2023

INDIA: SUPREME COURT RELEASES DEATH ROW PRISONER AFTER 28 YEARS ON FINDING HIM TO BE A JUVENILE AT THE TIME OF OFFENCE

The Supreme Court on 27 March 2023 released a death row convict upon finding that even though he was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offence he was tried as an adult and was sentenced to death.

IRAN - 1 woman and 1 man executed on March 28 in Isfahan

Maryam Najjar and Hassan Bahmani

ISRAELI SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UAE RETURNS HOME

Fida Kiwan, a Haifa native who was sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates for drug trafficking, was pardoned by the UAE and given leave to return home, according to a March 25, 2023 Walla! report.

SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT IN PUNTLAND SENTENCES 10 AL-SHABAAB CONVICTS TO DEATH

The Puntland Armed Forces Court on 26 March 2023 sentenced ten members of Al-Shabaab to death after they were found guilty of carrying out a series of bombings and assassinations in Puntland state, and for being members of the Al-Shabaab network.

PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE OVER BLASPHEMOUS CONTENT ON WHATSAPP

A Muslim man in Pakistan has been awarded a death sentence over blasphemous content on a WhatsApp group.

USA - Louisiana. Louisiana Spent $7.7 Million on Death Penalty Defense in One Year

It Hasn’t Executed Anyone in 13 Years

NIGERIA: FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING IN LAGOS

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on 23 March 2023 sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping of Mrs Gloria Emole.

USA - Idaho. Governor Brad Little signed HB 186 to execute inmates by firing squad

When lethal injection is unavailable

IRAQ: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ACTIVIST’S ABDUCTION

An Iraqi court has sentenced two men to death in absentia for the 2020 kidnapping and disappearance of an anti-government activist, the judiciary on March 22, 2023 said.

TAIWAN: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MALAYSIAN STUDENT'S KILLER

The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch Court on March 23, 2023 upheld the death sentence of a man who raped and murdered a Malaysian student of Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan in October 2020.

IRAN - A woman and four men sentenced to death for spying for Israel

Nasim Namazi, Wafa Hanareh, Aram Omari Bardiani, Rahman Parhazo and Mansour Rasouli

UGANDA: MPS PASS BILL IMPOSING DEATH PENALTY FOR HOMOSEXUALITY

MPs in Uganda have passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which would make homosexual acts punishable by death.

INDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF SUNDARRAJAN WHO MURDERED 7-YEAR-OLD BOY

The Supreme Court on March 21, 2023 commuted the death sentence of a man, who had kidnapped and killed a seven-year-old boy in Tamil Nadu in 2009, to 20-year imprisonment, saying there was “possibility of reformation” even though he has committed a ghastl

IRAN - Happy Nowruz 1402 to the political prisoners and detainees of nationwide protests

Best wishes for the new (islamic) year

BANGLADESH: 23 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR RAJIB MURDER IN MADARIPUR

A court has sentenced 23 people to death and six to life imprisonment in a case filed over the 2012 murder of Rajib Sardar in Madaripur. Four others were acquitted.

CHINA: MAN WHO KILLED WIFE EXECUTED IN HANGZHOU

Xu Guoli, who killed his wife in 2020, was executed on 21 March 2023 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, after the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court approved his death sentence, which was handed down in July 2021.

THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENCES: GLOBAL OVERVIEW 2022 (HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL)

As of December 2022, Harm Reduction International (HRI) recorded at least 285 executions for drug offences globally during the year, a 118% increase from 2021, and an 850% increase from 2020.

PAKISTAN: ZAHIR JAFFER GETS DOUBLE DEATH SENTENCE IN NOOR MUKADAM MURDER CASE

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on 13 March 2023 maintained the death sentence of accused Zahir Jaffar in the Noor Mukadam murder case, upholding the trial court's decision.

NIGERIA: 122 MALE, THREE FEMALE INMATES ON DEATH ROW IN GOMBE, BAUCHI

The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) says it has at least 125 inmates on death row in its facilities in Gombe and Bauchi states.

USA - Idaho. Senate passed HB 186 to allow firing squad

SOMALIA: THREE AL-SHABAB MILITANTS EXECUTED

A military court in Somalia on 15 March 2023 executed three al-Shabab militants it said pretended to be a doctor and soldiers to carry out bombings and shootings.

USA - Indiana. Former death row inmate Thomas Schiro released from prison

IRAN - 2 unidentified men sentenced to death in terrorist attack

On March 18

CANADA - 54% of Canadians support death penalty

IRAN - Mohiyedin Ebrahimi executed in Urmia on March 17

Kurdish political prisoner

IRAN - 5 men and 1 woman executed in Urmia on March 17

Forohar (or Ashir) Abbasnejad, Mohammad Ayoubian, Jahanbakhsh Radloui, Hassan Omari, Nasim Niazi, and Yasin Rashidi

USA - California. California to transform San Quentin from prison to rehab centre

USA - California. Press release from Governor Newsom on new prison policy

IRAN - Not identified man executed in Khorramabad on March 17

NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BIOLOGICAL FATHER IN AKWA IBOM

Akwa Ibom State High court sitting in Etinan Local Government Area has sentenced one Moses Abdon Edo, aged 37, to death by hanging for killing his biological father, Abdon Peter Edo over a plot of land, Tribune Online reported on 14 March 2023.