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MARCH 1, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH, SIX OTHERS TO LIFE FOR KILLING ZILLUR BHANDARI IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on 14 February 2022 sentenced two people to death and six others to life in prison for the murder of Zillur Bhandari.
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date 3 men executed in Shiraz
Fahim Afghani, Mehrdad Moqaddas and Hassan Gholam Shahi "in the second week of March"
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date Mohammad Reza Heidari executed in Shiraz
"first week of March"
- FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Salehbeig received 74 lashes prior to being executed in Zanjan on February 28
(also Salehbeyg, Saleh-Beyg)
FEBRUARY 28, 2022RussiaDEATH PENALTYRUSSIA: DMITRY MEDVEDEV CALLS ON RUSSIA TO REINTRODUCE DEATH PENALTY
After the Council of Europe on 25 February 2022 suspended Russia’s rights of representation, the country’s deputy chairman of the Security Council says this is a good opportunity to restore the death penalty for the most severe crimes.
FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile offender Mohammadreza Hadadi released
(Also Mohammad-Reza Haddadi)
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BOMBAY HIGH COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH PENALTY IN RAPE AND MURDER CASE; ACQUITS ACCUSED OF MURDER, UPHOLDS RAPE CHARGE
The Bombay High Court on 23 February 2022 quashed the death sentence of a man convicted of killing and raping a girl on the ground that the accusation of murder could not be proven.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI-AMERICAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BEHEADING GIRLFRIEND
A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on 24 February 2022, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Heydar Ghorbani executed in Khorramabad on February 27
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Ghanbari executed in Jiroft on February 27
- FEBRUARY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Execution Postponed After Heart Attack
Hojat Ostad-Asyabi suffered a heart attack at the gallows in Ardabil Prison on February 26
FEBRUARY 25, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court