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GAMBIA COURT HANDS DEATH PENALTY TO COUP PLOTTERS

16 July 2010 :

at a Gambian court, Judge Emmanuel Amadi sentenced eight people to death for plotting to overthrow the country's government. Six Gambian army officers, including the former chief of defence staff and former director of the national intelligence agency, were convicted of treason alongside a local businessman and a Gambia-based Lebanese businessman.
 
(Sources: Reuters, 15/07/2010)

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JORDAN: SIX CONVICTS EXECUTED FOR HIGH-PROFILE TERRORISM, NARCOTICS OFFENSES

22 June 2026

Government Spokesperson and Minister of Government Communication Mohammad Al-Momani announced that authorities executed six convicts by hanging at dawn on June 21, 2026.

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KUWAIT: FIVE CONVICTED MURDERERS EXECUTED AFTER DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD BY HIGHEST COURTS

22 June 2026

The public prosecution announced that it had supervised on June 20, 2026 evening the execution of death sentences against five men convicted of premeditated murder and other serious crimes at Central Prison

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IRAN - Homayoun Nurzehi executed in Zabol on June 21

22 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Isa Rahmani executed in Zahedan on June 21

22 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Ali Asghar Aminipour executed in Birjand on June 14

22 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Hossein Yousefzahi executed in Zabol on June 21

22 June 2026  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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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.