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SRI LANKA: MONERAGALA HC HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE

31 July 2014 :

An individual who had sexually abused and killed a six year old boy was handed the death sentence in Sri Lanka. The sentence was ordered by the Moneragala High Court Judge, Gihan H. Kulathunga. The crime was committed on  April 15, 2006 in Buttala. The perpetrator was a thirty-four-year-old resident of Koslanda in Mirisbadda.
 
(Sources: newsfirst.lk, 31/07/2014)

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INDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY IN LUDHIANA RAPE-MURDER CASE

25 March 2026

The Punjab and Haryana High Court commuted the death sentence of a 28-year-old man convicted of raping and murdering a 4-year-7-month-old child in Ludhiana, the Tribune reported on March 20, 2026.

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USA - Texas. Advocacy on the case of James Broadnax

25 March 2026

Demarius Cummings confessed "his" murders

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IRAN - Hrana Report on 25th day of war

25 March 2026

Heavy Strikes in Isfahan and Khuzestan

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IRAN - 113th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

25 March 2026  Read everything

IRAN - At Least 501 Arrested in Connection with the War

24 March 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Hengaw Report on 25th day of war

24 March 2026

6,530 killed, including 640 civilians

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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.