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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- MARCH 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Naderi executed in Dezful Prison on March 3
MARCH 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Shahsavand executed in Isfahan on March 2
MARCH 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Vahid Tabataba’I executed in Gohardasht Prison on March 2
77 executions since the beginning of the year
MARCH 2, 2022North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: DAUGHTER OF HIGH-RANKING CADRE ALONG WITH BOYFRIEND EXECUTED FOR WATCHING AND DISTRIBUTING S. KOREAN VIDEOS
The daughter of a high-ranking cadre along with her boyfriend have been publicly executed for watching and distributing South Korean films, soap operas, and entertainment programs.
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date 3 men executed in Shiraz
Fahim Afghani, Mehrdad Moqaddas and Hassan Gholam Shahi "in the second week of March"
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date Mohammad Reza Heidari executed in Shiraz
"first week of March"
FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile offender Mohammadreza Hadadi released
(Also Mohammad-Reza Haddadi)
FEBRUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PAKISTANI-AMERICAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BEHEADING GIRLFRIEND
A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on 24 February 2022, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.
FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Heydar Ghorbani executed in Khorramabad on February 27
FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jasem Ghanbari executed in Jiroft on February 27
FEBRUARY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 Men Executed for Murder in Rajai Shahr Prison
Hamed Azizi, Mehran Jafari, and 3 unidentified men
FEBRUARY 23, 2022SyriaDEATH PENALTYSYRIA REGIME EXECUTED DOZENS OF MEN IN MILITARY PRISON (REPORT)
The Syrian regime has executed dozens of young men from Eastern Ghouta inside the Sednaya Military Prison, Middle East Monitor reported on 22 February 2022, citing a local media group.
FEBRUARY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Zare executed in Isfahan Prison on February 22
The news was reported on March 10 by IHR
FEBRUARY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Farzi (Farzin) executed in Ilam on February 22
FEBRUARY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified Man Executed in Kashan Prison on February 21
FEBRUARY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified prisoner executed in Mashhad on February 21
- FEBRUARY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Gh. Executed in Mashhad on February 21
FEBRUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Kheradmand Executed in Zahedan on February 19
FEBRUARY 17, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: JORDANIAN EXECUTED FOR MURDERING MAN
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry has announced the execution of Jordanian expatriate man for strangling to death a Saudi man in Jazan, southwest of the Kingdom.
FEBRUARY 17, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Gilbert Postelle, 35, White, was executed
- FEBRUARY 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kazem Yousefi Executed in Isfahan on February 16
FEBRUARY 15, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES A GOVERNMENT SOLDIER IN PUBLIC
Al-Shabaab militants executed a Somali National Army soldier in a public square in Gambole area of Jowhar, the capital of Hir-Shabelle region, Somali Dispatch reported on 12 February 2022.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mokhtar Valizadeh executed in Shiraz on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Idris Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan prison on February 13
- FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mokhtar Valizadeh executed in Shiraz on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mossayeb Faraji executed in Dizelabad Prison on February 13
FEBRUARY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mosayeb Faraji executed in Dizelabad on February 12
FEBRUARY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javaid Rehman’s new report on human rights situation in Iran
The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran
FEBRUARY 9, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA -Published "Death Row USA" updated to October 1, 2021
2,455 people on death row
FEBRUARY 7, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Autopsy for John Grant shows fluid in lungs, aspiration on vomit
Executed on October 28