2023

IRAN - Shahrooz Sokhanvari executed in Gohardasht on May 20

IRAN - 1 more execution in Ghezel-Hesar on May 20

Shahram Sharqi

IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 20

Saeed Garavand, Samad Garavand, and Shahab Mansourinesb Garavand

IRAN - Asif Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on May 20

295 executions since the beginning of the year

SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES TWO MEN IN BAIDOA

Somali military court in Baidoa executed two men by firing squad in Baidoa on the morning of May 18, 2023.

IRAN - Shaban Yousefi executed in Gohardasht on May 20

IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on May 19

Yaghoub Hassani, Mazhar Davari, Ali Mehrdel, Kazem Ghofrankhah

USA - Alabama. Joseph Clifton Smith cannot be executed due to intellectual disability

IRAN - Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi executed in Isfahan on 19 May

Accused of a 'political' crime

USA - Ohio. New trial ordered for Lamont Hunter

Who spent 15 years on death row

IRAN - Mustafa Salehi executed in Sanandaj on May 18

THAILAND: MAYOR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER LAND ACTIVIST’S MURDER

The Lower Court sentenced the former Mayor of Wang Wiset district to the death penalty on May 17, 2023 over the murder of a lawyer and land rights activist in Trang province, southern Thailand, two years ago.

PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING FATHER

A Pakistani District and Sessions Court on May 17, 2023 awarded death sentence to an accused involved in the murder of his father.

IRAN - Jamshid Kaimi executed in Sanandaj on May 18

IRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on May 18

Hossein Poursheikh, Omid Jan Abadi, Nabiollah Zaboli + Unk

IRAN - Cousins Mostafa and Farhad Vafayi executed in Rasht on May 18

IRAN - 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 18

Ali Khoramshah Amrayi, Najaf Soleiman Reshad, Firouz Yarinejad + Unk

IRAN - Nader Rigi executed in Jiroft on May 18

IRAN - An man Afghan executed in Gohardasht on 18 May

Identified as Saeed, or Masoud

USA - North Dakota (Federal). Life in prison for Alfonso Rodriguez

SINGAPORE EXECUTES SECOND PRISONER IN 3 WEEKS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Singapore on May 17, 2023 hanged a man for trafficking drugs, authorities said, in the city state’s second execution in three weeks.

NIGERIA: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN EKITI

The Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on May 15, 2023 sentenced three men to death by hanging for conspiracy and armed robbery in the state.

USA - Federal. Sayfullo Saipov formally sentenced to 10 life sentences

IRAN - Borzu Chaqazardi and Saeed Najafi executed in Kermanshah on May 17

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR FORMING TERRORIST GROUP TO CARRY OUT ATTACKS WITHIN KINGDOM

A Saudi national in al-Qassim was executed on May 15, 2023 for forming and orchestrating a terrorist group.

MYANMAR: MILITARY COUNCIL ADOPTS ARMS ACT THAT CARRIES DEATH PENALTY

The military council on May 11, 2023 enacted the Arms Act, which can impose a minimum sentence of six months to life imprisonment or the death penalty if anyone is found guilty of illegally carrying a weapon and violates any prohibitions.

IRAN - Sha’aban Yousefi executed in Gorgan on May 16

IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qezel Hesar on May 10

ZIMBABWE: MNANGAGWA GRANTS AMNESTY TO THOUSANDS OF NON-VIOLENT INMATES

An amnesty has been granted to thousands of prisoners serving time for non-violent offences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa exercising executive clemency to release inmates who had served at least one third of their jail term

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED IN EASTERN PROVINCE FOR MURDERING EX-WIFE

A Saudi national in the Eastern Province was executed on May 13, 2023 for killing his ex-wife, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).