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
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Brothers Ali and Jasem Manian executed in Isfahan on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk executed in Fars province on December 24
930 executions in 2024
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Farahmand executed in Shiraz on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahm Khani executed in Navahand on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 48th week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulrahman Eshaqzahi executed in Mashhad on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Khosravi and Davood Qalijkhani executed in Birjand on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asghar Ghaffari executed in Qom on December 24
DECEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Singer Parastoo Ahmadi and Musicians Charged Over Virtual Concert
DECEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Loghman Ahmadi Aghdam executed in Urmia on December 23
DECEMBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Johari and Karim Oladi executed in Qazvin on December 22
DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soltan Jahantigh executed in Zahedan on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arman Samadi executed in Isfahan on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashkan Parseh executed in Isfahan on 21 December
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Moradian executed in Kermanshah on December 21
DECEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Kabiri executed in Miandoab on December 19
DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on December 18
Hassan Ali Yousefi, Majid Jamshidi, Sohrab Ahmadipour, Abdolbari Pakouhi, Farzad Nowruzi, and Rastgouyi Kondelaj
- DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shams executed in Hamedan on December 18
914 executions so far in 2024
DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahim Barin and Jamal Naboureh (Noboure) executed in Mahabad on December 18
DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Jamshidian and Jebrael Naseri were executed in Rasht on December 14 and 18
- DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shamsollahi executed in Hamedan on December 18
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN 71st Resolution Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Violations, Targeted Repression of Women
- DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jamal Asgarabadi executed in Sari on December 17
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 3 men executed in Sari on December 17
- DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Mohammadi Khiareh at Imminent Risk of Execution
Kurdish political prisoner
DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Seyedi Bukani executed in Miandoab on December 16
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghorban Razi and Mohammad Kasrani executed in Tabriz on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Mirzapour executed in Gorgan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Men Executed in Zahedan on December 15
Mohammad Vazir Roudini, Yaghoub Barahouyi Moghaddam, Elias Tardast and Alireza Galebacheh
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men + 1 woman executed in Yazd on December 15
Mohammad Ali Kharkouhi, Reza Kharkouhi, Abdolbaset Toutazehi, Abdolnasser Toutazehi, Ne’matollah Toutazehi, Salah Rahimi + unidentified woman