2023

TUNISIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DEADLY BLAST NEAR US EMBASSY

A Tunisian court has condemned to death two nationals of the North African country for a 2020 suicide attack that killed a policeman near the United States embassy, local media said on 14 March 2023.

USA - North Dakota. Federal prosecutors will not seek death for Alfonso Rodriguez

JAPAN: HIGH COURT ORDERS RETRIAL OF LONGEST-SERVING DEATH ROW CONVICT OVER 1966 MURDER CASE

The world’s longest-serving death row convict was on 13 March 2023 granted a retrial by a Japanese court in the latest twist in a legal saga dating back to the 1960s.

MALAYSIA: DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY SIBU HIGH COURT

A drug dealer on 13 March 2023 was sentenced to death by Sibu High Court.

SAUDI ARABIA: JORDANIAN MAN EXECUTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY GIVING FORCED CONFESSION

Saudi Arabia has executed a Jordanian man whose family say he was tortured into confessing to drugs charges, BBC reported on 13 March 2023.

INDIA: SEVEN RAPE CONVICTS GOT DEATH PENALTIES WITHIN 100 DAYS IN SURAT, SAYS GUJARAT HOME MINISTER

Within 100 days, seven persons have been given death penalty in rape cases in Surat, Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi told the state legislature on 11 March 2023.

BELARUS APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR OFFICIALS CONVICTED OF HIGH TREASON

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a law on 9 March 2023 allowing for the use of the death penalty against officials and army servicemen convicted of high treason, his office said.

IRAN - Over 82,000 people have been granted amnesty

Including nearly 23,000 protesters

USA - Sayfullo Saipov sentenced to life in prison without parole

USA - Florida. Michael Renard Jackson sentenced to life in prison without parole

IRAN - Over 100 individuals arrested for school gas attacks

IRAN - Supreme court has upheld the death sentence of Habib Farajollah Chaab

IRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz on March 12

Tohid Ramezani, Nabi Langrani

IRAN - Ali Mekhan Seyfi executed in Kermanshah on March 12

158 executions since the beginning of the year

IRAN - Salman Momeni executed in Arak on March 12

IRAN - 4 men executed in Khorramabad on March 11

Zafar Hadipour, Nader Ebrahimpour, Younes Koulemrazi + Unk.

IRAN - 4 men executed in Urmia on March 10

Sardar Jalalifar, Saleh Ghassemi, Mansour Abdizadeh + Unk

IRAN - Hossein Pourfayaz executed in Urmia on March 10

IRAN - Ahmad Bajizehi executed in Shiraz on March 10

SRI LANKA: FIVE PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2014 MURDER

Five persons were sentenced to death on 8 March 2023 in Sri Lanka for murder.

USA - Texas. Arthur Brown Jr., 52, Black, was executed

9th inmate put to death this year in the U.S., 5th in Texas

SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT IN PUNTLAND EXECUTES 19 MEN BY FIRING SQUAD

Nineteen men were executed on 8 March 2023 by Puntland's military court.

IRAN - Jalal Sardari Far executed in Urmia on March 9

PAKISTAN: THREE AWARDED DEATH PENALTY IN JOHAR TOWN BLAST CASE

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on 7 March 2023 convict­ed three more accused persons involved in Johar Town bomb blast case.

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED IN EASTERN PROVINCE OVER TERRORISM OFFENSES

A Saudi national in the Eastern Province was executed for terrorism offenses, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on 7 March 2023.

USA - Florida. House committee approves easier death sentences

USA - California. Maurice Hastings exonerated

JAPAN: OSAKA HIGH COURT APPROVES POSTHUMOUS RETRIAL OF MAN OVER 1984 MURDER

A Japanese high court approved on 27 February 2023 a posthumous retrial for a man convicted of robbing and murdering a 69-year-old woman in 1984 in western Japan, upholding a lower court's decision.

USA - Texas. Gary Green, 51, Black, was executed

Already 4 executions in Texas since the beginning of the year

IRAN - Meisham Bahram and Shah Bakhsh (Mahmoud) Ostadi executed in Bandar Abbas on March 7

144 executions since the beginning of the year