Archive timeline
2018
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2018, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 679
- Countries where they were recorded
- 26
- News items in the archive
- 1,532
Latest news of 2018
SOMALI TROOPS EXECUTE SIX MILITANTS IN GEDO REGION
Six members of the Al-Shabaab militia group were executed on 31 December 2018.
- DECEMBER 31, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt: Adel Abdel Nour El Sayed Soliman executed for murder
Egypt: Adel Abdel Nour El Sayed Soliman executed for murder
- DECEMBER 31, 2018CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. New trial for Freddie Lee Taylor
USA - California. New trial for Freddie Lee Taylor
DECEMBER 31, 2018JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: COURT OF CASSATION REDUCES DEATH SENTENCE TO 20 YEARS IN ‘HONOR KILLING’ CASE
The Court of Cassation upheld a March Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a 27-year-old man to 20 years in prison after convicting him of murdering his younger sister for reasons related to family honour in Mafraq in July of 2016.
DECEMBER 31, 2018South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING A KENYAN PRIEST
Two men were on 18 December 2018 sentenced to death for killing a Kenyan priest in Cueibet, South Sudan on November 15, at around 2 am.
DECEMBER 31, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BOMBAY HC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF WOMAN TECHIE KILLER
The Bombay High Court on 20 December 2018 upheld a trial court verdict awarding the death penalty to a man convicted of raping and killing a 23-year-old woman techie from Andhra Pradesh in 2014, describing him as a "menace to the society".
DECEMBER 31, 2018Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: 1, 299 ON DEATH-ROW IN PRISONS
A total of 1, 299 death row inmates, including inmates who had appealed against their sentence, have been detained in Sri Lankan prisons as of 31 December 2018, the Ministry of Justice and Prisons Reforms said on 9 January 2019.
DECEMBER 31, 2018BahrainDEATH PENALTYBAHRAIN: 9 NEW DEATH PENALTIES, 5 ON DEATH ROW AND 147 LIFE SENTENCES IN 2018
In 2018, nine new death sentences were handed down to political prisoners.
DECEMBER 31, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: IN 2018 COURTS HANDED OUT MOST DEATH PENALTIES SINCE 2000
A legislative intervention to extend capital punishment to non-homicide crimes may be the reason for a higher number of death penalties handed out in 2018.
DECEMBER 31, 2018BahrainDEATH PENALTYBAHRAIN: 9 NEW DEATH PENALTIES, 5 ON DEATH ROW AND 147 LIFE SENTENCES IN 2018
In 2018 nine new death sentences were handed down to political prisoners, secondo il Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)
- DECEMBER 30, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Egyptian citizen beheaded in Khamis Mushait Governatorate
30 December 2018: Yusuf Mohammed Yousuf Asma'i executed for murdering a co-national
DECEMBER 29, 2018SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES AL-SHABAAB ASSASSIN IN BAIDOA FOR THE MURDER OF A PROMINENT CLERIC
Somali military court on 29 December 2018 executed Al-Shabaab member who assassinated a famous cleric in Baidoa last year.
- DECEMBER 28, 2018DEATH PENALTY
GAZA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The Court of First Instance of Khan Younis inflicted death by handing upon the citizen Mahmoud Mohammed Khalifa 55 years old from Rafah city, Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” reported.
- DECEMBER 28, 2018ItalyDEATH PENALTY
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY MEETS POPE FRANCIS AND HANDS OFF CAIN
On the day of the vote of the UN General Assembly on the Resolution for the moratorium on capital punishment, the International Commission against the Death Penalty went to Italy where it met Pope Francis and Hands Off Cain.
- DECEMBER 28, 2018OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. George Brinkman formally sentenced
USA - Ohio. George Brinkman formally sentenced
- DECEMBER 28, 2018United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - More from the DPIC 2018 Year End Report
USA - More from the DPIC 2018 Year End Report
DECEMBER 28, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: ISIS-AFFILIATED MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CHRISTIAN DOCTOR
The Cairo Criminal Court handed a death sentence to an ISIS-affiliated man who killed a christian doctor in his clinic in Shubra, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on 23 December 2018.
DECEMBER 28, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ARMY CHIEF SIGNS DEATH WARRANTS OF 14 TERRORISTS
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on 21 December 2018 confirmed the death sentence awarded to 14 hardcore terrorists involved in heinous acts of terrorism.
- DECEMBER 28, 2018JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: LIBYAN NATIONAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The Criminal Court on 23 December 2018 convicted and sentenced a Libyan man to death for murdering a fellow national in Amman in July of 2017.
- DECEMBER 27, 2018SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALI MILITARY COURT EXECUTES DEATH SENTENCE
The mastermind of militant car bombs that killed 26 people and injured nearly 40 others in Mogadishu in 2017 was executed in Somalia 24 December 2018, the prosecutor of the military court said.
- DECEMBER 27, 2018JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN: 2 DEATH ROW INMATES HANGED, BRINGING 2018 EXECUTIONS TO 15
Japan hanged two men convicted of murder on 27 December 2018, the justice minister said, bringing the number of executions this year to 15 -- tied for the highest amount on record.
DECEMBER 27, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: HAMID BAGHERI DERMANI EXECUTED FOR ECONOMIC CORRUPTION
Hamid Bagheri Dermani, a businessman known by the State-run Iranian media as the "Sultan of Bitumen", was executed on 22 December 2018 on alleged economic corruption charges.
DECEMBER 27, 2018EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: AT LEAST 581 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 32 EXECUTED IN FIRST 11 MONTHS OF 2018
Over 30 people were executed and nearly 600 death sentences were issued in Egypt in the first 11 months of 2018, according to a report issued on 22 December 2018 by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
- DECEMBER 24, 2018North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREA: FORTUNE TELLER EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
The North Korean authorities have recently focused on cracking down on “acts of superstition” leading to the execution of a fortune teller in the Chongjin and the arrest of other fortune tellers in Onsong and Hoeryong who are awaiting trial, the Daily NK
- DECEMBER 24, 2018Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani national beheaded in Mecca
24 December 2018: Manur Hussein Karan Ali executed for drugs trafficking
DECEMBER 24, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA BANK CHIEF HANDED DEATH SENTENCE WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
A Chinese court on 21 December 2018 sentenced the former chairman of Bank of Inner Mongolia, a private joint-stock lender, to death for corruption with a two-year reprieve, the official Xinhua news agency said, effectively meaning he will be jailed for li
DECEMBER 24, 2018South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN IN BOR
A High Court in Jonglei State on 18 December 2018 sentenced to death a man who was found guilty of killing two of his children, two months ago.
DECEMBER 24, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: ASIAN TO BE EXECUTED FOR KILLING COLLEAGUE
The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court sentenced an Asian to execution on charges of throttling his colleague to death with ghotra (cloth used by a community to form a turban out of the same), The Gulf Today reported on 18 December 2018.
- DECEMBER 24, 2018CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Outgoing governor Brown reopens the case of Kevin Cooper
USA - California. Outgoing governor Brown reopens the case of Kevin Cooper
DECEMBER 22, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MAN WHO KILLED, RAPED PAKISTANI BOY
The Abu Dhabi Cassation Court on 22 December 2018 upheld the death sentence of a Pakistani man for raping and brutally murdering an 11-year-old boy.