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USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court, citing Hurst, vacatied the death sentences of Lamar Brooks

13 March 2017 :

The Florida Supreme Court issued an order, citing Hurst, vacating the death sentences and remanding to the circuit court for a new penalty phase to Lamar Brooks. Brooks, 44, Black, was sentenced on Feb. 25, 2002 (see) for the April, 24, 1996 murders of Rachel Carlson and her three-month-old daughter, Alexis Stuart.

 
(Source: DPIC, 10/03/2017)

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IRAN - Suspicious Death in Custody of Protester Abbas Yavari

17 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Forced Televised Confessions in 2025

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USA - Ohio. Charles Maxwell’s Death Sentence overturned

17 April 2026

Under State’s Serious Mental Illness Law

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USA - Kentucky. Lawmakers override Beshear’s veto of death penalty bill SB 251

17 April 2026  Read everything

USA - Death Sentences for 18-20 Year-Olds at 20-Year Low

17 April 2026  Read everything

AFGHANISTAN: UN EXPERTS URGE TALIBAN TO REVOKE DECREE ON COURT RULES

16 April 2026

A group of United Nations human rights experts has called on the Taliban to rescind a sweeping decree governing criminal court procedures, warning that it could further erode fundamental rights and legal protections in Afghanistan.

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Urgent actions

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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  •  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
  •   VOTE ON A RESOLUTION ON A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS APPROVED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 2022
  •   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.