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USA - Alabama. The Senate passed HB 59 to expand the death-penalty

03 June 2019 :

The Alabama Senate voted 27-0 an emended version of HB 59 to expand the state's death-penalty statute to make the killing of a first responder a capital offense. HB 59, now named “William Buechner Act” after a police officer recently killed in the line of duty, goes back to the House, where the previous version had passed on April 18 (see).

 
(Source: DPIC, 23/05/2019)

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SAUDI ARABIA: CITIZEN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

15 July 2025

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry announced on July 13, 2025 the execution of a Saudi citizen in Mecca Province after his conviction for a second offense of drug trafficking.

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USA - Florida. Robert Bailey resentenced to death

15 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Hassan Mansouri executed in Malayer on July 9

15 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Hamid Yavari executed at Hamedan on July 13

15 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Jalal Nazarbeigi executed in Hamedan on July 13

15 July 2025  Read everything

PAKISTAN: MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINIOT

15 July 2025

The Additional Sessions Judge in Chiniot, Imtiaz Nadeem on July 14, 2025 sentenced Altaf Hussain to death twice and imposed a fine for his involvement in a double murder case.

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 2025  Read everything
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Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

  •  USA - Idaho. House committee passes death penalty for sex crimes on minors
  •  IRAN - Salman Aghaei executed in Shiraz on October 22
  •   CO-SPONSOR OF RESOLUTION PRO MORATORIUM
  •   VOTE ON A RESOLUTION ON A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS APPROVED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 2022
  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
  •  USA - Alabama. Corrections officials apparently botched Joe Nathan James' execution last month
  •   GOVERNING BODIES
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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.