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.
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- NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Yazd on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mustafa … executed in public in Bastam on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Chahar-Bashi executed in Gorgan on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Fathipour and Amin Chaharbashi executed in Gorgan on November 25
- NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholamali Eftekhari executed in Neyshabur on November 25
- NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karam Yousefian and Heshmat Shiravand executed in Khorramabad on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Ajoudani executed in public on November 25
- NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karim Rafiei executed in Zanjan on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Alipour executed in Behbahan on November 25
- NOVEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahram Shamsi executed in Ardabil on November 25
NOVEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On November 22 Iran surpassed 1,700 executions in 2025
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Homayoun Shekarollahi executed in Borujerd on November 22
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Amini executed in Kashan on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mirza Janalizadeh executed in Arak on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Nosrat Piryan executed in Bam on November 23
NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahman Moloudi executed in Ahvaz on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Hossein Akbari executed in Dezful on November 23
NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Golpayegani executed in Semnan on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahmoud Ali Soltanabadi and … Maleki executed in Qom on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Nazemi executed in Ahvaz on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Arak on November 23
Mirza Janalizadeh + 2
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Shokri executed in Birjand on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arsalan Behbahani executed in Sabzevar on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Saqaei executed in Dorud on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Amini and Ashkan Sohrabi executed in Kashan on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahmorad Dehqani + 1 executed in Shiraz on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Maragheh on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Froohandeh executed in Ardabil on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kambiz Forrokhi executed in Ilam on November 23
- NOVEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nemat Gholami executed in Kashmar on November 23