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SOUTH SUDAN: SUDANESE TRADER HANGED FOR DEFILEMENT AND MURDER 02 February 2025 A Sudanese trader who was convicted of defiling, murdering, and dumping the body of five-year-old Abuk Lual into a pit latrine in Aweil in 2022 was executed by hanging in South Sudan on January 29, 2025 at Wau Central Prison.  Read everything

IRAN - 87 executions in January

02 February 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Maryam Kaviani executed in Khorramabad on February 1

02 February 2025

a Lor woman from Khorramabad

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IRAN - Naser Zandipour and Nader Minaeifar executed in Yazd on January 22

01 February 2025  Read everything

USA - Montana. House narrowly rejects bill intended to allow death penalty to resume

01 February 2025

HB 205

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USA - South Carolina. Marion Bowman, 44, Black, was executed

01 February 2025

First execution in the US of the new year

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IRAN - Female Prisoners in Evin

31 January 2025

Report on 76 female political and security prisoners

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IRAN - IHR Calls for the Revocation of 6 Political Prisoners’ Death Penalty

31 January 2025

Babak Alipour, Vahid Baniamerian, Pouya Ghobadi, Abolhassan Montazer and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi

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IRAN - Mohammad Zaboli executed in Yasuj on January 30

31 January 2025  Read everything

USA - The Death Penalty in 2024

30 January 2025

New Monthly Podcast from the DPIC

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USA - Texas. Death Penalty Documentary Nominated for Academy Award

30 January 2025

“I am Ready, Warden”

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IRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz

30 January 2025

Hamid Fanaei, Amir Fanaei, Rasoul Minaei, Khosrow Abbaszadeh, and Mohammad Ali Heidari

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USA - Texas. Texas executions decline, but death penalty system remains flawed

30 January 2025

Robert Roberson’s case is reason enough for pause

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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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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.