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
APRIL 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mojahed Kourkour Sentenced to Death
Cover-up for the state killing of 10 years-old boy Kian Pirfalak
APRIL 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH, FOUR JAILED OVER RAPE OF COLLEGE STUDENT IN NATORE
A Natore court on April 5, 2023 sentenced six people to death and four others to life in prison in a case over the gang-rape of a college student after abduction in the district’s Singra Upazila.
APRIL 5, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING IN JIGAWA
Three men have been handed a death sentence by a Jigawa State High Court, No. 8 sitting in Kaugama Local Government Area on March 31, 2023, for armed robbery and murder.
APRIL 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on April 5
ousef Juma Hosseini, Kazem Rasouli, and Ali Hossein Sadeghzadeh
APRIL 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - In Iranian year 1401, at least 701 prisoners were executed in Iran’s prisons
The Persian Year 1401 goes from March 21 2022 to March 20, 2023
APRIL 5, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. House passes bill barring the death penalty for mentally ill defendants
House Bill 727
APRIL 4, 2023Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: HAMAS SENTENCES TWO GAZANS TO DEATH FOR ISRAEL 'COLLABORATION'
A military court in the Gaza Strip convicted on 3 April 2023 six people of "collaboration" with Israel, sentencing two of them to death.
APRIL 4, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED DURING MUSLIM HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN
Saudi Arabia has executed a man during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which a rights group said on 3 April 2023 had not occurred in years.
APRIL 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report on 200 Days of Protest Repression
List of at Risk Protesters
APRIL 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Haroddin Shokri executed in Qom on April 4
APRIL 3, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: LOWER HOUSE VOTES TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY
The Dewan Rakyat, or lower house, of Malaysia’s Parliament on 3 April 2023 approved legal reforms to abolish the mandatory death penalty for some offences.
APRIL 3, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: AT LEAST 8 YOUNG MEN FACE IMMINENT EXECUTION AS COURT UPHOLDS SENTENCES
Saudi media outlets and human rights organizations said that at least 8 young men are facing danger of imminent execution after the Court of Appeal had upheld the sentences against them, Shia Waves reported on April 1, 2023.
APRIL 3, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES TWO MEN TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRICYCLE RIDER
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Kubwa on March 31, 2023 sentenced two men, Yahuza Isah and Auwalu Mohammed, to death by hanging for killing a tricycle rider.
APRIL 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - One-time supporter of Guantánamo's military court now says it was 'doomed'
Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson
- APRIL 2, 2023North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREAN EXECUTIONS AND TORTURE ALLEGED IN NEW REPORT
North Korea executes people for sharing South Korean media, religious activities and drugs as the country stifles its citizens’ human rights and freedom, according to a report published on 30 March 2023 by South Korea.
APRIL 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 48 Kurdish citizens executed during the first three months of 2023
APRIL 1, 2023ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Gov. Katie Hobbs has been ordered to appear in court Thursday in her efforts to halt executions
The Aaron Gunches' case
MARCH 31, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Former death row inmate J.B. Parker to serve life term
MARCH 31, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. House Judiciary Committee approved HB 555
To eliminate unanimous jury recommendations
- MARCH 30, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWEANS START DEBATE ON ENDING DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe’s government has started two weeks of nationwide consultations on whether to abolish capital punishment for people convicted of premeditated murder.
- MARCH 30, 2023DEATH PENALTY
USA - Exonerated Central Park 5 Member Reacts to Trump Indictment
Yusef Salaam
MARCH 30, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY LARKANA COURT FOR KILLING POLICEMAN
The Model Criminal Trial Court, Larkana, on 29 March 2023 awarded death sentence to three suspects and imposed on them Rs1,500,000 fine each after finding them guilty of killing a police constable Nadeem Lashari over a land dispute.
MARCH 30, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DOMESTIC STAFF SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING GRANDMA, DAUGHTER
A domestic staff, Joseph Ogbu, was sentenced to death by hanging on 27 March 2023 for killing his employer, an 89-year-old grandmother, Ajoke, and her daughter, Oreoluwa, in their home in Lagos.
MARCH 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sahand Noor Mohammadzadeh Death Sentence Overturned
Protester’s Sentence Replaced By Imprisonment
MARCH 30, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Senate OKs SB 450, easier path to imposing death penalty
MARCH 29, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: ‘DON’T ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY’, PROFESSOR MUZAFFAR SAYS
The government should consider retaining the death penalty for serious and heinous crimes, Dr Muzaffar Syah Mallow said on 26 March 2023.
MARCH 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING STEP-BROTHERS
A court in Cumilla sentenced a man to death on 27 March 2023 for the murder of his two step brothers in 2016 in the district’s Sadar Dakshin upazila.
MARCH 29, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Governor John Bel Edwards Announces His Opposition to the Death Penalty
MARCH 29, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 4 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2008 JAIPUR SERIAL BLASTS ACQUITTED BY HIGH COURT
The Rajasthan high court on 29 March 2023 acquitted four men sentenced to death by a trial court for nine blasts that went off in Jaipur in May 2008, killing 71 people and injuring over 170.
- MARCH 28, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: BILL TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY TABLED FOR FIRST READING
The Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill 2023 was tabled for first reading in the Dewan Rakyat (Lower House) on 27 March 2023.