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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OCTOBER 20, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Benjamin Cole was executed
12th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA
OCTOBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Ghorbani-Bendarati executed in Isfahan on October 19
OCTOBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Sari on October 19
OCTOBER 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING THEIR FRIEND AND STEALING HIS CAR IN OGUN
A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, on October 14, 2022 sentenced two men, John Inyere and Chibuike Ukwa, to death by hanging for armed robbery and murder of their friend Chidi Nwite.
OCTOBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Karimabadi executed in Hamedan on October 16
- OCTOBER 15, 2022Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
GAZA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ‘COLLABORATION’ WITH ISRAEL
A court in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip sentenced two men to death on 13 October 2022 for "collaboration" with Israel.
- OCTOBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Qarelu executed in Neyshabur on October 15
- OCTOBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Jahangiri executed in Qom on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Dehghan Mangabadi executed in Qom, on October 15
- OCTOBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Mohammad Saeedi and Sadegh Afkendeh executed in Zanjan on October 13
OCTOBER 12, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Federal Bureau of Prisons denies transfer of John Fitzgerald Hanson
- OCTOBER 9, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE HANGS 11TH PRISONER OF YEAR: NGO
Singapore hanged a prisoner on 7 October 2022, according to anti-death penalty activists, making it the 11th of this year amid the highest rate of executions in the Southeast Asian city-state since 2010.
OCTOBER 5, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. John Henry Ramirez, now 38, Hispanic, was executed
OCTOBER 3, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAID EXECUTED FOR STABBING A SLEEPING GIRL TO DEATH
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 2 October 2022 executed an African maid who was convicted of murdering a child.
OCTOBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 prisoners executed in Shiraz prison on October 3
Identities not confirmed
OCTOBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Mashhad on October 2
Asif Shibak, Saeed Shibak, Ramadan Mazar Zahi and Awad Bilrani
- OCTOBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 prisoners executed in Shiraz prison on October 2
Hashim Mahmoodzadeh, Yusuf Ali Chalani, Abbas Fatahalian, Haider Ramezani
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasem Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on September 29
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kiomars Parvaneh and Hasan Hojjati executed in Qazvin on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Brahui executed in Zahedan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: 34-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
Cape Coast High Court in the Central Region of Ghana has sentenced a 34-year-old man to death by hanging for murder, Ghana Web reported on 20 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Alan Miller's execution was suspended after 2 hours of trying
Due to difficulties in finding the vein
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sirus Sha’alani executed in Karaj on September 19
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Hemat Estaki and an unidentified man executed in Daran Prison
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmed Panahi Khanqa executed in Ardabil on September 12
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MUFTI APPROVES EXECUTION OF JUDGE WHO KILLED TELEVISION PRESENTER WIFE
Egypt’s Grand Mufti approved the execution of Judge Ayman Haggag and an associate who were convicted of murdering Haggag’s television presenter wife, government-owned newspaper al-Ahram reported on 11 September 2022.
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Agha Mohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Noormohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Aghosh executed in Zanjan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Brahui executed in Birjand on September 10