2023

IRAN - Mousa and Ehsan Gorgij executed in Bandarabbas on May 2

INDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO KILLED SISTER AND HER LOVER

India’s Supreme Court on April 28, 2023 commuted the death sentence of a man to life sentence, namely Digambar who murdered his sister along with her lover.

NIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES FOUR MEN TO DEATH BY HANGING IN JIGAWA

A Jigawa State High Court sitting in Ringim on April 28, 2023 sentenced four men to death by hanging for murder.

GHANA: ASABKE ALANDI SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ADAMS MAHAMA’S MURDER

An Accra High Court has sentenced to death Asabke Alandgi, one of two persons accused of the murder of Adams Mahama, a former Upper East Regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Pulse reported on 28 April 2023.

IRAN - Mohammad Malek Dadzahi executed in Mashhad on May 2

IRAN - Hossein Vahedi Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 1

IRAN - Aminollah Karimi Ghaljayi executed in Mashhad on May 1

USA - Florida. DeSantis signs death penalty and crime bills

As 2024 run looms

IRAN - Gul Mohammad Naroi executed in Zahedan on April 30

SINGAPORE: DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED OR HEROIN DEALER

The Singapore Court of Appeal changed the death sentence of a heroin dealer to 10 years in prison on April 26, 2023, the same day that Singaporean Indian man Tangaraju Suppiah was executed for allegedly abetting in the trafficking of 1kg of marijuana (can

IRAN - Feizollah Kavandi executed in Isfahan on April 30

IRAN - Jaber Aminifar executed in Birjand on April 30

IRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Birjand on April 30

Mrs. Madina Sabzevan, Mohammad Shibak, Abdullah Zarouzhi

IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Zahedan on April 29

IRAN - Mahmoud Rahmani executed in Iranshahr on April 29

IRAN - Eid Mohammad Shadman executed on April 29

Not clear whether in Iranshahr or Zahedan

IRAN - 2 men executed in Zahedan on April 29

Nematollah Rigi Ladiz and Abdolsattar Shahuzehi

USA - Florida. Michael Wayne Jones formally sentenced to death

PAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE

The Sindh High Court on April 17, 2023 commuted the death sentence handed down to a man into life imprisonment in a triple murder case.

THAILAND: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE ON SCHOOL DIRECTOR FOR FATAL GOLD SHOP ROBBERY

The Thai Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty imposed by two lower courts on the former director of a primary school, who was found guilty of robbing a gold shop in Lop Buri province, killing three people and injuring another in the process.

IRAN - KHRN annual report on the situation of human rights in Iran

Focused on the Kurdish ethnic group

KENYA: SENTENCE OF MAN CONVICTED OF ROLE IN BRITON’S MURDER IS QUASHED

A man found guilty of being part of a gang of pirates who murdered a British tourist 12 years ago has had his conviction quashed by Kenya’s high court.

USA - Oklahoma. Board denies clemency for Glossip

Against the advice of the Attorney General

USA - Alabama. Steven Mulkey sentenced to death

SINGAPORE: MAN HANGED FOR TRAFFICKING 1KG OF CANNABIS

Singapore on April 26, 2023 hanged 46-year-old Indian-origin Tangaraju Suppiah who was found guilty in 2018 of trafficking more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of cannabis, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from his family and activists.

YEMEN: FOUR JOURNALISTS ON DEATH ROW RELEASED IN PRISONER EXCHANGE

Journalists Tawfiq Al-Mansoori, Abdul Khaleq Amran, Akram Al-Waleedi and Hareth Humaid, who had been sentenced to death for their journalistic work, have been released as part of a prisoner exchange on 16 April 2023, they had spent eight years behind bars

IRAN - Jamshid Sharmahd’s death sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court

German-Iranian citizen

IRAN - Plea to Save Ahmadreza Djalali

Iranian-Swedish Scholar in Death Row

IRAN - Mohammad Chahargosheh executed in Gohardasht on April 24

IRAN - Ahmad Nikouyi executed in Gohardasht on April 24