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
- 9,221
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 9,221 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.
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OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Central) on October 23
Not identified
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Armin Aghcheli executed in Gorgan on October 23
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on October 23
Salam Babakhan Jafari, Mohammad Koushki, Arman Naserzadeh, and two unidentified Afghan nationals
- OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Dorostkar and Soleiman Malekinejad executed in Maragheh on October 21 and 23
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Haji Khani and Mehran Soltani executed in Zanjan on October 23
OCTOBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Razavi Khaleghabadi executed on October 23 in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar)
OCTOBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Cheraghi executed in Qorveh on 22 October
OCTOBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Dehghani executed in Malayer on October 22
OCTOBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Sangari and Abdolgharib Maleki executed in Qom on October 22
OCTOBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Farhadzadeh and Hamid Chatrsimabeh executed in Jiroft on October 21
OCTOBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahman Sheikh-Hosseini executed in Birjand on October 20
OCTOBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 4 men executed in Tabriz on October 20
Ms Nasrin Firoozi, Siamak Mulaii (Molaei), Hassan Yousefi, Mohammad Amin Noorafkan (Nourafkan), and Mohammad …
OCTOBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Saber (Saberi) executed in Malayer on October 20
- OCTOBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Ebrahimi and Behzad Ghaffari (Ghafari) executed in Tabriz on October 19
OCTOBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Abbasi executed in Rasht on October 19
- OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nourmorad Garavand and … Sanjari executed in Qazvin on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Karimi and Mohammad Ali Najafi executed in Isfahan on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Bameri executed in Kahnuj on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nourmorad Geravand executed in Qazvin on October 17
- OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Bamri (or Mahmoud Bamri) executed in Qom on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 more men executed in Isfahan on October 17
Mohammadreza Mahjour and Mohammad Ashoori
- OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on October 16
Abdolbari Tajik, Pasha Pashto, Javid Ahmadkhani + Rahman …
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Mokhtari executed in Shiraz on October 16
596 executions in 2024
- OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Fili and an unidentified woman executed on October 16 in Hamedan
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Jashlu executed in Qom on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Mohammadvand executed in Dezful on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Karimi Zarasavand executed in Farokhshahr on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Shirvani and Jafar Sameie executed in Zanjan on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 more executions in Karaj on October 16
2 unidentified Afghan men
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five men executed in Qom from October 6 to 16
Milad Badinlu, Shahin Dehghani, Abdolghader ..., Mohsen Khodabandehlu + Unk.