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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on September 21
Saeed Ghobadi, Kazem Jamashourani and Hadi Nowruzi
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Yari executed in Arak on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Emad Keshvari executed in Taybad on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kaviar Khediripour executed in Mahabad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali-Mansour Vafaee executed in Tabriz on September 20
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Malayer on September 20
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran’s Expanding Prison Protest Movement against Executions
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Afagh executed in Mashhad on September 18
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Calling for Life-Saving Medical Treatment for Zeinab Jalalian
Iran’s Longest Serving Female Political Prisoner
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Mirabadi executed in Zanjan on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghafoor Behboudi and Abdolsalam Mir Panjshir executed in Taybad on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nadim Ashrafzadeh and Abdolqader Sargolzaei executed in Isfahan on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Shahbazi executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Farshad Bourkzehi executed in Gonabad on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrdad Tajik executed in Shiraz on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 17
Abbas Yazdani, Nadim Ashrafzadeh and Abdolghader Sargolzayi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men execute in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
Ali Esmaili, Majid Hosseini, Omid Hassanzadeh, Rahman Sarlak, Babak Shahbazi + Unk Afghan
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Zahra Fotouhi, and Morteza Shirkhani executed in Tabriz on September 17
1069 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Yeganeh executed in Semnan on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Hashami executed in Miandoab
The Execution Leads to Revenge Killings
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Hosseini executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Sabzevar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Pirabbasi executed in Sabzevar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fazel Sohrabi executed in Neishabur on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisagh Rezayi and Hossein Yaganeh executed in Semnan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Yousefzehi executed in Gonabad on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolsamad Salarzehi and Abdolmajid Barahouyi executed in Birjand on September 16
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Okhatizadeh and Akbar Emami executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamreza Hariri and Nemat Khodabakhsh executed in Sari on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Noormohammad Chegali + Unk executed in Dastgerd on September 16