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SAUDI ARABIA. AFGHANI BEHEADED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

20 September 2006 :

Saudi Arabia beheaded an Afghani convicted of heroin smuggling, the Interior Ministry said. Ubeidullah bin Mohammed bin Alem was decapitated in Jiddah for smuggling heroin into the kingdom, the statement said.
 
(Sources: Associated Press, 19/09/2006)

other news

USA - Missouri. Lance Shockley, 48, White, was executed on October 14

15 October 2025  Read everything

USA - Florida. Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, White, was executed on October 14

15 October 2025  Read everything

CHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA LEGISLATOR SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE

15 October 2025

Wang Bo, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes exceeding 449 million yuan ($62.88 million), a court in Hubei province announced on October 10, 2025.

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IRAN - Mostafa Mirzaei and Ayub Latifian executed in Khorramabad on October 12

15 October 2025  Read everything

INDIA: MADRAS HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE, SAYS ACCUSED NOT MENACE TO SOCIETY

15 October 2025

Madras high court on October 11, 2025 commuted the death sentence awarded to a man to life imprisonment in a case where he murdered his cousin because she refused to give him money to settle his debts, in 2021.

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IRAN - 5 men executed in Kermanshah on October 14

15 October 2025

Shahram Chenani + 4

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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.