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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JUNE 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran’s Human Rights in the UN Secretary-General’s Report
JUNE 20, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN EKITI
Akinleye Seyi a.k.a. Erin has been sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery by an Ekiti State high court, Lailasnews reported on 16 June 2022.
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulrashid Sahneh executed in Gorgan on June 20
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Firuz Musalou secretly executed in Urmia Prison on June 20
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdol Latif Moradi executed in Mashhad on June 20
JUNE 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Khosravi-Baboli and Gholam Eslami executed in Shiraz on June 19
- JUNE 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shah Gholam Kanjourian executed in Babol on June 16
JUNE 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Norouzi executed in Rasht on June 16
JUNE 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on June 15
At least 56 people executed in the last two weeks
JUNE 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four more men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on June 15
Abbas Eskandarzadeh, Amir Jafari, Jamshid Akbari and Avaz Mohammadi
- JUNE 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on June 12
- JUNE 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Kiani executed in Dieselabad Prison in Kermanshah on June 12
- JUNE 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Four men executed in Zabol Prison on June 11
JUNE 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hijwan executed in Jiroft on June 13
JUNE 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vali Mohammad Rigi executed in Zahedan on June 13
JUNE 13, 2022PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Alexander McClay Williams Exonerated 91 Years After Execution
He was 16
JUNE 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Kiani Dehkiani executed in Kermanshah on June 12
JUNE 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Touraj Keshavarz and Ali Samandarnejad executed in Zanjan on June 11
JUNE 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghlich Shokouhi and Vahid Behmaram executed in Urmia on June 10
JUNE 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayub Lotfi executed on June 10 in Diezelabad prison
- JUNE 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Beigi executed in Kermanshah on June 9
JUNE 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Baba Sabzi executed in Kermanshah on June 9
JUNE 9, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: BAIDOA COURT EXECUTES CONVICTED MURDERER WHO THREW VICTIM IN THE SEWER
A court in Baidoa town on 7 June 2022 executed a man for killing a businesswoman and then dumping her body in a sewage hole in his house.
JUNE 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Amini executed in Amol Prison on June 9
- JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Takrouy and Hojat Asiabani executed in Ardabil on June 8
- JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khosro Tarek and Kamal Bayanirad executed in Ilam on June 8
- JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Narouyi-Ghazagh executed in Birjand on June 8
JUNE 8, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Frank Atwood, 66, White, was executed.
7th execution this year in the USA
JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Habibi executed in Khalkhal on June 8
JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sattar Arghandeh executed in Ilam on June 8