Executions
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An execution is the act by which a state puts a condemned person to death. Hands Off Cain records the cases documented by public sources: press agencies, local newspapers, human rights organisations, official statements. The figure that results is a confirmed minimum, not an estimate of the real total: several states publish no data on executions, and in some countries they are not announced even to the families.
This page collects the news on the executions recorded by the association. The totals by country and by year are in the database.
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JUNE 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Amani-Nejad and Hamed Yavari executed in Hamedan on June 11
JUNE 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Gomshadzehi executed in Kerman on June 11
JUNE 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Daryush Rahimi executed in Mashhad on June 11
In prison, not in public as the sentence said
JUNE 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Haidar Chishti + Unk executed in Torbat-e-Jam on June 11
JUNE 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeid Nasiri and Masoud Sasani executed in Karaj on June 10
JUNE 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Urmia on June 9
Jafar Mohammadpour, Ghobad Farhadi + Unk
JUNE 8, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: PASTOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING IMPREGNATED CHOIR MISTRESS, TWO OTHERS
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on June 5, 2023 sentenced a pastor, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death by hanging for murder.
JUNE 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houshang Amirzadeh executed in Qazvin on June 8
JUNE 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Doust Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on June 8
JUNE 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hasan Brahui executed in Gorgan on June 7
JUNE 6, 2023MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Michael Tisius, 42, White, executed
After Jurors Waver on Death Sentence
JUNE 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Malik Baloch Mahani and Kambiz Barzkar executed in Kerman on June 6
JUNE 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Karaj on June 6
Einollah Badri-Nejad + Unk
JUNE 5, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 3 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN SHIA-POPULATED EASTERN REGION
Saudi Arabia announced the execution of three men in the Shia-populated Eastern Province for “joining a terrorist cell, possessing weapons and armed assault on security centers and security men."
JUNE 4, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: NEPAL MAN EXECUTED AFTER CONVICTION FOR STABBING SAUDI TO DEATH
Saudi Arabia on June 1st 2023 executed a Nepali national after his conviction for stabbing a Saudi to death.
JUNE 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mohammad Zeraat and Esmail Nasiri executed in Shiraz on June 2
JUNE 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ashkan Sohrabi and Arya Parvizi executed in Kenhaj on June 1
333 executions since the beginning of the year
JUNE 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aghil Arab + Unk executed in Isfahan on June 1
JUNE 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Sheikh Arpanahi and Neemat Arzani executed in Kashan on June 1
- MAY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Gohardasht on May 31
Hossein Rusta, Nader Nouri, Hassan Nourollahi 147 executions in the month of May
MAY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Narouyi executed on May 30
At the time of writing the location is unknown
MAY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 30
- MAY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - EzatAli Sabzi and Mohammad Kazemi executed in Karaj on May 30
MAY 30, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES TWO BAHRAINIS ACCUSED OF ‘TERRORISM’
Saudi Arabia has put to death two Bahrainis accused of plotting “terrorist” operations, the Saudi Ministry of Interior said on May 29, 2023, raising the number of similar executions to nine this month.
MAY 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Raisi Played Direct Role In Executing Prisoners In 80s
MAY 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Woman executed in Mashhad on May 28
Monireh Nourikia is the 212nd woman executed in Iran since 2007
MAY 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Rahman Mozafari executed in Sanandaj on May 28
After 16 years on death row
MAY 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Minaei executed in Meshkin Shahr on May 28
MAY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Noorullah Taymuri executed in Zahedan on May 27
MAY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Amin Valinia executed in Khorramabad on May 27