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VIETNAM. FIVE PEOPLE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD FOR HEROIN DEALING

An execution in Vietnam

22 May 2006 :

five people convicted of heroin dealing were executed in southern Ho Chi Minh City. The five, including two women, were put to death by firing squad before dawn.
They were among 21 people convicted of selling 2.8 kilograms (6 pounds) of heroin to drug users along Vietnam's Saigon River. 
Four defendants involved in the case were sentenced to life imprisonment while 12 others were given jail terms ranging from three years to 20 years. 
 
(Sources: AP, 20/05/2006)

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A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced a husband and wife to death by hanging for the fatal beating of their domestic worker.

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FRANCE: SERGE ATLAOUI RELEASED AFTER YEARS ON INDONESIA DEATH ROW

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A Frenchman who spent almost two decades on death row in Indonesia over drug offences before being returned to France left prison on July 18, 2025 after being granted a conditional release.

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IRAN - Iran Says Executions Limited To ‘Most Severe Crimes’

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IRAN - Ismail Hajivand executed in Malayer on July 28

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Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 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
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  •   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.