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 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nazir Surkh Kaman executed in Roodan prison on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mirajan Mohammadi executed in Roodān on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Lawandpour executed in Karaj on January 9
JANUARY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pardel Ahmad Khanzahi executed on January 8 in Zahedan
JANUARY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Sadaqat executed in Yasouj on January 8
JANUARY 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified Woman Executed on January 7 in Karaj
JANUARY 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protesters Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini executed
Location not mentioned
JANUARY 5, 2023TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Gov. Says No Death Warrants Until Execution Protocol Problems Fixed
- JANUARY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Helvai (Sadatian) executed in Isfahan on January 5
- JANUARY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Another protester sentenced to death
Arshia Takdastan
JANUARY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rostam Abbaszadeh and Mehdi Askari executed in Karaj on January 5
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 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saadollah Karimi Serini executed in Kermanshah on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN Farhad (Farah) Karimi executed Kermanshah on January 4
JANUARY 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Amber McLaughlin executed on January 3
First known US execution of an openly transgender person
JANUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 623 executions in 2022 in Iran
273 more prisoners executed than last year
DECEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Stories of 5 men sentenced to death for alleged crimes linked to anti-regime protests
Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, Hossein Mohammadi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Reza Arya.
DECEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian author sentenced to death
For urging peace in Israel TV interview
DECEMBER 29, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian PM Meloni Says Repression Of Protesters In Iran ‘Unbearable’
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza and Mohsen Nejati executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Rahmatali executed in Shiraz on December 28
645 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Yousefi and Ebrahim Ajali executed in Karaj on December 28
DECEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At Least 100 Protesters Facing Execution or Death Sentences
476 people killed, including 64 minors and 34 women
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on December 26
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirzavand executed in Dezful on December 26
Mirzavand was 16 years old at the time arrest
DECEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elias Raisi and Ayoub Rigi executed in Zahedan on December 24
- DECEMBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nizamuddin Burhanzahi executed in Iranshahr on December 23
- DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Shiraz on December 22
628 executions since the beginning of the year