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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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men and 1 woman executed in Zahedan on September 10
142nd woman to be executed in 9 years
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALILAND: 4 GET EXECUTED FOR HOMICIDES, 1 CHEATS DEATH
Somaliland government on 6 September 2022 executed four who had been convicted of wanton killing earlier.
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Allah Nour Salarzehi executed in Minab Prison on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ramezan Jafarzadeh and Mohammad Mohammadi-Ghaed executed in Shiraz on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed at an undisclosed prison on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafour Nejatpour executed in Gonbad Kavous on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed in Gohardasht on September 7
3 identified as Abolfazl Shahi, Mohammad Arab and Khosro Nourbakhsh
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yar Mohammad Eshaghzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Tabriz in the last days
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 men executed in Minab Prison on September 6
Abdolkhalegh Narouyi, Soleiman Narouyi, Abdolghafour Bahadorzadeh-Rigi, Abbas Nobakht, Mohammad Zobeiri, Mohammad Kazemi and Mohammadreza Hedayati
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Haghverdizadeh and Khalghollah Fahimzadeh executed in Taybad on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Peyman Soleimani, Aziz Yarhashemi and Shahram Kakavand executed in Karaj on September 6
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: HAMAS EXECUTES FIVE PALESTINIANS, TWO FOR ISRAEL TIES
The Hamas movement governing the Gaza Strip says it has executed five Palestinians, including two for “collaboration” with Israel.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Qanbarzahi and Ainullah Qanbarzahi executed in Zahedan on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Ghaed-Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on September 3
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Spring 2022
2,414 people on US death row, but "only" 1385 at "real risk of execution"
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2022South SudanDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH SUDAN EXECUTES REBELS DEPORTED FROM SUDAN
South Sudan on 8 August 2022 executed rebel officers who were forcefully deported by authorities in Sudan, according to a video and pictures Sudan Tribune obtained after the execution.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Khosravi executed in Qom on September 1
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ghareh Lar executed in Qom on September 1
25 days after his brother Ali’s execution in the same prison
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza Mardani executed in Isfahan on September 1
- AUGUST 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammed Hossein Kahrari executed in Arak on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Teymoori and Mohammad-Hassan Kahrari executed in Arak on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aref Maleki executed in Shiraz on August 31
AUGUST 29, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR KILLING WOMAN IN MAADI
After 20 months since the court ruling, the death sentence was carried out on 11 August 2022 for two men who were found guilty of the killing of a 24-year-old woman, Maryam Mohamed, in Cairo’s Maadi.
AUGUST 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Bargrizan executed in Bandar Abbas on August 28
AUGUST 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Sabki executed in Bandar Abbas on August 28
AUGUST 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 executions in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz on August 28
Rahim Qanbarzahi (Ghanbarzehi) and Mujtabi Khadmini Nejad (Khademinejad)
AUGUST 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Omid Ali Garavand executed in Khorramabad on August 27
413 esecuzioni in Iran dall'inizio dell'anno
AUGUST 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in a Tehran prison
AUGUST 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Saroni executed in the last days of August in Gonbad-e Kavus