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 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 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 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Beigi executed in Kermanshah on June 9
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
JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Takrouy and Hojat Asiabani executed in Ardabil on June 8
JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Narouyi-Ghazagh executed in Birjand on June 8
JUNE 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khosro Tarek and Kamal Bayanirad executed in Ilam on June 8
JUNE 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Noor Ahmad Barangahzai executed in Isfahan on June 7
203 executions this year
JUNE 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Amouri, and Qadir Naseri executed in Ahvaz on June 7
JUNE 7, 2022MaldivesDEATH PENALTYMALDIVES TO CONTINUE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY: HOME MINISTER
Home Minister Imran Abdulla has said that the Maldives still has a policy of continuing the moratorium on implementation the death penalty.
- JUNE 6, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: JUNTA SAYS WILL CARRY OUT FIRST JUDICIAL EXECUTIONS IN DECADES
Myanmar's junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country's first judicial executions since 1990.
JUNE 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 11 men and 1 woman executed in Zahedan Prison on June 6, 2022
JUNE 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six men executed in Gorgan Prison on June 6
JUNE 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Khanjani and Farhad Ramezanian executed in Rasht on June 2
JUNE 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Karimi executed in Rasht on June 2
JUNE 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed by own his own son on June 1
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Allah Nazar Esmailzehi executed in Damghan Prison on May 31
183 executions in 2022
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Faraji executed in Isfahan on May 31
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Latifi executed in Kermanshah on May 31
MAY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Amiri-Margavi executed in Sari Prison on May 31
The news was released on July 5 by IHR