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PAKISTAN. 134 PEOPLE HANGED IN 2007

31 March 2008 :

Releasing its annual report on the state of human rights in 2007, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said that as many as 134 convicts were executed and 309 awarded death sentence. There were over 7,000 prisoners on the death row.
Prisons housed 95,016 detainees as against an authorised capacity of 40,825. Across Pakistan, 67 per cent of the prisoners were awaiting trial.
 
(Sources: Khaleej Times, 30/03/2008)

other news

USA - ‘Death Row USA Winter 2026’

17 June 2026

2,004 people on death row

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USA - "Death Row USA Summer 2025" report

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NIGERIA: HIGH COURT IMPOSES DEATH SENTENCE ON MAN ARRESTED FOR KIDNAP, KILLING OF NEIGHBOUR

17 June 2026

A High Court of Kogi State, Nigeria, on June 16, 2026 imposed the death penalty on a man prosecuted for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour, who ran a hotel in Obajana.

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IRAN - 6 men executed

17 June 2026

Rasoul Atapour, Alireza Ahmadi Balsini, Seyed Adnan Mousavi, Masoud Asgari, Peyman Shahkarami

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IRAN - 3 men Executed in Isfahan Prison on June 15

17 June 2026

Mohammadreza Gashoul, Fariborz Jafari, Hamidreza Afsharipour

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IRAN - Ghafur Shahbakhsh and Omar Shahbakhsh executed in Yazd on June 16

17 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.