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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AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Soltan-Abadi executed in Kermanshah Prison on August 9
IHR obtained information on October 8
AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Ghanbarzehi and Nabi Notizehi executed in Kerman Prison on August 9
On drug charges
AUGUST 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshar Minayi executed in Kermanshah Prison on August 9
For murder
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug-related charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi and Seyed Esmail Kurdtamini hanged in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug related charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salim Mohammadi executed in Isfahan prison on August 8
No information about his charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Golebacheh executed in Birjand Prison on August 8
On drug charges
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 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassan Eghdami and Ebrahim Afrashteh executed in Qom Prison on August 4
For drugs
AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Zare, Sepehr Abbasnejad and Hamzeh Rezaei executed in Urmia on August 2
For drug-related charges
AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Karimi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 2
For drugs
AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYIRAN - Hassan ... and Ali ... executed in Mashhad Prison on August 1
For murder
JULY 31, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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
- JULY 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohandes ... executed on July 27 at Karaj Prison
For murder
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Shehbakhsh executed in Isfahan Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bakhtiar Salemi executed in Shirvan Prison on July 25
For murder
JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cousins Amir and Sohrab Heydari executed in Yazd Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
Crime not known
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Abedanpour executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
For drug related crimes
JULY 20, 2021GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: EX-JUNTA MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of the Banjul High Court on 14 July 2021 sentenced Yankuba Touray, a former Minister of Local Government and Lands to death by hanging.
JULY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Abdollahzadeh executed in Shiraz Prison on July 20
For murder
JULY 19, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY
A High Court in Abeokuta, on 16 July 2021 sentenced a 44-year-old man, Tosin Shodunke to death by hanging for armed robbery.
- JULY 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Sadeghi executed in Isfahan Prison on July 19
For drug-related charges
JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mohammadi executed in Zanjan Prison on July 18
At least 174 executions since the beginning of the year in Iran
- JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan Central Prison on July 18
Ali Bandeh Parvizi, Javad Karimian, Nasir Ahmad Baluch and Mehrdad Golshani
JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahbaz Jadidi executed in Yasuj Prison on July 18
For murder