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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- JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 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, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Falah-Delavar executed in Rasht on July 28
JULY 28, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - 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 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Arjmandi executed in Bam on July 27
- JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Sanandaj on July 27
Payam Yazdani, Heyva Ahmadi and Abdollah Rahimi
- JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Senobar Jalali executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on July 27
A female Afghan national
- JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran cuts off man’s fingers for theft
8 others at risk of amputation
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 26, 2022JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN 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.
JULY 26, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED FOR TRAFFICKING CANNABIS
Singapore hanged a 49-year-old man on 26 July 2022 for trafficking cannabis, the sixth execution in four months in the city-state.
JULY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Nourzehi and Jomeh Barakzehi executed in Isfahan on July 26
JULY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Ghadimi and Shahram Yadegar executed in Hamedan on July 26
- JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Izadi executed in Isfahan on July 25
- JULY 25, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: JUNTA EXECUTES 4 DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
Myanmar's ruling military has executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out "terror acts," it said on 25 July 2022, sparking widespread condemnation of the Southeast Asian nation's first executions in decades.
JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Mashhad on July 25
- JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Torbat-e-Jam prison on July 25
- JULY 24, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: FIFTH EXECUTION IN UNDER FOUR MONTHS CARRIED OUT
Nazeri bin Lajim, who was convicted of drug trafficking five years ago, has been hanged in Singapore’s Changi Prison.
- JULY 24, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: KILLER OF POPULAR VLOGGER LAMU EXECUTED
A Chinese man was executed by a court in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on 23 July 2022 for setting his ex-wife, who was also a Chinese Douyin influencer, on fire during livestream and caused the latter's death.
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Sabzikar publicly executed in Shiraz on of July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Narouyi and Khaled Paraki executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shokat Shehbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Zabol on July 23
Farhad Kouhkan, Davoud Amirzadeh, Hamid Jahangard and Habib Totazehi
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Sarrajul Haq Siddiqui executed on July 23 in Shiraz prison
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Sabahi and Mohammad Hossein Hasanipour executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution of 2 men and 1 woman in Yazd prison
137 women executed in Iran since 2013
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four inmates executed in Borujerd, Birjand, and Yazd Prisons
On July 11 and 21
- JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Sarband executed in in Birjand on July 20