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JAPAN: MAN TO HANG FOR MURDERS

02 November 2011 :

in Japan, Sunao Takami was sentenced to hang for killing five people in a fire at a pachinko parlour in Osaka in 2009. A jury of six members of the public and a panel of three judges rejected the defence argument that Takami was mentally ill at the time of the crime.
 
(Sources: ABC.net.au, 01/11/2011)

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USA - DPIC Report on “Women and the Death Penalty”

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USA - Alabama. Governor signed HB 41

16 February 2026

Sexual crimes against children eligible for execution

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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.