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 19, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: EKITI COURT SENTENCES EX-SOLDIER, OTHER TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on 17 January 2022 sentenced a 36-year-old former soldier, Olasoji Damilola and 32-year-old Benson Koiki to death by hanging for armed robbery.
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Year-end report by the KHRN
NGO focuses the Kurdish minority in Iran
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Khodadadi executed in Dehdasht on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad ... executed at Adelabad Prison on January 18
JANUARY 17, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING ARMY SERGEANT
A Tunisian court has sentenced to death nine militants accused of having beheaded a soldier in 2016, a murder claimed by the Daesh group, media reported on 14 January 2022.
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valijan Rahmi executed in Qom Central Prison on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on an uncertain date
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolbaset Rigi executed in Zahedan Central Prison on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolghafar Cheshmdam-Gargij executed in Zahedan on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FORMER SPF OFFICER EXECUTED FOR KILLING CIVILIAN IN GEDO REGION
A former Somali Police Force officer was executed on 10 January 2022 for killing a civilian in Gedo region.
JANUARY 16, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FORMER SNA OFFICER EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD FOR KILLING CIVILIAN IN BELEDHAWO
A former Somali National Army officer was executed by firing squad on the morning of 11 January 2022 for killing a civilian in Belet Xaawo district in Gedo region.
JANUARY 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moslem Aghamirzayi executed in Khorramabad on January 16
JANUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Jafar Salehi, Abdolrahim Sargolzayi and Shahin Khosravi executed in Isfahan
On January 13
JANUARY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 prisoners executed on January 12 at Raja’i Shahr Prison
Iranian authorities executed 8 prisoners at down on Wednesday, January 12.
JANUARY 12, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Execution doctor paid $15,000 each time death penalty carried out
JANUARY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhang and Yasser Aliollahi executed in Zanjan Prison on January 11
For drugs
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 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Ghorbani officially died for “unknown reasons”
Executed on December 19
JANUARY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Rasoul Paghadam executed in Qazvin Prison on January 9
For murder
JANUARY 4, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 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 PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Salarzehi executed in Shiraz on January 2
For drug-related offences
JANUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javanehha's Year End Report: Record of suppression
At least 350 executions, 3800 detentions and 112 state murders
JANUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Eshterak executed in Zabol on January 1
DECEMBER 31, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Penalty Information Center: Year End Report 2021
Virginia abolishes, 11 executions, 19 new death sentences
DECEMBER 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yasuj on December 30
DECEMBER 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 prisoners executed In Urmia on December 31, 2021
Moghadam Alizade, Hossen Abbasi Zade, Hamdullah Alami and Fayzullah Ghorbani
- DECEMBER 29, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: 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, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to July 1, 2021
Fewest Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Three Decades
DECEMBER 29, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Ali-Panahi executed in Shiraz on 29 December 2021