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USA - South Dakota. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 71

08 March 2019 :

The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday recalled SB 71, and today passed it for consideration by the full Senate by a vote of 5-2.

 
(Source: HoC, 12/02/2019)

other news

USA - Tennessee. The failed execution of Tony Carruthers

27 May 2026

Halted after an hour of attempts to insert the intravenous lines

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USA - Florida. Otto Lenke, 66, White, sentenced to death

27 May 2026  Read everything

USA - Florida. Richard Knight, 47, Black, was executed on May 21

27 May 2026  Read everything

NIGERIA: RIVERS COURT SENTENCES 7, INCLUDING TWINS, TO DEATH OVER REVEREND DOKUBO-HARRY’S MURDER

26 May 2026

Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced seven persons, including twin brothers, to death by hanging over the abduction and murder of Reverend Edwin Isaiah Dokubo-Harry in 2013.

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BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER RAPE OF 11-YEAR-OLD IN MEHERPUR

26 May 2026

A court in Meherpur on May 24, 2025 sentenced a man to death over raping an 11-year-old girl last year.

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JAPAN: FEMALE DEATH ROW INMATE SUES JAPAN GOVERNMENT OVER 24/7 SURVEILLANCE

25 May 2026

For close to a quarter of a century, death row inmate Hiroko Kazama’s every movement in her 3½ tatami-size cell at the Tokyo Detention House has been watched.

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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.