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SAUDI ARABIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CRITICIZING GOVERNMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA 06 September 2023 Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on August 28, 2023. Read everything

IRAQ: 3 HANGED FOR IS-CLAIMED BLAST THAT KILLED HUNDREDS

05 September 2023

Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district.

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VIETNAM: PRESIDENT REDUCES DEATH PENALTIES TO LIFE SENTENCES FOR 11 PRISONERS

03 September 2023

President Vo Van Thuong on August 30, 2023 decided to reduce death penalties to life sentences for 11 prisoners.

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USA - Louisiana. Larry Hudson, a newly discovered death row exoneration in 1967 case

01 September 2023 Read everything

IRAN - Javad Rouhi has died under suspicious circumstances

01 September 2023

A protester sentenced to death

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IRAN - Ehsan Dehqanipour executed in Borujard on August 29

01 September 2023 Read everything

IRAN - Hamed Sargazi and Esmaeil Hajizadeh executed in Hamedan on August 29

531 executions since the beginning of 2023

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USA - Louisiana. Jarrell Neal’s death sentence overturned

29 August 2023 Read everything

IRAN - Sobhan Eftekharedin executed in Aligudarz on August 27

29 August 2023 Read everything

USA - Alabama. The state wants to be the first to execute prisoner by making them breathe pure nitrogen

29 August 2023 Read everything

IRAN - Milad Yazdanpanah executed in Zarand on August 26

28 August 2023 Read everything

IRAN - Wafa Kharamani executed in Saqqez on August 27

528 executions in Iran in 2023

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USA - Mississippi. Howard M. Neal resentenced to life WITH parole

Former death row inmate

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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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