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MALIAN MAN BEHEADED IN SAUDI ARABIA

01 September 2008 :

a Malian man convicted of serial robbery and attempted rape was put to death by the sword in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.
Hashem Daghali Suma Molla Ismail was found guilty of breaking into a house while drunk and trying to rape a woman before stealing jewellery from her. He was also convicted of stealing from other houses, businesses and cars, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 30/08/2008)

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IRAN - Yahya Najafi executed in Gachsaran on October 14

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IRAN - 3 men executed in Yasuj on October 14

15 October 2025

Ebrahim Delaram, Allahkaram Ghasemi, and Fateh Haqdarian

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IRAN - Ehsan Pourmasoumi executed in Sirjan on October 14

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IRAN - Yarhossein Nazarian executed in Khorramabad on October 14

15 October 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Morteza Darvishi executed in Minab on October 13

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JAPAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO KILLED FOUR IN GUN AND KNIFE ATTACK

14 October 2025

A Japanese court on October 14, 2025 sentenced a 34-year-old man to death for murdering two women as they were out for a stroll and two policemen who responded to the scene of the attack in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, in 2023.

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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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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.