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 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on November 2
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 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Qaen Prison on November 2
Abdolsaboor Narouyi and an unidentified man
NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Mulaii executed in Zanjan on November 1
NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 1
Amir Ghoncheh (Ghancheh), Jafar Tourjan (Turjan) and an unidentified man
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, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Janipour executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Valizadeh executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTYDEATH 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 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
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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Dehghan Mangabadi executed in Qom, on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Jahangiri executed in Qom on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Qarelu executed in Neyshabur on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2022Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: 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 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYSINGAPORE 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