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 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrab Salehi executed in Yazd on May 15
Probably a juvenile at the time of the alleged crime
MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Bameri executed in Iranshahr on May 14
The man was unable to pay the €23.000 diya (reparation)
MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Gamshadzehi, Esmail Jahantigh and Mansour Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on May 14
Farshad Gamshadzehi may have been a juvenile offender
MAY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Fartash executed in Isfahan on May 12
143 executions in 2022
MAY 11, 2022ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Clarence Dixon was executed
At the state prison in Florence on May 11
MAY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kh. executed in Mashhad on May 11
MAY 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Shiraz on May 8
Abbas Pajmordeh, Ali Pajmordeh, Mohammad Gholamhosseini and Ali Hossein Pahan
MAY 8, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF MONARCH IN EKITI
Justice Olukayode Ogundana of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on 5 May 2022 sentenced a 42-year-old man, Ademola Omoniyi to death by hanging for the murder of a traditional ruler in the state.
MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Naderi and Abolfazl Hassan Moradi Executed in Qom on May 7
- MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 Men and a Woman Executed in Zahedan on May 7
The number of women executed in Iran since the summer of 2013 reaches 132
MAY 4, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden. Ahmadreza Djalali at Imminent Risk of Execution
The international community should react in time
MAY 3, 2022MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Carman Deck was executed
by lethal injection in Bonne Terre on Maiy 3
MAY 1, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MALAYSIAN NAGAENTHRAN EXECUTED ON DRUGS CHARGES
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a Malaysian with learning disabilities who was convicted of drug trafficking in 2010 and whose case attracted global attention, has been executed in Singapore’s Changi prison.
APRIL 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Annual Report on the Death Penalty - 2021
At least 333 people were executed in 2021
- APRIL 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fakhreddin Waledi and Hossein Joushan in executed in Isfahan on April 27
APRIL 26, 2022South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Executions Halted Amid Challenges to Constitutionality of Firing Squad and Electric Chair
APRIL 21, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Carl Wayne Buntion executed on April 21
APRIL 11, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCE IN ASSAM FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF TWO TRIBAL GIRLS
Three persons were awarded death sentence on 8 April 2022 by a fast-track court in Assam for the rape and murder of two tribal girls last year.
APRIL 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Golmohammad ... executed in the Prison of Karaj City on April 11
APRIL 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3rd Public Execution Sentence In Less Than A Month
Name not disclosed
APRIL 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 50 political prisoners await execution
A report from Javanehha
APRIL 3, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN EXPAT EXECUTED OVER KIDNAPPING AND RAPING CHILD
The Saudi Ministry of Interior on 28 March 2022 announced in a statement the execution of an Egyptian expatriate who was sentenced to death over luring two children, kidnapping a female child, torturing and raping her.
MARCH 30, 2022SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DRUG TRAFFICKER HANGED IN RESUMPTION OF EXECUTIONS
A Singaporean man on death row for drug trafficking was hanged on 30 March 2022 in the first execution in the city-state in over two years, rights activists said.
MARCH 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fakhredin Valedi and Hossein Joshan Executed in Isfahan on March 30
The news was published by IHR on 25 April
MARCH 29, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: ABUJA COURT SENTENCES FOUR MEN TO DEATH BY HANGING
The Zuba High Court sitting at the Gwagwalada High Court Division, Abuja, has sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery, Punch reported on 28 March 2022.
MARCH 29, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: PUNTLAND STATE EXECUTES SOLDIER OVER KILLING
Puntland state in northeastern Somalia on 27 March 2022 executed a government soldier accused of killing a fellow soldier.
MARCH 29, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - President Biden Signs Law Making Lynching a Federal Crime
MARCH 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Q. and Sadeq M. to be hanged in public
Charged with killing an intelligence officer in a clash
MARCH 24, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING WIFE, 4 KIDS
Saudi authorities on 23 March 2022 executed a Yemeni man convicted of murdering his wife and four children in the family’s house.
MARCH 21, 2022United KingdomDEATH PENALTYSCOTLAND: GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZES FOR WOMEN KILLED FOR WITCHCRAFT
Scotland’s Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon on 8 March 2022 in Edinburgh issued an official government pardon for thousands of women convicted of witchcraft in XVI and XVII Centuries and were killed “simply because they were women.