Iran
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 869
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 2,156
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The 1999 figures for capital sentences and executions...
- News items in the archive
- 8,610
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Iran is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 869 executions in the country, against 2,156 the year before. The archive holds 8,610 news items on Iran, from 1999 to today.
Iran is one of the countries where the association records the highest number of executions each year. The usual method is hanging, and capital punishment applies to a wide list of offences: murder, drug offences, offences against state security, sexual offences, and charges such as moharebeh, enmity against God, which allow very broad application.
Many executions are never announced. They emerge from local sources, from human rights organisations and from families. For Iran, more than anywhere else, the archive's count is a documented minimum.
Latest news
- AUGUST 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 awaiting execution of blinding sentence
One woman and two men
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Me'raji e Nemat Valipour Executed on July 31
In Shiraz and Sabzevar
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Payam Nouri executed in Ardabil on July 31
- JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ayub Mirzaei executed on July 30 in Dizelabad Prison
- JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Ebrahimi and Salar Nasiri executed in Urmia on June 30
JULY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Shah Bakhsh and Ziaullah Brahui executed in Damghan on July 27
- JULY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Falah-Delavar executed in Rasht on July 28
- JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Arjmandi executed in Bam on July 27
- JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Sanandaj on July 27
Payam Yazdani, Heyva Ahmadi and Abdollah Rahimi
- JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Senobar Jalali executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on July 27
A female Afghan national
- JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
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8 others at risk of amputation
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soheila Abedi executed in Sanandaj on July 27
139th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faranak Beheshti was executed in Urmia on July 27
138th woman since 2013
JULY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Nourzehi and Jomeh Barakzehi executed in Isfahan on July 26
JULY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Ghadimi and Shahram Yadegar executed in Hamedan on July 26
- JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Izadi executed in Isfahan on July 25
JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Mashhad on July 25
- JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Torbat-e-Jam prison on July 25
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Sabzikar publicly executed in Shiraz on of July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Narouyi and Khaled Paraki executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shokat Shehbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Zabol on July 23
Farhad Kouhkan, Davoud Amirzadeh, Hamid Jahangard and Habib Totazehi
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 executions in Qom Central Prison also known as Langroud Prison
3 on 23 July, one on 9 July
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Sarrajul Haq Siddiqui executed on July 23 in Shiraz prison
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Sabahi and Mohammad Hossein Hasanipour executed in Shiraz on July 23
- JULY 22, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Brussels Court suspended the transfer of Assadollah Assadi
- JULY 21, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Belgium Ratifies Much-Criticized Prisoner Swap Treaty With Iran
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution of 2 men and 1 woman in Yazd prison
137 women executed in Iran since 2013
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four inmates executed in Borujerd, Birjand, and Yazd Prisons
On July 11 and 21
- JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Qom on July 20