2022

SINGAPORE HANGS 11TH PRISONER OF YEAR: NGO

Singapore hanged a prisoner on 7 October 2022, according to anti-death penalty activists, making it the 11th of this year amid the highest rate of executions in the Southeast Asian city-state since 2010.

IRAN - World Day Against the Death Penalty: HRANA Annual Report

Between October 10, 2021, and October 7, 2022, at least 528 executions in Iran

IRAN - World Day Against Death Penalty, extrajudiciary killings in Iran

IRAN - Iran Protests: at Least 185 Killed/19 Children Amongst Dead

IRAN - On the killing of 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh

IRAN - On the killing of 16 year old Nima Shafiqdoost

MALAYSIA: PUTRAJAYA TABLES BILLS TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH SENTENCE FOR FIRST READING IN PARLIAMENT

The Malaysian government on October 6, 2022 introduced amendments to existing legislation in Parliament to replace the mandatory death penalty for several criminal offences, in a significant step towards bringing the country closer towards complete abolit

IRAN - On the killing of 17-year-old protester Nika Shakarami

USA - Texas. John Henry Ramirez, now 38, Hispanic, was executed

IRAN - Mariano Giustino posted on Twitter the video of an extrajudicial execution

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JORDAN: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FATHER

A Jordanian has been sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering his father in Wadi Araba in December 2020, Gulf News reported on 4 October 2022.

IRAN - Names and details of 182 martyrs of freedom movement

EGYPT: SALMA BAHGAT KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH

The killer of a 22-year-old university student has been sentenced to death, a court in the Egyptian province of Shariqa said on 3 October 2022.

BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING A NARAYANGANJ FACTORY WORKER OVER TK 500

A court has sentenced a man to death and two others to life in prison for the murder of Mizan Sikdar Mishor, a worker at a dyeing factory at the Narayanganj Port.

SINGAPORE: DRUG TRAFFICKER GETS DEATH PENALTY AFTER COURT REJECTS CLAIM THAT MOST OF HEROIN FOUND WAS GIRLFRIEND'S

A 49-year-old man has been sentenced to death in Singapore for heroin trafficking after the High Court rejected his contention that the majority of the drugs found in his apartment belonged to his 26-year-old girlfriend, The Straits Times reported on Octo

PAKISTAN: SON CONVICTED TO DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING PARENTS IN DUKKI BALOCHISTAN

A court in Balochistan’s Dukki district convicted a son of the death sentence for killing his parents, Quetta Voice reported on 30 September 2022.

VIETNAM: CHIEF ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR EMBEZZLING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DONG TO GAMBLE

After a week of deliberation, on the afternoon of 30 September 2022, the People’s Court of Dong Thap province sentenced defendant Nguyen Trung Thanh, former chief accountant of Pilmico Vietnam Co. Ltd.

SAUDI ARABIA: MAID EXECUTED FOR STABBING A SLEEPING GIRL TO DEATH

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 2 October 2022 executed an African maid who was convicted of murdering a child.

IRAN - 2 prisoners executed in Shiraz prison on October 3

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IRAN - Iran Protests: Death Toll Rises to 133

40 Killed in Zahedan’s “Bloody Friday”

PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR GIRL

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Hyderabad on 29 September 2022 awarded death sentence to the prime accused, and 7-years imprisonment to the co-accused in the rape and murder case of a girl child.

MALAYSIA: EX-BIRD’S NEST SELLER FREED OF DEATH SENTENCE

A former bird’s nest seller has been freed of the death penalty as the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya set aside his conviction and sentence on two drug trafficking charges, Free Malaysia Today reported on 30 September 2022.

IRAN - 5 men executed in Mashhad on October 2

Asif Shibak, Saeed Shibak, Ramadan Mazar Zahi and Awad Bilrani

IRAN - 4 prisoners executed in Shiraz prison on October 2

Hashim Mahmoodzadeh, Yusuf Ali Chalani, Abbas Fatahalian, Haider Ramezani

USA - Report: Black People 7.5 Times More Likely to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder than Whites

INDIA: SC ACQUITS DEATH ROW CONVICT FOR RAPE, MURDER, CRITICIZES LOWER COURTS FOR LACK OF SCRUTINY

"Court cannot make someone a victim of injustice to compensate for the injustice to the victim of a crime", the Supreme Court on 28 September 2022 said while acquitting a death row convict for the alleged rape and murder of a six-year-old.

CHINA: OFFICIAL GETS DEATH FOR CORRUPTION INVOLVING 3B YUAN

Li Jianping, a former senior Party official in the economic and technological development zone in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was sentenced to death for multiple crimes on 27 September 2022.

NIGERIA:  ZAMFARA GOVERNOR MATAWALLE, ‘BANDITS DESERVE DEATH PENALTY’

Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara, has justified the death penalty approved for anyone convicted of banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling, or cultism in the state.

IRAN - Qasem Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on September 29

USA - California. Governor signs laws that will reduce death row