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
NOVEMBER 23, 2023TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: COP KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man convicted of stabbing two police officers to death in Tainan City last year has been given the death penalty.
NOVEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Zohrevand secretly executed in Hamadan on November 23
A political prisoner
NOVEMBER 23, 2023Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
A 41-year-old accused who was found guilty for murdering a 52-year-old woman who lived alone in her house by stabbing with a screwdriver on November 22, 2023 was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.
NOVEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Gorgij and Shahmorad Davoudi executed in Mashhad on November 23
NOVEMBER 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - BJS released its latest report for the year 2021
2,382 people were under sentence of death in 2021
NOVEMBER 22, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: APPEAL COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO 30 YEARS JAIL FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS
A former mechanic and a former cosmetician, convicted of two counts of trafficking drugs, had their death sentences commuted to 30 years in prison on November 22, 2023 by the Court of Appeal.
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Andishkouh and Moslem Jamshidi executed in Karaj on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Zamharir executed in Tabriz on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Karaj on November 22
Loghman Omrani + Unk
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza … executed in Karaj on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Rasoul Heydari executed on November 22 in Shiraz
- NOVEMBER 21, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALI: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES SOLDIER FOR MURDER IN GALMUDUG
In the Galgaduud region's Guriceel city, Somalia's Military Court executed soldier Abdisalan Ali Ahmed on November 19, 2023 for the murder of Abdullahi Ali Hudey.
NOVEMBER 21, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KERALA CHILD RAPE-MURDER CONVICT SENTENCED TO DEATH
One hundred and ten days after a minor girl was brutally raped and killed in Kerala's Aluva, a special court in Kochi on November 14, 2023 sentenced a migrant worker to death
- NOVEMBER 20, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: LONGEST SERVING DEATH ROW PRISONER RELEASED BY HIGH COURT
On 14 November 2023, Wenceslaus James, the longest serving death row inmate in the country, was released by order of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago. Convicted for murder in 1996, Wenceslaus received the mandatory death sentence for the offence.
NOVEMBER 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Siamand Bukani (Ostwar) executed in Ardabil on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH PENALTY, 2 LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR SMUGGLING GOLD IN JASHORE
A Jashore court has sentenced three people to death, two to life-term imprisonment for smuggling 624 bars of gold across the Jashore border in Sharsha.
- NOVEMBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on November 19
Abdulghafoor Mahmoudi, Mohammad Hussein TashtZar, Ali Payam
NOVEMBER 19, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: 95.8% DEATH ROW AND LIFE PRISON INMATES APPLIED FOR SENTENCE REVIEW AFTER MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY REMOVED
978 out of 1,020 death row and natural life imprisonment inmates have applied to have their sentence reviewed since Nov 9, said the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said on November 14, 2
NOVEMBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Zainaldini executed in Shiraz on November 19
NOVEMBER 17, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Judge Michael Sweet has sentenced Salvador Vasquez-Oliva to death
For killing 4 of his family
- NOVEMBER 16, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: APEX COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY AND NATURAL-LIFE IMPRISONMENT OF 11 CONVICTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A total of 11 individuals convicted for drug trafficking became the first batch of inmates to have their death sentence and natural-life imprisonment commuted under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdictio
NOVEMBER 16, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MENTALLY CHALLENGED WOMAN AFTER RAPE
A court in Manikganj on November 15, 2023 sentenced a man to death on the charge of killing a mentally challenged woman after rape at Singair upazila in the district in 2019.
NOVEMBER 16, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Casey McWhorter, 49, White, was executed
NOVEMBER 16, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. David Renteria, 53, Hispanic, was executed
- NOVEMBER 15, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY AWARDED TO A MURDER ACCUSED
The Supreme Court of India, in a judgment delivered on November 10, 2023, commuted death sentence awarded to a murder accused.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 more executions in Karaj on November 15
3 other executions have already been reported, bringing the total to 9
- NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Shirzadeh executed in Tabriz on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two unidentified men executed in Kerman on November 15
NOVEMBER 15, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN NATORE
A tribunal in Natore on November 15, 2023 convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 2018.
NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least three men executed in Karaj on November 15
Bagher Mohammadi Geravand, Nazir Mohammad + Unk