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.
Latest news
- JUNE 7, 2022MaldivesDEATH PENALTY
MALDIVES 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 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 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Six men executed in Gorgan Prison on June 6
- 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 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Karimi executed in Rasht on June 2
JUNE 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Khanjani and Farhad Ramezanian 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
- MAY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Saveh
Exact place and date of execution unknown
- MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Sarhadi executed in Isfahan on May 29
- MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahab … executed in Mashhad Central Prison on May 29
MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on May 29
MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Hassanlou executed in Zanjan on May 29
MAY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidollah Sahrai executed in Chabahar on May 28
MAY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Gorgij executed in Zabol Prison on May 28
179 executions since the beginning of the year
- MAY 25, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Autopsy Reports: Recently Executed Oklahoma Prisoners Had Fluid in Lungs
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ladan Molasaeedi, a woman, executed in Qarchak on May 25
Fifth woman to be executed in 2022
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on May 25
Karim Bagheri, the football player, saved 2 men
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - R.A. executed on May 25
Location of the execution not specified
MAY 25, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Juan Segundo ineligible for death penalty
MAY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Gorgan Prison on 24 May 2022
Mostafa Hamidzadeh, Houshang Bagheri Alimorad (surname unknown) and Nasser Moghadam
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed on 23 May in Amol prison
135th since September 2013
MAY 23, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DANISH MAN SENTENCED TO DIE FOR KILLING WIFE, DAUGHTER
A Nigerian court on 20 May 2022 sentenced a Danish man to death after finding him guilty of killing his wife, a Nigerian, and his 3-year-old daughter at their residence in the West African country in 2018.
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Zanjan on May 23
MAY 23, 2022ArkansasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arkansas. No execution for mentally disabled Alvin Jackson
The U.S. Supreme Court rules