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PAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT SENT TO GALLOWS

11 February 2016 :

A death row prisoner was hanged at the Central Jail in Faisalabad in the morning. Ghafoor Masih had hacked to death his wife Nasreen and aunt Shabnam on December, 25, 2007 over a domestic feud. He was sentenced to death on November 22, 2008.
 
(Sources: The Nation, 10-Feb-2016)

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PAKISTAN: SENATE PASSES BILL TO END DEATH PENALTY FOR KEY OFFENCES

22 July 2025

A bill seeking to abolish the death penalty for harbouring hijackers and for publicly stripping a woman of her clothes was passed on July 18, 2025 by the Senate amidst voices of dissent from both sides of the aisle.

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USA - Mid-Year Review: New Death Sentences Low, Increase in Executions

22 July 2025

Death Penalty Information Center analysis

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USA - ACLU Report Shows How Death Penalty Jury Selection Discriminates

22 July 2025

Against Black Americans, Women, and People of Faith

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IRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on July 20

22 July 2025

Abdoljalil Derakzehi, Nematollah Shahnavazi, and Dariush Shahbakhsh

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IRAN - Mohammad Ahmadkhani executed in Aligudarz on July 19

22 July 2025  Read everything

PAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO MURDER ACCUSED

21 July 2025

Gujrat district and sessions judge awarded the death sentence to a murder accused and also imposed a fine of Rs0.5 million.

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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.