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 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari
Accused of spying for Great Britain
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, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 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 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 PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Karmi executed in Arak on January 10
Already 30 executions since the beginning of the year
JANUARY 9, 2023DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Lawandpour executed in Karaj on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2023DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalegh Khizirzadeh executed in Bandar Abbas on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nazir Surkh Kaman executed in Roodan prison on January 9
- JANUARY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mirajan Mohammadi executed in Roodān on January 9
- JANUARY 8, 2023DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Sadaqat executed in Yasouj on January 8
- JANUARY 8, 2023DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pardel Ahmad Khanzahi executed on January 8 in Zahedan
JANUARY 7, 2023DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protesters Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini executed
Location not mentioned
JANUARY 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified Woman Executed on January 7 in Karaj
- JANUARY 5, 2023DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Another protester sentenced to death
Arshia Takdastan
JANUARY 5, 2023DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rostam Abbaszadeh and Mehdi Askari executed in Karaj on January 5
- JANUARY 5, 2023DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Helvai (Sadatian) executed in Isfahan on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2023TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Gov. Says No Death Warrants Until Execution Protocol Problems Fixed
- JANUARY 4, 2023DEATH PENALTY
IRAN Farhad (Farah) Karimi executed Kermanshah on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2023DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saadollah Karimi Serini executed in Kermanshah on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: ZAMFARA STATE GOVERNOR MATAWALLE PARDONS 9 PRISONERS AWAITING DEATH SENTENCE
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle has pardoned 46 prisoners, nine of whom had been sentenced to death by hanging, and five others that were serving life imprisonment in a Medium Correctional Centre, Gusau
JANUARY 3, 2023DEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Amber McLaughlin executed on January 3
First known US execution of an openly transgender person
JANUARY 2, 2023DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 623 executions in 2022 in Iran
273 more prisoners executed than last year