The Malaysian government on October 6, 2022 introduced amendments to existing legislation in Parliament to replace the mandatory death penalty for several criminal offences, in a significant step towards bringing the country closer towards complete abolition of capital punishment.

A Jordanian has been sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering his father in Wadi Araba in December 2020, Gulf News reported on 4 October 2022.

Correspondent from Turkey of Radio Radicale and a good friend of Hands Off Cain

Asif Shibak, Saeed Shibak, Ramadan Mazar Zahi and Awad Bilrani

40 Killed in Zahedan’s “Bloody Friday”

The killer of a 22-year-old university student has been sentenced to death, a court in the Egyptian province of Shariqa said on 3 October 2022.

A 49-year-old man has been sentenced to death in Singapore for heroin trafficking after the High Court rejected his contention that the majority of the drugs found in his apartment belonged to his 26-year-old girlfriend, The Straits Times reported on October 3, 2022.

A court has sentenced a man to death and two others to life in prison for the murder of Mizan Sikdar Mishor, a worker at a dyeing factory at the Narayanganj Port.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 2 October 2022 executed an African maid who was convicted of murdering a child.