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Five men were executed by firing squad at dawn in Vietnam...

09 July 2004 :

Five men were executed by firing squad at dawn in Vietnam for rape and murder. the five were put to death at dawn in Ho Chi Minh City's Thu Duc execution site. Do Trong Nghia, 23, Nguyen Huu Duyen, 34, Truong Tan Dat, 28, and Nguyen Huu Nhon, 32, had been sentenced to death in separate murder cases, while Duong Tuan Anh, 34, had been convicted of raping his stepdaughter.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 12/07/2004)

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NIGERIA: PRAWA BOSS CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY

21 August 2025

Dr Uju Agomoh, Executive Director, Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), has renewed her call for the abolition of the death penalty in Nigeria.

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SRI LANKA: THREE-WHEELER DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN KELANIYA

21 August 2025

A 43-year-old three-wheeler driver was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court on August 21, 2025, after being found guilty of stabbing and killing a person with a sharp weapon following an argument.

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IRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19

21 August 2025

Safarali Keyfari, Milad Narouei + Unk.

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IRAN - Hossein Karimi and Taleb Rikani executed in Isfahan on August 20

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IRAN - Mokhtar Fazeli executed in Ahvaz on August 20

21 August 2025  Read everything

USA - Florida. Kayle Bates, 67, Black, was executed

21 August 2025

State’s 10th execution of 2025

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Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 2025  Read everything
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Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

  •  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.