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KENYA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2009 MURDER OF IRISH PRIEST

24 August 2011 :

in Kericho, Kenya, Chief Magistrate Hedwig Ong'undi sentenced Isaac Kipng'etich Bett, Jackson Cheruiyot Koskei and Joshua Maranga Makori to death for the 2009 murder and robbery of Irish Kiltegan Father Jeremiah Roche, 68, in Keongo. A laptop, two mobile phones and other electronic devices valued at more than $3,000 were stolen.
 
(Sources: Catholic News, 23/08/2011)

other news

IRAN - The 125th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign

17 June 2026

Elisabetta Zamparutti is also taking part in the protest on behalf of NtC

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NIGERIA: KATSINA COURT SENTENCES FEMALE ARMS COURIER TO DEATH

16 June 2026

A Federal High Court in Katsina State has sentenced a female arms courier to death by hanging

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UGANDA: PRISONS CONFIRMS 93 INMATES ON DEATH ROW, SAYS NO EXECUTIONS SINCE 1999

15 June 2026

The Uganda Prisons Service has confirmed that the country currently has 93 inmates on death row, while reiterating that no executions have been carried out since 1999, Nile Post reported on June 11, 2026.

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IRAN - 8 men Executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 13

15 June 2026

Seyed Akbar Banihashem, Amirabbas Dekavand +6

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IRAN - Bilal Saadat Jahani executed in Birjand on June 15

15 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Mohammad Amin Narouei executed in Birjand on June 14

15 June 2026  Read everything
 

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.