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 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran executed Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab
For “terrorism”
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Samiei and Tahmaseb Kavousi executed in Zanjan on May 6
229 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salahedin Majidi (Dodkanlu) and Abdollah Khan Mohammadi executed in Salmas on May 6
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faramarz Shakhsi executed in Urmia on May 5
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names of 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 5
Shakhsi, Mahmoudyar, Hanifi and Teymuri
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Teimouri executed in Urmia on May 5
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nour-Ahmad Zavarzahi executed in Mashhad on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Mousavi executed in Ardabil on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Qezelhesar prison, in Karaj, on May 4
Mohammad Ali Bani Ebrahimi and Mehdi Farrokhi
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Emamizadeh executed in Khorramabad on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalaladdin Rahimian-Azar executed in Rasht on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Rasht on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Edris Gorgij executed in Torbat-e-Jam on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on May 4
Saboor Shah-Bakhsh, Amir Rameshk, Abdolbasir Bazhm + 2 non identified
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Saleh and Hossein Amirabadi executed in Gohardasht on May 3
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 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hanif Khosravi executed in Neishabur on May 3
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names ot 2 of the 3 unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on May 3
Sirous ... and Behzad ...
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolhossein Emamizadeh executed on May 3 in Gohardasht
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Rajai Shahr prison on May 3
Not identified
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 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa and Ehsan Gorgij executed in Bandarabbas on May 2
MAY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aminollah Karimi Ghaljayi executed in Mashhad on May 1
MAY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Vahedi Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 1
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 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gul Mohammad Naroi executed in Zahedan on April 30