabi issued a unanimous verdict to execute 4 defendants of Asian nationalities after convicting them of charges related to the importation and trafficking of drugs, Emirates 24|7 reported on Ju

IRAN - Aref Havasi executed in Ilam on June 20

IRAN - Siamak Lutfi executed in Tabriz on June 20

IRAN - Vahid Seifi executed in Tabriz on June 20

IRAN - Hadi Al-Nasser and Abbas Khanjari executed in Ahvaz on June 19

BANGLADESH: EXECUTIONER WHO HANGED 26 CONVICTS WALKS OUT OF PRISON

A jailed Bangladeshi hangman who executed more than two dozen fellow prisoners including killers and coup plotters in exchange for sentence reductions was released on June 18, 2023, officials said.

IRAN - Danesh Salari executed in Kahnuj on June 19

380 executions since the beginning of the year

IRAN - Mohsen Samadi executed in Saveh on June 19

IRAN - Ali Mula Shamsi executed on June 18 in Zanjan

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in public on June 18

In Deylam

IRAN - Fazl Ahmad Ghafran (Rukhshani) executed in Kerman on June 18

IRAN - Hamed … executed in Gorgan on June 18

IRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on June 18

Mohammad Sepahi, Fazl Ahmad Ghafran, Gholam Mir + Unk

IRAN - Mahmoud Rakhshani executed in Zahedan on June 17

IRAN - Ali Brar Kazemi executed in Shiraz on June 17

BANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER IN CUMILLA

A Cumilla court on June 14, 2023 sentenced two people to death over the murder of a man in Homna upazila in 2010.

SAUDI ARABIA: MURDERER OF SAUDI FLIGHT ATTENDANT EXECUTED

The death penalty of a Saudi murderer, who was convicted of burning alive his friend, was carried out in the Makkah region on June 15, 2023, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.

IRAN - Man (not identified) sentenced to death for killing MP

SRI LANKA: DEATH ROW CONVICT ARRESTED AFTER ALMOST 20 YEARS

A 54-year-old man who had been in hiding for almost two decades and was later sentenced to death was arrested on June 14, 2023 in Ragama.

USA - Florida. Duane Owen, 62, White, was executed

EGYPT: MAN EXECUTED ONE YEAR AFTER KILLING OF NAYERA ASHRAF

Egypt on June 14, 2023 executed the killer of university student Naiyera Ashraf, who was murdered in a heinous crime last year in an incident that rocked the country and the region.

USA - Arizona. Barry Jones Freed from Arizona’s Death Row after 29 Years

The death sentence commutes to 25 years, which the man has already served

USA - Ohio. Lamont Hunter Released

on Plea Agreement Amid Review of New Evidence

NIGERIA: RIVERS STATE COURT SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING, MURDER

Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on June 15, 2023 convicted and sentenced two middle-aged men to death by hanging for kidnapping and killing a prominent Rivers State businessman, Festus Mac-Pepple and one Friday Uranta in 2008.

IRAN - Hasan Ali Hasanpour executed in Gachsaran on June 14

IRAN - Milad Qobadi executed in Yasuj on June 14

KENYA: JUDGES RULE ON APPEAL OF MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

A court of Appeal in Kisumu on June 12, 2023 dismissed an appeal filed by a convict serving a death sentence for stealing Nokia 3110, among other valuables worth Ksh46,000.

USA - 122,840 people in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails

Why Counting Everyone in Solitary Confinement Matters

IRAN - Hamid… executed in Gohardasht on June 13

INDIA: KARNATAKA HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE TO MAN WHO KILLED FIVE INCLUDING THREE OF HIS MINOR CHILDREN

The man who killed five people including three minor children has been given a death sentence by a division bench of the Dharwad Bench of the High Court of Karnataka, Outlook India reported on June 10, 2023.