Archive timeline
2026
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2026, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
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Latest news of 2026
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ezzat Asgari Khalilshahr executed in Behshahr on September 8
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026ChinaDEATH PENALTYChina gives ex-Shanxi governor suspended death sentence for corruption
SEPTEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Mashhad on September 6
Fatemeh Jahangard, Mehrdad Mokhtari, and Mohammadreza Mohammadparast
SEPTEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Rasoul Davari executed in Mashhad on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Davari hanged in Mashhad on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Salimi Hanged in Semnan on September 5
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aziz Roshanayi executed in Shiraz on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Mashhad on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Haji-Hassani executed in Gorgan on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Momeni + 1 executed in Shiraz on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valijan Nourzay and Yadollah Shamsi Hanged in Rafsanjan
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Billy Adams sentenced to death
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026BotswanaDEATH PENALTYBotswana: man sentenced to death for killing Korean national 10 years ago
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2026AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algeria: president Tebboune seeks death penalty for arsonists after deadly forest fires
AUGUST 31, 2026PakistanDEATH PENALTYPakistan: ASI sentenced to death for killing two brothers in Swabi
AUGUST 31, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: HC confirms death sentence of lone accused for rape, murder of 8-year-old Asiya
AUGUST 31, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Salahi Laghani executed in Rasht on September 2
AUGUST 30, 2026PakistanDEATH PENALTYPakistan: Man sentenced to death, brother gets life term for double murder in 2021
AUGUST 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Bavi executed in Ahvaz on August 25
AUGUST 23, 2026LibyaDEATH PENALTYEastern Libya executes 10 convicted on terrorism charges
AUGUST 21, 2026JapanDEATH PENALTYJapan: man executed over killing 5 people
AUGUST 15, 2026PakistanDEATH PENALTYPakistan: SC upholds death sentence in ex-wife’s murder
AUGUST 14, 2026AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAfghanistan: UN experts warn against normalizing Taliban rule, urge action on human rights
AUGUST 13, 2026UgandaDEATH PENALTYUganda: Court in Kampala sentences Ndiga clan chief killers to death
AUGUST 12, 2026IraqDEATH PENALTYIraq: Al-Sulaymaniyah reformatory holds 14 women on death row
AUGUST 11, 2026SyriaDEATH PENALTYSyria: Former President Assad sentenced to death in absentia
AUGUST 11, 2026LebanonDEATH PENALTYLebanon becomes first Middle Eastern country to abolish the death penalty
AUGUST 11, 2026ChinaDEATH PENALTYChina: Former Nanjing senior official sentenced to death with reprieve
AUGUST 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Bikas hanged in Meshgin Shahr on August 9
- AUGUST 6, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 4-YR-OLD GIRL IN SYLHET