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SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI NATIONAL EXECUTED FOR MURDERING COMPATRIOT

19 December 2016 :

Saudi national Majid bin Abdulla bin Humood Al-Otaibi was executed in Riyadh for murdering a compatriot after a heated argument. 
The Penal Court found Majid guilty of stabbing to death Badr bin Humood bin Nuwaishi Al-Otaibi and sentenced him to capital punishment. 
The Saudi Court of Appeals and the High Court upheld the death sentence and a plea for royal mercy was turned down.
 
(Sources: GDN Online Desk, 19/12/2016)

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USA - Tennessee. The failed execution of Tony Carruthers

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USA - Florida. Otto Lenke, 66, White, sentenced to death

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USA - Florida. Richard Knight, 47, Black, was executed on May 21

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NIGERIA: RIVERS COURT SENTENCES 7, INCLUDING TWINS, TO DEATH OVER REVEREND DOKUBO-HARRY’S MURDER

26 May 2026

Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced seven persons, including twin brothers, to death by hanging over the abduction and murder of Reverend Edwin Isaiah Dokubo-Harry in 2013.

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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

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Documents

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  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
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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.