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
- 9,141
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 9,141 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
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Maziar Falahati executed in Neyshabur on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amirhossein Rasouli executed in Saveh on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Update on Arrests at Khosrow Alikordi’s Seventh-Day Memorial
Narges Mohammadi and others
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Milad Sheikhi executed in Isfahan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Zahed Eslami executed in Kashan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Nadimi and Reza Shokouri executed in Rasht on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - … Khorami executed in Zanjan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghanbar Safari executed in Dorud on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heidar Amiri executed in Sabzevar on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Bamari executed in Kerman on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Hosseini executed in Gorgan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on December 15
Milad Sheikhi + 2
DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Khorrami executed in Zanjan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - … Norzad executed in Nowshah on December 15
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Rahimi executed in Gorgan on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran arrests Maryam Basir Tavana, member of justice-seeking families
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Abdoli executed in Dezful on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadamin Bakhtiari executed in Semnan on December 14
1950 executions since the beginning of 2025
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Saki-zadeh executed in Qom on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalegh Zolfaghari executed in Yazd on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soltan Morad Aslanpour executed in Tabriz on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Dinari executed in Arak on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Yari and Mohammad Karimi executed in Karaj on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Borujerd on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khalil Amkani executed in Bandar Abbas on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Ghane executed in Ahvaz on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamran Nouri executed in Sanandaj on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Dana executed in Ardabil on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadegh Abdi executed in Qazvin on December 14
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Torki executed in Nahavand on December 13