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
JANUARY 17, 2023ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY ON WOMAN WHO SET LOVER ABLAZE
A Zambian appeals court has upheld a death penalty imposed on a woman of Ndola who burnt her former boyfriend with petrol resulting in his death a few days later after he ended their relationship, Zambia Daily Mail reported on 17 January 2023.
JANUARY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamel Dodkanlou and Farhad Hosseini executed in Salmas on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California is doing away with death row, relocating inmates
JANUARY 17, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Feds won’t seek death penalty against Patrick Crusius
El Paso Walmart gunman accused of massacring 23 people
JANUARY 17, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: VULCANIZER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ROBBING NURSE
A 32-year-old vulcanizer, Chidozie Onyinchiz, on 17 January 2023 was sentenced to death by hanging by an Ikeja Special Offences Court, presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada.
JANUARY 16, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CIVILIAN KILLING
A Somali soldier - Qasim Duale Abdi - was sentenced to death on 15 January 2023 for killing a civilian after refusing to pay him extortion, an army officer said.
- JANUARY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Tahmasebi executed in Bandar Abbas on January 17
The news published on March 13
JANUARY 15, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: PROSECUTORS SEEK DEATH PENALTY FOR ACADEMIC OVER SOCIAL MEDIA USE
A prominent law professor in Saudi Arabia is facing the death penalty for alleged crimes including having a Twitter account and using WhatsApp to share news considered “hostile” to the kingdom, according to court documents seen by the Guardian.
JANUARY 15, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Airgas refuses to supply nitrogen for executions
JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari
Accused of spying for Great Britain
JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 74 women killed during nationwide uprising of women
JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on January 14
Already 31 executions in the first 2 weeks of the year
- JANUARY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran executions: the role of the ‘revolutionary courts’ in breaching human rights
JANUARY 12, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Scott Eizember executed on January 12
JANUARY 12, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: EX-ARMY OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROLE IN MOGADISHU BOMBINGS
The Court of the Armed Forces of Somalia has sentenced to death a former army official – Sharif Mohamed Barkhadle Ayanle for his role in Mogadishu blasts, Shabelle Media reported on 12 January 2023.
JANUARY 12, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Michael Wayne Jones sentenced to death
Killed wife and 4 children
JANUARY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maher Eyluli and Ali Abbaszadeh executed in Shiraz on January 12
- JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 of the 5 men executed in Arak on January 11 have been identified
Ali Geravand, Azad Dadvand, Kaiwan Amini Tawakol
JANUARY 11, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 2 SIBLINGS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING RADIO STATION STAFF
Two siblings have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria after a court found them guilty of the killing of a radio station staff, Pulse reported on 22 December 2022.
- JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Haji executed in Karaj on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING FIVE-YEAR-OLD
A court in Uttar Pradesh on 11 January 2023 awarded a death sentence to a man for raping and killing a five-year-old girl in 2021.
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 inmates executed in Arak Prison on January 11
Ali Geravand + 4 unknown
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UK. British-Iranian Alireza Akbari at risk of imminent execution
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two Inmates Executed in Rasht and Gorgan on January 11
Milad Ashoob and Shahram Mortazavi
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Gholizadeh executed in Rasht on January 11
- JANUARY 10, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: DEATH-ROW INMATE HANGED IN KASHIMPUR JAIL
A death-row convict was hanged on 8 January 2023 at the Kashimpur Central High Security Jail in Gazipur. In a robbery and rape case, Saiful Islam Rafique, alias Saidul Islam Rafique, 50, was condemned to death.
- JANUARY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Three More Protesters Sentenced To Death
Javad Rouhi, Kimia Javadi and Mehdi Mohammadifar
JANUARY 10, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Robert Fratta, 65, White, was executed
JANUARY 10, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: GOVERNOR OF ONDO STATE AKEREDOLU COMMUTES 7 DEATH SENTENCES TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state on 31 December 2022 invoked his Constitutional power of Prerogative of Mercy to free seven inmates of the Correctional Center serving various terms of imprisonment, just as he commuted seven death sentences to
JANUARY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran sentences Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani to a five-year prison term
The daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani