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JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER

28 April 2009 :

a Jordanian man was sentenced to death by hanging for raping a teenaged cousin and fatally smashing his skull with a rock.
A criminal court condemned the 28-year-old truck driver to death for raping and killing the 14-year-old boy on a deserted desert road between the southern cities of Madaba and Karak in 2007, the official told AFP.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 27/04/2009)

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The Court of Appeal in Arusha, Tanzania, on April 10, 2026, dismissed the appeal of Alex Julius, upholding the death sentence previously handed down by the High Court.

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USA - Texas. Clarence Curtis Jordan’s death sentence overturned

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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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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.