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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JANUARY 10, 2022South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: MAN HANGED FOR SLAUGHTERING THREE CHILDREN
Babu Emmanuel Lokiri, the young man accused of killing the three siblings at Rock City in Juba on 1st August 2020, was hanged on 7 January 2022 afternoon in Juba.
JANUARY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile Offender Mostafa Emdadi on Death Row
JANUARY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Rasoul Paghadam executed in Qazvin Prison on January 9
For murder
- JANUARY 4, 2022DEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: KANO COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR
A Kano State High Court 15, sitting at Miller road, on 14 December 2021, sentenced one Balarabe Ahmad to death by hanging for stabbing his neighbour to death.
- JANUARY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Salarzehi executed in Shiraz on January 2
For drug-related offences
JANUARY 1, 2022DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javanehha's Year End Report: Record of suppression
At least 350 executions, 3800 detentions and 112 state murders
JANUARY 1, 2022DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Eshterak executed in Zabol on January 1
DECEMBER 31, 2021DEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Penalty Information Center: Year End Report 2021
Virginia abolishes, 11 executions, 19 new death sentences
- DECEMBER 30, 2021DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 prisoners executed In Urmia on December 31, 2021
Moghadam Alizade, Hossen Abbasi Zade, Hamdullah Alami and Fayzullah Ghorbani
DECEMBER 30, 2021DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yasuj on December 30
DECEMBER 29, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 4 GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN OGUN
An Abeokuta High Court on 24 December 2021 sentenced four gang members to death by hanging for armed robbery.
DECEMBER 29, 2021DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Ali-Panahi executed in Shiraz on 29 December 2021
DECEMBER 29, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to July 1, 2021
Fewest Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Three Decades
- DECEMBER 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified prisoner executed in Rajai Shahr Prison "in recent days"
For murder
DECEMBER 27, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: IS-LINKED MAN EXECUTED FOR SUICIDE ATTACK PLOT
Saudi Arabia on 27 December 2021 executed a Yemeni man accused of plotting a suicide attack in the kingdom and of links to the Islamic State jihadist group, the interior ministry said.
DECEMBER 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Nehtani executed in Sabzevar Prison on December 27
On drug-related charges
DECEMBER 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Moradi executed in Diezelabad
No other information
DECEMBER 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Imani executed in Ardabil Prison on December 26
For murder
DECEMBER 21, 2021JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: THREE PRISONERS EXECUTED IN FIRST HANGINGS SINCE 2019
Japan hanged three prisoners on 21 December 2021, its first executions in two years, with the government saying it was necessary to maintain capital punishment in the face of continued "atrocious crimes".
DECEMBER 21, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ardavan Falahvand and Hossein Mirakarami executed in Khorramabad on December 21
At least 360 executions il 2021
DECEMBER 20, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 2021 Year End Report from the Death Penalty Information Center
11 executions and 18 new death sentences in 1 year
- DECEMBER 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Heydar Ghorbani executed in Sanandaj on December 19.
Kurdish political prisoner
- DECEMBER 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fatemeh Aslani executed in Isfahan Central Prison on December 19
129th execution of a woman since 2013
DECEMBER 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three men executed on drug-related charges in Shiraz Prison on December 19
Hamed Darvish, Naeim Shehbakhsh and Abdolkhalegh Salarzehi
DECEMBER 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Shahriari executed in Shiraz Prison
On charges of moharebeh
DECEMBER 16, 2021North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: AT LEAST 7 PEOPLE REPORTEDLY PUBLICLY EXECUTED FOR WATCHING K-POP
A new report from a human rights group has found North Korea has publicly executed at least seven people for watching or distributing K-pop videos in the last decade.
- DECEMBER 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Four men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on December 15
Hamed Mousavi, Kourosh Mazaheri, Mahmood Mohmoodi, and Davoud ...
- DECEMBER 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Khodai (Khodayi) executed in Ardabil on December 15
For murdering wife
- DECEMBER 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoumeh Zare’i executed in Amol prison on 14 December
128th woman since 2013
DECEMBER 14, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: THREE HANGED ON ‘TERRORISM’ CHARGES
Iraq on 14 December 2021 hanged three men convicted of “terrorism” offenses in a prison in the city of Nasiriyah in the mainly Shiite Muslim south, two security sources told AFP.