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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AUGUST 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohiyedin Damani executed in Birjand on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Kosoul Chanthakoummane, 41, executed
AUGUST 16, 2022CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Death sentences lowered for James N. Blair and Anderson Hawthorne
To life without parole, at DA’s request
AUGUST 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Misagh Yavari executed in Khorramabad on August 15
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Rahmani and Mostafa Rasoulzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 14
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Saeed Narouyi xecuted in Sari on August 14
AUGUST 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 inmates executed in Arak Prison on August 14
Mohammad Mashhadolkoobeh, Vahid Mousakhani, Hossein Abadi and 1 unknown
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Alizadeh executed in Qom on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Bagherpour-Sarabi e Milad Badarkhani executed in Saveh on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Probable Juvenile Offender executed in Qom on August 10
Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh
AUGUST 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 inmates executed in Arak on August 10, 2022
One of the inmates identified as Mehdi Noor-Karami
AUGUST 6, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: ANOTHER DOUBLE DAWN HANGING CARRIED OUT
Two more death row inmates were hanged at dawn on 5 August 2022 for drug trafficking in a double execution at Singapore's Changi Prison, after the inmates waited 10 hours until past midnight to learn if their appeal in court would succeed.
AUGUST 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Ghareh Lar and Mojtaba Ramin executed in Qom
On August 1 and 6
AUGUST 3, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAB MILITANTS EXECUTE 7 BY FIRING SQUAD
Somali-based militant group al-Shabab on 30 July 2022 executed seven men, including a soldier, in Somalia’s southwestern region of Bay.
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Me'raji e Nemat Valipour Executed on July 31
In Shiraz and Sabzevar
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Payam Nouri executed in Ardabil on July 31
JULY 30, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Delay in James’ execution caused by IV line issue
JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayub Mirzaei executed on July 30 in Dizelabad Prison
JULY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Shah Bakhsh and Ziaullah Brahui executed in Damghan on July 27
- JULY 28, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Joe Nathan James, 50, Black, was executed
8th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA
JULY 28, 2022MassachusettsDEATH PENALTYUSA - Massachusetts. Formally Exonerates Last ‘Witch’, Elizabeth Johnson
Sentenced to death in 1693
JULY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Falah-Delavar executed in Rasht on July 28
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soheila Abedi executed in Sanandaj on July 27
139th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faranak Beheshti was executed in Urmia on July 27
138th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran cuts off man’s fingers for theft
8 others at risk of amputation
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Sanandaj on July 27
Payam Yazdani, Heyva Ahmadi and Abdollah Rahimi
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Arjmandi executed in Bam on July 27
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Senobar Jalali executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on July 27
A female Afghan national
JULY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Ghadimi and Shahram Yadegar executed in Hamedan on July 26
JULY 26, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN EXECUTES PRISONER WHO KILLED 7 IN TOKYO STREET RAMPAGE
Japan on 26 July 2022 executed a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district in 2008.