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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JANUARY 23, 2023South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: CABINET UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY
The Government of South Sudan has said it will not abolish the death penalty and insists it is a deterrent to prevent serious crimes, Africa-Press reported on 22 January 2023.
JANUARY 22, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH-ROW CONVICT HANGED IN KASHIMPUR JAIL
A death-row convict was hanged at the Kashimpur Central High Security Jail in Gazipur on 22 January 2023 night.
JANUARY 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Omid Karamali executed in Karaj on January 22
JANUARY 19, 2023TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. 2 officials fired after scathing report on lethal injection execution errors
JANUARY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Jalilvand and Akbar Ahmadi executed in Hamedan on January 19
JANUARY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamel Doudkanlou and Seyyed Farhad Hosseini executed in Salmas on January 19
JANUARY 18, 2023North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER RI YONG-HO LIKELY EXECUTED LAST YEAR
Former North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho appears to have been executed last year, a Japanese newspaper reported on 4 January 2023.
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghodrat Zibarom executed in Ilam on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sharaf Khan Akbari + Unk. executed in Karaj on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nima Vahidi and Omid Karimi executed in Isfahan on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Sheikh Panahi executed in Isfahan on January 18, 2023
JANUARY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamel Dodkanlou and Farhad Hosseini executed in Salmas on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: VULCANIZER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ROBBING NURSE
A 32-year-old vulcanizer, Chidozie Onyinchiz, on 17 January 2023 was sentenced to death by hanging by an Ikeja Special Offences Court, presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada.
JANUARY 15, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Airgas refuses to supply nitrogen for executions
JANUARY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Tahmasebi executed in Bandar Abbas on January 17
The news published on March 13
JANUARY 14, 2023United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari
Accused of spying for Great Britain
- JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on January 14
Already 31 executions in the first 2 weeks of the year
JANUARY 12, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Scott Eizember executed on January 12
JANUARY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maher Eyluli and Ali Abbaszadeh executed in Shiraz on January 12
- JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Haji executed in Karaj on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 inmates executed in Arak Prison on January 11
Ali Geravand + 4 unknown
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UK. British-Iranian Alireza Akbari at risk of imminent execution
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two Inmates Executed in Rasht and Gorgan on January 11
Milad Ashoob and Shahram Mortazavi
JANUARY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Gholizadeh executed in Rasht on January 11
JANUARY 10, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Robert Fratta, 65, White, was executed
JANUARY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Arab Gicheh executed in Karaj on January 10
- JANUARY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Karmi executed in Arak on January 10
Already 30 executions since the beginning of the year
JANUARY 10, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH-ROW INMATE HANGED IN KASHIMPUR JAIL
A death-row convict was hanged on 8 January 2023 at the Kashimpur Central High Security Jail in Gazipur. In a robbery and rape case, Saiful Islam Rafique, alias Saidul Islam Rafique, 50, was condemned to death.
JANUARY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalegh Khizirzadeh executed in Bandar Abbas on January 9