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 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Rajai Shahr prison on May 3
Not identified
- MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolhossein Emamizadeh executed on May 3 in Gohardasht
MAY 3, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Darryl Barwick executed
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Firouzkouhi and Ali Daftari executed in Qazvin on May 3
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Zarei and Lal Mohammad Shirzayi Barahouyi executed in Minab on May 3
- MAY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mousa and Ehsan Gorgij executed in Bandarabbas on May 2
MAY 2, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES FOUR MEN TO DEATH BY HANGING IN JIGAWA
A Jigawa State High Court sitting in Ringim on April 28, 2023 sentenced four men to death by hanging for murder.
MAY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Malek Dadzahi executed in Mashhad on May 2
- MAY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Vahedi Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 1
MAY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aminollah Karimi Ghaljayi executed in Mashhad on May 1
- APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gul Mohammad Naroi executed in Zahedan on April 30
APRIL 30, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED OR HEROIN DEALER
The Singapore Court of Appeal changed the death sentence of a heroin dealer to 10 years in prison on April 26, 2023, the same day that Singaporean Indian man Tangaraju Suppiah was executed for allegedly abetting in the trafficking of 1kg of marijuana (can
APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Feizollah Kavandi executed in Isfahan on April 30
APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jaber Aminifar executed in Birjand on April 30
APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Birjand on April 30
Mrs. Madina Sabzevan, Mohammad Shibak, Abdullah Zarouzhi
- APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Zahedan on April 29
APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Rahmani executed in Iranshahr on April 29
APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eid Mohammad Shadman executed on April 29
Not clear whether in Iranshahr or Zahedan
APRIL 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Zahedan on April 29
Nematollah Rigi Ladiz and Abdolsattar Shahuzehi
APRIL 26, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN HANGED FOR TRAFFICKING 1KG OF CANNABIS
Singapore on April 26, 2023 hanged 46-year-old Indian-origin Tangaraju Suppiah who was found guilty in 2018 of trafficking more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of cannabis, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from his family and activists.
APRIL 26, 2023GermanyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Sharmahd’s death sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court
German-Iranian citizen
APRIL 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Chahargosheh executed in Gohardasht on April 24
APRIL 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Nikouyi executed in Gohardasht on April 24
APRIL 21, 2023WashingtonDEATH PENALTYUSA - Washington. The state officially abolishes death penalty
APRIL 20, 2023IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 8 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ISIS ACTIVITY IN JAIL
A court in Baghdad on 18 April 2023 sentenced eight people to death for attempting to organize the Islamic State (ISIS) in prison.
APRIL 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report on the Death Penalty in 2022
At least 582 people were executed in 2022 (646 according to HoC)
- APRIL 12, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Louis Gaskin, 56, Black, executed on April 12
APRIL 5, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING IN JIGAWA
Three men have been handed a death sentence by a Jigawa State High Court, No. 8 sitting in Kaugama Local Government Area on March 31, 2023, for armed robbery and murder.
APRIL 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on April 5
ousef Juma Hosseini, Kazem Rasouli, and Ali Hossein Sadeghzadeh
APRIL 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - In Iranian year 1401, at least 701 prisoners were executed in Iran’s prisons
The Persian Year 1401 goes from March 21 2022 to March 20, 2023