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 2, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCE IN FIVE PEOPLE'S MURDER CASE
Three men were sentenced to death on five counts each in a case involving the murder of five people in Barki area, Dunya News reported on October 31, 2023.
NOVEMBER 2, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TOP COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 7 MILITANTS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR 2016 CAFE ATTACK
Bangladesh’s High Court on October 30, 2023 commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants to life in prison for their role in a 2016 attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka, that killed 20 people, mostly foreigners.
NOVEMBER 2, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FIVE MEN EXECUTED FOR MURDER IN SOMALILAND
The self-declared Republic of Somaliland on November 1st, 2023 executed five men for murder in Hargeisa.
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 women and a man sentenced to death for adultery
Leila Khalghi Sakachayi, Mitra … and Abolfazl Barat Vakili
NOVEMBER 2, 2023North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. W. D. Buckman sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Golmohammadi executed in Arak on November 2
- NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN 6 men executed in Karaj on November 1
Ehsan Haddad, Abbas Anarki, Kuchak Behrouz, Mohsen Abbasi, Yadalollah Farrokhi and Sadegh Tajik.
NOVEMBER 1, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas
Execution for Kenneth Eugene Smith
NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Tajik and Yadollah Farrokhi executed in Karaj on November 1
NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Foroughmanesh, a woman, executed in Yasuj on November 1.
15th woman execution recorded in 2023 in Iran
OCTOBER 31, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF CONVICT IN MULTIPLE MURDER CASE
Peshawar High Court has commuted death sentence awarded to a convict to life imprisonment for killing four of his close family members including his father and brother in Nowshera district around six years ago, Dawn reported on October 30, 2023.
OCTOBER 31, 2023PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. House panel votes to abolish death penalty
- OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 87 executions in October
- OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Takavar executed in Karaj on October 30
OCTOBER 30, 2023IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: 8 IRANIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
An Indonesian court on October 27, 2023 ordered that eight Iranian nationals be executed for smuggling more than 700 pounds (300 kg) of crystal methamphetamine by sea into Java.
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Vahdati and Khalil Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on October 30
OCTOBER 30, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO WENT ON STABBING SPREE IN SHANGHAI SENTENCED TO DEATH
Hou Xiaofei, the man who went on a stabbing spree and injured 15 people in a hospital in Shanghai last summer, was sentenced to death by the Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court on October 27, 2023.
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Nutizehi executed in Isfahan on October 30
648 executions so far in 2023
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed on October 30
At an unspecified prison in Golestan province
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Salkhord, Shahab Sadeghzadeh, and Mansour Taqvaei executed in Shiraz on October 30
- OCTOBER 29, 2023DEATH PENALTY
USA - DEATH BY INCARCERATION: reform advocates at un call for end to "the other death penalty"
This year's Human Rights Committee review of the US shone a light on "the other death penalty" – death by incarceration
OCTOBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Armita Garavand was buried amid tight security in Tehran on October 29
Nasrin Sotoudeh was beaten and arrested at the funeral
OCTOBER 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2016 MURDER OF PREGNANT HABIGANJ HOUSEWIFE
A court in Bangladesh on October 26, 2023 sentenced five members of a family to death for the murder of Ayesha Akhtar in Habiganj’s Chunarughat.
OCTOBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamsollah Banani executed in Ahar on October 29
OCTOBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Teenage Armita Garavand (Geravand) Dies In Hospital
OCTOBER 28, 2023QatarDEATH PENALTYQATAR: 8 INDIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH ON CHARGES OF SPYING FOR ISRAEL
Qatar sentenced eight Indian former naval officers to death on October 26, 2023 after finding them guilty of spying for Israel on the Gulf state’s submarine programme.
OCTOBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davood Behzadi executed in Esfarayen on October 28
672 executions in Iran in 2023
OCTOBER 27, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jury recommends death penalty for Tapero Johnson
- OCTOBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man executed in "one of Tehran's prisons"
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OCTOBER 26, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Stay of impending execution of William Speer