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 27, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI NATIONAL EXECUTED FOR JOINING MILITARY CAMP IN ‘HOSTILE’ COUNTRY
A Saudi national in the Eastern Province was executed on May 23, 2023 for communicating with a “hostile country” and joining a military camp there, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
MAY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Soltanian executed in Zahedan on May 27
320 executions this year,more than 2 a day
MAY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Totazehi executed in Garmsar on May 27
MAY 25, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: THREE SAUDIS EXECUTED ON TERROR CHARGES
Three Saudis on May 22, 2023 were executed in the Eastern Province for joining a military camp outside the Kingdom to serve a “terrorist organization.”
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Salari and Mohammad Daraei executed in Jiroft on May 25
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mahdi executed in public on May 25
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Piri executed in Urmia on May 25
314 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on May 25
Ali Shahriari, Ghaderbakhsh Dehani, Abdolrasould Jamishidi, Ali Salari
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Kerman on May 25
Nader Kalbali, Abdorasoul Jamshidi + 4 Unk
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Mohammadi Far executed in Sanandaj on May 25
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men, partially identified, executed in Rasht on May 25
Mohammad and Hamidreza
MAY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Alizahi executed in Kerman on May 24
MAY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Javadi executed in Zanjan on May 24
MAY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mohammad Zera’at and Esmaiel Nasiri executed in Shiraz on May 24
Hrana learned on June 2
MAY 24, 2023Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDRC: KENYAN FUGITIVE HANDED DEATH SENTENCE
A Court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced Kenyan terror suspect Salim Mohammed, alias Chotora, to death.
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 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Sharifi and Ali Tabib executed in Isfahan on May 23
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maysam Sadri executed in Zanjan on May 23
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 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahrooz Sokhanvari executed in Gohardasht on May 20
- MAY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 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 - 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