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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DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Shahozahi executed in Shiraz on December 21
- DECEMBER 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on December 20
Mehdi Kamrani Far + 2 unknown
DECEMBER 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Akbari + unknown executed in Sari on December 18
DECEMBER 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 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 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 PENALTYUSA DPIC 2022 Year End Report
22 death sentences and 18 executions in 2022
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirza-Beigi executed in Qazvin on 15 December
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Shariati executed in Kerman “in mid December”
The news reached the NGOs only on January 27, 2023.
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadali Seyedi executed in Qazvin on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Heidarzadeh executed in Zanjan on December 15
617 executions since the beginning of the year
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Amini and Amir Abbasi executed in Rasht on December 15
- 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, 2022EthiopiaDEATH PENALTYETHIOPIA: FEDERAL POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SOMALI REGION MP
An Ethiopian federal police officer was sentenced to death on 12 December 2022 by a military court in Jigjiga for the shooting death of Somali region MP Juweria Subcis in late October.
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.
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Narouei executed in Shiraz on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Isa Narouei executed in Zahedan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Arak on December 12
Mohammad Imani, Ehsan Naseri, Mostafa Kashi + 2 unk
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Payam Nourollahi Executed in Gorgan on December 12
604 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Hosseini and Ali Seyyedkhani executed in Qazvin on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Alizadeh and Ebrahim Broujerdi executed in Khorramabad on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Majidreza Rahnavard in Mashhad on December 12
DECEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Ghasemizadeh executed in Taybad on December 11
DECEMBER 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN- Iran Human Rights Monitor Annual Report 2022
- DECEMBER 8, 2022AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN CARRY OUT 1ST PUBLIC EXECUTION SINCE AFGHAN TAKEOVER
The Taliban authorities on 7 December 2022 executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents took over Afghanistan last year.
DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mohsen Shekari executed this morning
- DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shayan Hassanpour (Hassanzadeh) executed in Maku on December 8