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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Prisoner only named as Nouramad executed in Mashhad Prison on September 5
For murder
SEPTEMBER 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karamat executed in Vakilabad Prison on September 5
For murder
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB PUBLICLY EXECUTE WOMAN IN HIIRAAN
Residents in Shaw village in the Hiiraan region say that an Al-Shabaab court sentenced a woman to death for allegedly being a soldier in the Hirshabelle Security Forces, Hiiraan Online reported on 1 September 2021.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SIX IRAQIS ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED, THREE FOR 'TERRORISM'
Six Iraqis sentenced to death, three for "terrorism", were hanged on 30 August 2021 in a prison in southern Iraq, a medical source told AFP.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to January 1, 2021
2,528 people on death rows
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Rezaeipour, 70th Person Executed on Drug Charges in 2021
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Sadeghzadeh executed in Ardabil Prison on September 1
For murder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Massachusetts 8th Graders Push to Exonerate Woman Sentenced to Death
In 1683, in Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
AUGUST 31, 2021VirginiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Virginia. ‘Martinsville 7’ Granted Posthumous Pardons 70 Years After Their Executions
Seven young Black men sentenced to death by all-white juries
AUGUST 28, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Kahrazehi Executed in Zahedan Prison on August 28
For murder
AUGUST 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Ali Hosseini executed at Qom Prison on August 24
For murder
- AUGUST 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Esfarayen
Date unknown
- AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Ghanbarzehi and Nabi Notizehi executed in Kerman Prison on August 9
On drug charges
- AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Afshar Minayi executed in Kermanshah Prison on August 9
For murder
- AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Zabiollah Hormozi executed in Mashhad Prison on August 9
At least 81 people executed on drug charges in 2021
AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Soltan-Abadi executed in Kermanshah Prison on August 9
IHR obtained information on October 8
- AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi and Seyed Esmail Kurdtamini hanged in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug related charges
- AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salim Mohammadi executed in Isfahan prison on August 8
No information about his charges
- AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Golebacheh executed in Birjand Prison on August 8
On drug charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug-related charges
- AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Hassan Eghdami and Ebrahim Afrashteh executed in Qom Prison on August 4
For drugs
AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farzad Afsordeh executed at Jiroft Prison on August 4
For murder
AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Tondroo (Tondro) executed at Karaj Central Prison on August 4
For murder
- AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arsalan Karimi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 2
For drugs
- AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Eskandar Zare, Sepehr Abbasnejad and Hamzeh Rezaei executed in Urmia on August 2
For drug-related charges
- AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad (Sajjad) Sanjari, a minor, executed in Dizelabad prison on August 2
He was 15 years old at the time of the crime
- AUGUST 1, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan ... and Ali ... executed in Mashhad Prison on August 1
For murder
- JULY 31, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Four unidentified men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 31
For murder
JULY 28, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Fatehi, Mansour Mohammadi and Mozafar ... executed in Qazvin Prison on July 28
For drug-related charges
- JULY 28, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Raisi executed at Jiroft Prison on July 28
For murder