USA - South Dakota. The Senate Judiciary Committee defeated SB 71 to prohibit capital punishment for severe mental illness

08 March 2019 :

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 4-3 to defeat SB 71 that would prohibit capital punishment of any person with severe mental illness.

 
(Source: HoC, 07/02/2019)

other news

IRAN - IHR report on widespread and systematic drug executions

01 January 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 7 men executed on December 31

01 January 2026

Karamali Khani, Ehsan Dehqanpanah, Mohsen Jadidi, Manouchehr Niazi, Mehran Hosseini, Keramat Safari, Moslem Rafiinia

 Read everything

IRAN - Hojjat Amini-Zadeh executed in Shahrekord on December 30

01 January 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Ali Joveyani executed in Ardabil on December 28

01 January 2026  Read everything

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOGGED MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE IN PUBLIC IN 2025, FIGURES SHOW

31 December 2025

The Taliban publicly flogged more than 1,000 people across Afghanistan in 2025, including at least 150 women, according to data released by their Supreme Court

 Read everything

CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN

31 December 2025

A man was sentenced to death for tricking his two children into drinking pesticide, causing their deaths, the Zunyi Intermediate People's Court in Guizhou province said on December 26, 2025.

 Read everything
 

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
All urgent actions 
 
 
Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

All documents 
 
Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

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.