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 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 PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Brahui executed in Zahedan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kiomars Parvaneh and Hasan Hojjati executed in Qazvin 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, 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 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmed Panahi Khanqa executed in Ardabil on September 12
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Aghosh executed in Zanjan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Agha Mohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Noormohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men and 1 woman executed in Zahedan on September 10
142nd woman to be executed in 9 years
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Brahui executed in Birjand on September 10
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 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Allah Nour Salarzehi executed in Minab Prison on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed at an undisclosed prison on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALILAND: 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 PENALTYIRAN - Ramezan Jafarzadeh and Mohammad Mohammadi-Ghaed executed in Shiraz on September 7
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Tabriz in the last days
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYIRAN - 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.