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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: MILITARY COURT MARTIAL SENTENCES 31 TO DEATH

20 June 2016 :

the Goma military court, sitting as mobile court in Kiwanja, sentenced thirty-one people to death for several offences, including kidnapping, extortion, killings and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition.
The Goma military court also imposed the death penalty on a police officer accused of killing his superior in the Tongo area.
 
(Sources: Red Times, 16/06/2016)

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USA - Florida. John Koch has witnessed every execution in Florida since 1989

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INTERNATIONAL - 42 countries retain the death penalty but have not applied it for at least 10 years

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USA - Texas. Texas spent $775,000 on lethal injection drugs in 1 year

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ISRAEL: KNESSET COMMITTEE ADVANCES BILL INTRODUCING DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS

04 November 2025

The Knesset’s National Security Committee, chaired by Zvika Fogel, approved on November 3, 2025 the first reading of a bill proposing the death penalty for perpetrators of terrorist attacks.

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IRAN - Ehsan Mehdipour + 1 executed in Arak on November 2

04 November 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Milad Koubesh executed in Ghezel-Hesar on 29 October

04 November 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
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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.