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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MAY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Saveh
Exact place and date of execution unknown
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 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Sarhadi executed in Isfahan on May 29
MAY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahab … executed in Mashhad Central Prison 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, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Juan Segundo ineligible for death penalty
MAY 25, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Autopsy Reports: Recently Executed Oklahoma Prisoners Had Fluid in Lungs
MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on May 25
Karim Bagheri, the football player, saved 2 men
MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ladan Molasaeedi, a woman, executed in Qarchak on May 25
Fifth woman to be executed in 2022
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - R.A. executed on May 25
Location of the execution not specified
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, 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
MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Sorkhrou and Abbas Kamali executed in Minab on May 23
MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed on 23 May in Amol prison
135th since September 2013
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Morad Fazeli executed in Shirvan Prison on May 22
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Elias Q. executed in Mashhad Prison on May 22
176 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolbari Rigi, and Ms Hayati, a woman, executed in Shiraz on May 22
MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdollah Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on May 21
MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on May 21
MAY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Gashoul executed in Isfahan on May 19
MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fardin Kaleh Houyi executed in Kermanshah on May 18
The news was released on June 21 by Hengaw
MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Nematzadeh, Mehdi Shirchian and Eshaghi executed in Amol on May 18
MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayat Ghasemi-Delfani executed in Karaj on May 18
MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghobad Narouyi executed in Birjand on May 17
MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Rezaeipour executed in Qom on May 17
MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghobad Khodakarami executed in Khorramabad on May 17