Chronological archive
August 2024
The 65 news items published by Hands Off Cain in August 2024, in chronological order.
IRAN - Mohammadreza Abbaszade executed in Zanjan on August 31
AUGUST 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sirwan Abubakri executed in Mahabad on August 29
AUGUST 29, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Loran Cole, 57, White, was executed on August 29
AUGUST 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisam Hosseinkhani executed in Khorramabad on August 28
AUGUST 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on August 28
Asad Khosravi, Milad Ali Mohammadi, Emad Motevalian and Rafi Abdolbari
AUGUST 27, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Judge Nicholas Thompson sentences Wade Wilson to death
AUGUST 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 68 Organisations Declare Support for “No Death Penalty Tuesdays”
- AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fahim … executed in Isfahan on August 24
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Barkatali Sanjarani executed in Zahedan on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amirreza Ajam Akrami executed in public in Shahroud on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Tabriz on August 26
Shapour Hosseini, Irfan Abdolazizi, Mohebollah… e Moshref…
AUGUST 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Rashidi executed in Qazvin on August 24
AUGUST 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Abbasi executed in Nahavand on August 22
AUGUST 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Khaled Jahangiri executed in Tabriz on August 22
AUGUST 22, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Exonerated members of Central Park 5 warn about Trump at Democratic convention
AUGUST 22, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Duval County Jury recommends death sentence Pinkney ‘Chip’ Carter
AUGUST 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Daghestani executed in Urmia on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2024TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Sean Finnegan gets death penalty for murder of Jennifer Gail Paxto
AUGUST 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Continuation of the "No to Execution Tuesdays" Campaign in 18 Prisons Across the Country
Thirty Weeks of Resistance Against Executions
- AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Piri and Mazaher Ayouzi (Eyvazi) executed in Zanjan on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Yazd at an unspecified date
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Karami-Zadeh and Esmaiel Jawadi executed in Karaj on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 19
Ansar Eftekhareddin, Mahmoud Salim, Abdolraouf Shehbakhsh, Abdolrahman Damani + Unk.
AUGUST 19, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. David Lee Myers, 60, White, was released on Monday
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 43 Human Rights Organisations Against Crackdown in Evin Prison
AUGUST 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas A’laei Aqblagh and Ali Azmoon executed in Tabriz on August 18
AUGUST 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on August 17
Yousef Kazemzadeh, Ali Salimi and Heydar (Haider) Arab
AUGUST 16, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump and Harris records on criminal justice policy
AUGUST 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peymanollah Veysi executed in Sanandaj on August 15
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on August 14
Behrouz Vafayi, Saeed Niazi (Ali Niazi), Naser Shafiei and unidentified Afghan man
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi cleared of charge after death sentence overturned
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AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farajollah Khashi and Hamed Shehbakhsh executed in Kerman and Bam prisons on August 13 and 14
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Zardkouhi and Mousa-alreza Ebrahimi executed in Sabzevar on August 14.
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elias Rezaei executed in Gorgan on August 14
AUGUST 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified Afghan national executed in Rafsanjan on August 13
- AUGUST 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdollah Lashtaghouni and Hamed Mozafari executed in Bandar Abbas on August 13
AUGUST 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Khorramabad on August 10 and 12
Hossein Hatami, Naser Geravand, Milad Hadipour, Shirzad Reshadat, Ayat Biranvand + Unk
AUGUST 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Tabriz on August 12
Mohammad Ansari Gheshlagh, Ali Mehdian and two unidentified Afghan nationals
- AUGUST 11, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE HANGS PRISONER IN SECOND EXECUTION IN DAYS
Singapore hanged a 59-year-old man on August 7, 2024 for drug trafficking, authorities said, the second execution in the city-state in less than a week.
AUGUST 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Zahrabi executed in Isfahan on August 11
AUGUST 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Dehdari executed in Shiraz on August 11
AUGUST 8, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: THREE PAKISTANI NATIONALS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM AND ROBBERY CHARGES
Three Pakistani youths have been sentenced to death by a local court in Iraq on charges of terrorism and robbery, propakistani.pk reported on August 5, 2024.
AUGUST 8, 2024UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Taberon Dave Honie, 48, Native American, was executed
AUGUST 8, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Cory Maples resentenced to LWOP
AUGUST 7, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Arthur Lee Burton, 54, Black, was executed.
AUGUST 7, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FOUR IN KARACHI GET DEATH FOR KIDNAP, MURDER & RAPE OF TWO BOYS
A Karachi anti-terrorism court (ATC) sentenced four men to death for abducting and killing two minor boys as well as for raping them and demanding ransom, Dawn reported on August 2, 2024.
AUGUST 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 29 men executed in Karaj on August 7
Maybe also 2 women
AUGUST 7, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Parole Board votes for clemency for Emmanuel Littllejohn
AUGUST 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified women execute in Karaj (Central) on August 7
- AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 6
Aminollah Narui (Narooie), Hamzeh Garavand, and Azad Abdollahi
AUGUST 6, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ODISHA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE FOR GIVING BIRTH TO SECOND GIRL CHILD
A court in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar on August 1, 2024 sentenced a man to death for repeatedly stabbing his wife to death and attempting to murder his six-year-old daughter by slitting her throat two years ago.
AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Rasaei executed in Kermanshah on August 6
Political prisoner arrested during the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement
AUGUST 6, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. David Lee Myers granted new trial in 1988 murder
AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Gohari executed in Sabzevar on August 6
- AUGUST 5, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES CONVICTED ROBBERY GANG OF FIVE
Saudi authorities have executed five individuals convicted of robbery, kidnapping, and killing an Indian man, Gulf News reported on August 2, 2024.
AUGUST 5, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN HANGED FOR TRAFFICKING 36G OF HEROIN
Singapore on August 2, 2024 hanged a convicted drug trafficker, authorities said, in the city-state's second execution this year.
- AUGUST 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hoy Atef ... executed in Bushehr on August 4
- AUGUST 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Hosseini and Amir Tasbihi executed in Arak on August 4
- AUGUST 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on August 3
Javad Amiri, Naghi Ghorbani, and Reza Rostami
AUGUST 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Salehi and Morteza Seifzadeh executed in Tabriz on August 3
AUGUST 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Malek Ashtar and Ahmadreza Toni executed in Khorramabad on August 3
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AUGUST 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. defense secretary rejects plea deal for 9/11 mastermind
Puts death penalty back on table
- AUGUST 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Parseh + Unk. executed in Khorramabad on August 1
AUGUST 1, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES 3 PERSONS TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY, MURDER IN OSUN STATE
A watchmaker, Oludayo Oladele, an electrician, Awodeji Muyiwa, and a herb seller, Jelili Kareem on July 9, 2024 were sentenced to death for robbing and killing a corps member, Adebayo Mukaila in Osogbo, Osun State capital.
AUGUST 1, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Curtis Lee Ervin must either be retried or released