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 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 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 PENALTYSINGAPORE: 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 PENALTYCHINA: 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 - Unidentified man executed in Qom on July 20
JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dariush Khazai and Mahmood Sadeghian executed in Dastgerd Prison on July 20
- JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Sarband executed in in Birjand on July 20
JULY 14, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: EKITI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING BROTHER
49-year-old Akinola Ademola has been sentenced to death by hanging for offences of armed robbery and murder, of his elder brother in Ekiti State, Within Nigeria reported on 13 July 2022.
JULY 13, 2022AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: WATCHDOG ALLEGES TALIBAN ‘SUMMARILY’ EXECUTED AT LEAST 100 SUSPECTED ISLAMIC STATE MEMBERS
Taliban security forces in eastern Afghanistan have extrajudicially killed dozens of suspected members and supporters of a local affiliate of the Islamic State terrorist group, according to Human Rights Watch.
JULY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farzad Garavand and Mohammad Hatami executed in Karaj on July 13
JULY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Safari and Amirhossein Abadi executed in Isfahan
On June 20 and July 13
JULY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ilam Prison on July 13
- JULY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Asghar Khalili executed in Isfahan on July 13
JULY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Ch executed in Mashhad on July 12
JULY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Moradgholi executed in Sari Prison on July 12
JULY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Jamshidi executed in Sari on July 12
- JULY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Jolfa Prison
Possibly on July 11
JULY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Rahmani and Mehrollah Rigi executed in Qom on July 9