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TEXAS, USA. DEATH ROW APPEAL DENIED

18 May 2006 :

the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals voted 5-4 to lift a stay of execution it issued on May 15 for Derrick S. O'Brien. O'Brien had been scheduled to die May 16; a new execution date was to be set at a hearing in July.
Four of the five judges who voted to lift the stay said in a concurring opinion that O'Brien did not offer evidence that the drugs used by the state could cause a painful death.
O'Brien, 31, was sentenced to death for the 1993 torture slayings of two Houston teenage girls.
 
(Sources: AP, 17/05/2006)

other news

IRAN - 126th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

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IRAN - Hossein Kashani Hanged in Kerman on June 15

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IRAN - Fayeq Ahmadi executed in Sari on June 21

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SAUDI ARABIA: ALMOST 100 PEOPLE EXECUTED SO FAR THIS YEAR AS DOZENS MORE REMAIN ON DEATH ROW FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENCES

23 June 2026

Saudi Arabian authorities have executed nearly 100 people so far this year, including at least 61 for drug-related offences, the latest of which was on 18 June.

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KENYA: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POISONING, STABBING TWO DAUGHTERS

23 June 2026

The High Court of Nairobi, Kenya, on June 23, 2026 issued a death sentence against a man found guilty of the murders of his two daughters.

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IRAN - 3 men executed in Yazd on June 17

23 June 2026

Reza Nazif, Noor Jalal Mojahed, Esfandiar Sadri

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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.