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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MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Mohammadi executed in Kermanshah on May 23
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bandar Abbas on May 23
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Bazi executed in Gorgan on May 23
(first name unknown)
- MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahrooz Sokhanvari executed in Gohardasht on May 20
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 20
Saeed Garavand, Samad Garavand, and Shahab Mansourinesb Garavand
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asif Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on May 20
295 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 20, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES TWO MEN IN BAIDOA
Somali military court in Baidoa executed two men by firing squad in Baidoa on the morning of May 18, 2023.
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shaban Yousefi executed in Gohardasht on May 20
MAY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on May 19
Yaghoub Hassani, Mazhar Davari, Ali Mehrdel, Kazem Ghofrankhah
MAY 19, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Joseph Clifton Smith cannot be executed due to intellectual disability
MAY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi executed in Isfahan on 19 May
Accused of a 'political' crime
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mustafa Salehi executed in Sanandaj on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Kaimi executed in Sanandaj on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on May 18
Hossein Poursheikh, Omid Jan Abadi, Nabiollah Zaboli + Unk
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cousins Mostafa and Farhad Vafayi executed in Rasht on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 18
Ali Khoramshah Amrayi, Najaf Soleiman Reshad, Firouz Yarinejad + Unk
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Rigi executed in Jiroft on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - An man Afghan executed in Gohardasht on 18 May
Identified as Saeed, or Masoud
- MAY 17, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE EXECUTES SECOND PRISONER IN 3 WEEKS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Singapore on May 17, 2023 hanged a man for trafficking drugs, authorities said, in the city state’s second execution in three weeks.
MAY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Borzu Chaqazardi and Saeed Najafi executed in Kermanshah on May 17
MAY 16, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR FORMING TERRORIST GROUP TO CARRY OUT ATTACKS WITHIN KINGDOM
A Saudi national in al-Qassim was executed on May 15, 2023 for forming and orchestrating a terrorist group.
MAY 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sha’aban Yousefi executed in Gorgan on May 16
MAY 15, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED IN EASTERN PROVINCE FOR MURDERING EX-WIFE
A Saudi national in the Eastern Province was executed on May 13, 2023 for killing his ex-wife, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Bandarabbas and Minab prisons on May 15
Abdolrahman Mousazehi, Jalal Rigi + 3 unk.
- MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 man executed in Fereydun Kenar on May 15
Identified only as M. A.
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Padayar and Peyman Akbari Birgani executed in Khorramabad on May 15
MAY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Arjumandi and Kayumars Menbari executed in Sanandaj on May 14
- MAY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 12
MAY 11, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED IN EASTERN PROVINCE FOR ATTACKING POLICE STATION
A Saudi national in the Eastern Province was executed on May 9, 2023 for attacking a police station, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
- MAY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Shabanzadeh executed in Rasht on May 11