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USA - Nebraska. LB 238 (transparency in executions) passed the Legislature

26 August 2020 :

LB 238 passed the state’s unicameral legislature on August 13, 2020 by a vote of 27-10 with 12 members present but not voting. The bill would allow witnesses to see the execution from the moment the prisoner enters the death chamber until the prisoner is declared dead or the execution is halted.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/nebraska-legislature-passes-governor-vetoes-execution-transparency-bill
 
(Source: DPIC, 13/08/2020)

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VIETNAM: FACTORY WORKER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING COFFEE SHOP OWNER DURING ROBBERY

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Tran Van Quy, from Cai Doi Vam Commune, southern Ca Mau Province, was sentenced to death for murder at a first-instance trial held by the Tay Ninh People’s Court on May 27, 2026.

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IRAN - Majid Shirzadi executed at Hamedan on April 28

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TANZANIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER

27 May 2026

The High Court in Kagera on May 27, 2026 sentenced Adolf Daudi, a resident of Nyamilanda Village in Muleba District, to death by hanging after convicting him of murdering his mother.

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IRAN - Saman Ebrahimi and Ali Shahbazi executed in Kermanshah on May 25

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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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  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
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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.