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
- 9,142
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 9,142 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 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Torki executed in Nahavand on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sedigheh Ghorbani, a woman, executed in Urmia on December 13
59th woman in 2025
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholam Saljouqi executed in Hamedan on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 30 of those arrested alongside Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi identified
At the memorial ceremony for lawyer Khosrow Alikurdi
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kaka Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshid Sagvand executed in Aligudarz on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamideh Jabbari and Manouchehr Ramazani executed in Qom on December 13
60 women executed in 2025
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Eitvand and Keyumars Bahrami executed in Karaj on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Sarlak executed in Dezful on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ali Moradi executed in Kermanshah on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Koulivand and Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Golmohammadi executed in Nahavand on December 13
DECEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 16 arrests, including Nobel laureate Mohammadi
During a ceremony for the suspicious death of Khosrow Alikurdi
DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Navabi executed in Taybad on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Ghahremani executed in Ferdows on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sasan Sheikhi executed in Behbahan on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kabir Mahmoudvand executed in Mahshahr on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Jahantigh executed in Sari on December 11
DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kavian … executed in Bukan on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Shamloo executed in Bojnord on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Taybad on December 11
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kourosh Sabzi giustiziato a Kashmar il 10 dicembre
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ne'mat Behirayi executed in Bushehr on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elnaz Azizi, a woman, executed in Mashhad on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan-Morad Haqi executed in Damghan on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Karim Siyadi executed in Shahr-e Kord on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Mirzaei executed in Rasht on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Sabzi executed in Malayer on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nour Mohammad Shabani executed in Sabzevar on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodabakhsh Elyasi executed in Shiraz on December 10