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SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI WOMAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING HUSBAND

18 November 2016 :

The Ministry of Interior executed Saudi national Munira bint Zuweid Al-Hadhli for killing her husband, in the city of Mecca.
The woman was charged and convicted of setting fire to her sleeping husband. She confessed to locking the door of the room to prevent her husband from escaping the flames. 
The Criminal Court sentenced her to death. The Saudi Court of Appeals and High Court both upheld the capital punishment.
 
(Sources: GDN Online Desk, 18/11/2016)

other news

VIETNAM: FACTORY WORKER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING COFFEE SHOP OWNER DURING ROBBERY

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Tran Van Quy, from Cai Doi Vam Commune, southern Ca Mau Province, was sentenced to death for murder at a first-instance trial held by the Tay Ninh People’s Court on May 27, 2026.

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IRAN - Toomaj Salehi: death sentence of Ekbatan Protesters is Against Humanity

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IRAN - Majid Shirzadi executed at Hamedan on April 28

28 May 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Milad Heydari executed at Marvdasht on May 11

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TANZANIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER

27 May 2026

The High Court in Kagera on May 27, 2026 sentenced Adolf Daudi, a resident of Nyamilanda Village in Muleba District, to death by hanging after convicting him of murdering his mother.

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IRAN - Saman Ebrahimi and Ali Shahbazi executed in Kermanshah on May 25

27 May 2026  Read everything
 

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.