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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- FEBRUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 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 PENALTY
IRAN - Mossayeb Faraji executed in Dizelabad Prison on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mokhtar Valizadeh executed in Shiraz on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Idris Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan 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, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mirza Rouhifar executed in Aligoudarz Prison on February 7
FEBRUARY 7, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Autopsy for John Grant shows fluid in lungs, aspiration on vomit
Executed on October 28
FEBRUARY 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Tahmatan and Behzad Tahmatan executed in Ardabil on February 6
- FEBRUARY 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Rezaei wrongly executed in 2018
For murders Behzad Tahmtan received the death penalty for
FEBRUARY 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khatoun Hamidi hanged in Qazvin on February 5
- FEBRUARY 3, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES MAN BY FIRING SQUAD FOR ALLEGED SPYING
Al-Shabaab militants have announced the execution of a man who they accused of spying for the Ethiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF] working for AMISOM and the Southwest regional troops, Garowe reported 1 february 2022.
FEBRUARY 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Najibullah Gorgij executed in Mashhad on February 3
- FEBRUARY 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hafizaullah Barahooye executed in Zahedan on February 3
FEBRUARY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man "recently" executed in Rajai Shahr Prison
Sentenced for murder based on qassameh testimony
- FEBRUARY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Shiraz on February 2
- FEBRUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - On unspecified date Mohammad Anbarzehi executed in Shiraz
"in February"
- JANUARY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Afaridoun executed in Zahedan on January 30
JANUARY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi executed in Maragheh on January 30
On sodomy charges
- JANUARY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nasser Sohrabzehi Executed in Zahedan
JANUARY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Kaveh executed in Rasht Prison on January 29
JANUARY 27, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Donald Anthony Grant, 46, Black, was executed
JANUARY 27, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Capital Punishment, 2020 Statistics
Death Row Below 2,500 First Time in 29 Years
JANUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mir Soltan Amiri executed in Urmia on January 27
On drug-related charges