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IRAQ. 27 ‘TERRORISTS’ EXECUTED IN BAGHDAD

07 September 2006 :

Iraq executed 27 "terrorists" convicted by Iraqi courts of killings and rapes in several provinces.
The 27 were executed in Baghdad, the government's media office said in a brief statement. It did not provide any further details.
 
(Sources: Ap, 07/09/2006)

other news

USA - Updates on the federal death penalty

28 April 2026

The Department of Justice’s plans

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PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WIFE’S ‘HONOUR KILLING’

27 April 2026

A Pakistani court on April 20, 2026 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in the name of ‘honour’, an official said.

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LIFE IN PRISON BIGGER PUNISHMENT: MADRAS HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO RAPED DAUGHTER

27 April 2026

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently commuted the death penalty of a man convicted for sexually assaulting his minor daughter [State of Tamil Nadu Vs Murugan].

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USA - Texas. 2 years after a judge recommended her conviction be tossed, Melissa Lucio still waits for freedom

27 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Political prisoner Naser Bakrzadeh at imminent risk of execution

27 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 3 protest face imminent execution

27 April 2026

Ehsan Hosseinipour Hesarloo, Matin Mohammadi and Erfan Amiri

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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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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.