FEATURED POST

As clock ticks toward another Trump presidency, federal death row prisoners appeal for clemency

Image
President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office is putting a spotlight on the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, which houses federal death row. In Bloomington, a small community of death row spiritual advisors is struggling to support the prisoners to whom they minister.  Ross Martinie Eiler is a Mennonite, Episcopal lay minister and member of the Catholic Worker movement, which assists the homeless. And for the past three years, he’s served as a spiritual advisor for a man on federal death row.

Iran | 5 Prisoners Hanged en Masse in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, 8 in the Past Week

The clerical regime hanged en masse at least 5 of the 12 death row prisoners transferred to solitary confinement in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.

At the same time, a 30-year-old Kurdish prisoner named Farshad Farzi, a resident of Malekshahi, Ilam, was hanged in Ilam Central Prison after 8 years in prison. 

On February 21, 1 prisoner in Mashhad and another prisoner in Kashan, and on February 16 and 19, 2 prisoners were executed in the central prisons of Isfahan and Zahedan, respectively. 

Meanwhile, on Thursday, February 24, Ali Rezaei, 18, sentenced to death, committed suicide in Lakan Prison in Rasht.

The continuation of arbitrary executions on the eve of the UN Human Rights Council upcoming session affirms that the clerical regime will not last a day without repression, execution, and torture. 

The Iranian Resistance again urges the United Nations and all relevant agencies as well as the European Union and its member states to take urgent action to save the lives of death row prisoners.

Source: NCRI, Staff, February 26, 2022


🚩 | Report an error, an omission, a typo; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; submit a piece, a comment; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: deathpenaltynews@gmail.com.


Opposed to Capital Punishment? Help us keep this blog up and running! DONATE!



"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted." -- Oscar Wilde

Most Viewed (Last 7 Days)

Biden Has 65 Days Left in Office. Here’s What He Can Do on Criminal Justice.

Alabama executes Carey Dale Grayson, carries out nation's 3rd nitrogen gas execution

Singapore executes third drug trafficker in a week

Indonesia | Bali Nine prisoners to be sent home

Singapore | Imminent unlawful execution for drug trafficking

Mary Jane Veloso to return to Philippines after 14-year imprisonment in Indonesia

USA | Pro-Trump prison warden asks Biden to commute all death sentences before leaving

Texas Supreme Court Rules that a New Execution Date Can be Set for Robert Roberson