State’s longest-serving death row inmate

In Arizona, Tennessee and Missouri

In Gonbad Kavous Prison, for murder

In Qazvin Prison, for murder

While Facing a Budget Crisis

Sends AB395 to Senate

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2021 adopted a Recommendation (CM/Rec(2021)2) inviting member States to take measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

For murder

Merhdad Jalali, Mohsen Madavian and Ramezan Ali Shahroodi

A Kurdish political prisoner

Aentenced to death for the rape of a minor