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.
Latest news
- DECEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 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, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Italian PM Meloni Says Repression Of Protesters In Iran ‘Unbearable’
- DECEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iranian author sentenced to death
For urging peace in Israel TV interview
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, 2022DEATH 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 PENALTYIRAN - Nizamuddin Burhanzahi executed in Iranshahr on December 23
DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Shahozahi executed in Shiraz on December 21
DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Shiraz on December 22
628 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on December 20
Mehdi Kamrani Far + 2 unknown
- DECEMBER 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: KANO CLERIC SHEIKH KABARA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, was on 15 December 2022 sentenced to death by hanging by an Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano State for alleged blasphemy.
DECEMBER 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Akbari + unknown executed in Sari on December 18
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasim Salarzahi and Aziz Gargij executed on December 17
619 executions in 2022
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Authorities arrested Taraneh Alidoosti
one of the country’s most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about protests
- DECEMBER 16, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA DPIC 2022 Year End Report
22 death sentences and 18 executions in 2022
- DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Amini and Amir Abbasi executed in Rasht on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Heidarzadeh executed in Zanjan on December 15
617 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadali Seyedi executed in Qazvin on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirza-Beigi executed in Qazvin on 15 December
- DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shariati executed in Kerman “in mid December”
The news reached the NGOs only on January 27, 2023.
- DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Tajik executed in Karaj Central Prison on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five unidentified men executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Thomas Edwin Loden, 58, White, was executed
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Khoshbakht and Hamed Nobakht executed in Hamadan on December 14
DECEMBER 13, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER RAPE, MURDER OF UNILORIN STUDENT
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of Kwara State High Court on 13 December 2022 sentenced three persons to death by hanging over the rape and murder of a 300-level undergraduate of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Omowumi Olajide.