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 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Ghaed-Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on September 3
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Qanbarzahi and Ainullah Qanbarzahi executed in Zahedan 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, 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
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH 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 PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Khosravi executed in Qom on September 1
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 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammed Hossein Kahrari executed in Arak 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, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. James Coddington, now 50, White, was executed
10th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA
AUGUST 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Saroni executed in the last days of August in Gonbad-e Kavus
AUGUST 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On August 24 five men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison
AUGUST 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Karami executed in Neishabur Prison on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men and 1 woman executed in Shiraz on August 22
141st woman executed in Iran since summer of 2013
AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolfazl Sharifi executed in Qazvin on August 22
- AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Kamali executed in Dastgerd prison on 22 August
- AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moein Atashbar executed in Saravan on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Brahui executed in Iranshahr on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Zahedan on August 20
One, Omid Alizahi, was a juvenile offender
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Piri executed in Zabol on August 20
AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 18
Saeed Kashani, Khodarahm Narouyi, Hamid Narouyi, Seyed Abbas Mousavi and Amir Ali Shahiki
AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 11 prisoners executed in Arak prison
On August 14, 17, and 18, 2022
- AUGUST 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 18
Amir Shahiki, Abbas Mousavi, Hamid Narooie, Khodarahm Narooie, and Saeed Kashani