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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NOVEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sultan Seifi executed in Qom on November 13
NOVEMBER 12, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES BY FIRING SQUAD AL-SHABAAB OPERATIVE IN GALKAYO
Somalia military court on 1 November 2022 executed by firing squad an Al-Shabaab operative in a public square in Galkayo, the capital of the Mudug region.
NOVEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three Men Executed in Shiraz on November 12
Vahid Pakzad, Keyvan Tajadod and an unidentified man
- NOVEMBER 11, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: TEN AL-SHABAAB CONVICTS EXECUTED WITHIN TWO WEEKS
The Somalia military court on 3 November 2022 executed two Al-Shabaab convicts as part of the ongoing fight against the militants who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, making it a total of 10 people to be killed within two weeks
NOVEMBER 9, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Tracy Beatty executed on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB HITMEN EXECUTED A DAY AFTER A DEADLY CAR BOMBINGS
Somalia's military court on 31 October 2022 executed three Al-Shabaab hitmen in the latest move which comes just a day after the militants raided downtown Mogadishu, killing over 100 people while injuring scores.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Five prisoners executed in Arak prison
Saeed Moghadam, Sajjad Yousefi, Nasser, Reza, and Nasser Iranshahi
- NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shoaib Askani and Eshagh Askani executed in Zahedan on November 8
- NOVEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rashed Baloch and Ishaq Ishaq executed in Zahedan on November 8
NOVEMBER 7, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: TWO ISIS MILITANTS EXECUTED IN MOGADISHU
Somali officials on 26 October 2022 executed two ISIS militants convicted for carrying out assassinations on behalf of the al-Shabab terrorist group, marking the second execution of Islamist militants in a week.
- NOVEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nematollah Barahouyi and Amanollah Alizehi executed in Zahedan on November 6
- NOVEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 inmates executed in Arak on November 6
unidentified
- NOVEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Janali Gholamhosseini executed in Hamadan on November 3
- NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on November 2
- NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men executed in Qaen Prison on November 2
Abdolsaboor Narouyi and an unidentified man
NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Birjand prison on November 2
Nur Ahmad Totazahi, Abdullah Totazahi (Rigi). Mohammad Khushal and ... Khosravi
NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Tadzari executed in Ardabil on November 2
- NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 1
Amir Ghoncheh (Ghancheh), Jafar Tourjan (Turjan) and an unidentified man
NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Mulaii executed in Zanjan on November 1
OCTOBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Boroujerd on October 27
202nd execution of women in Iran since 2007
- OCTOBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Borujerd on October 27
202nd execution of women in Iran since 2007
- OCTOBER 25, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTY
DEATH ROW PRISONERS LAUNCH LEGAL CHALLENGE TO JAPAN’S NO-NOTICE EXECUTIONS
Two prisoners sentenced to death in Japan have launched a legal challenge against how the country applies the death penalty, Vatican News reported on 24 October 2022.
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Janipour executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Valizadeh executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 500 executed in Iran since the beginning of the year
No other country in the world carries out as many executions
OCTOBER 24, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: JUSTICE SAMUEL ASIEDU ADVOCATES ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, nominated to the Supreme Court, has advocated the abolition of the Death Penalty.
- OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Esfandiari executed in Barazjan on October 24
OCTOBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Zainivandnejad executed in Borujerd on October 23
OCTOBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three Baloch prisoners executed on 22 October
Mohammad Zarakzahi in Zabol, and Juma Gumshadzahi and Habil Shahnawazi in Zahedan
- OCTOBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Faraji executed in Aligudarz on October 22
501 executions since the beginning of 2022