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USA - Kansas. House Committee defeated HB 2282 to repeal capital punishment

26 February 2019 :

The House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee voted 7-6 to defeat HB 2282, which would have repealed the state's capital punishment statute. The bill had been introduced on February 12, with bipartisan co-sponsorship of 33 legislators.

 
(Source: DPIC, 22/02/2019)

other news

BANGLADESH: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF GIRL

17 June 2026

On June 7, 2026, a trial court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced a couple to death for the rape and subsequent murder of eight-year-old Ramisa Akter.

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USA - The 47 Women on Death Row in the U.S.

17 June 2026  Read everything

USA - ‘Death Row USA Spring 2026’

17 June 2026

1,993 people on death row

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USA - ‘Death Row USA Winter 2026’

17 June 2026

2,004 people on death row

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USA - "Death Row USA Summer 2025" report

17 June 2026  Read everything

NIGERIA: HIGH COURT IMPOSES DEATH SENTENCE ON MAN ARRESTED FOR KIDNAP, KILLING OF NEIGHBOUR

17 June 2026

A High Court of Kogi State, Nigeria, on June 16, 2026 imposed the death penalty on a man prosecuted for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour, who ran a hotel in Obajana.

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Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

25 August 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.