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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JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Babak Aslani and Mohsen Asl-Hosseini executed in Urmia Prison on July 18
For murder
JULY 17, 2021BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ISLAMIST EXTREMIST EXECUTED FOR 2005 BOMB ATTACK
Bangladesh has executed a hardline Islamist for a 2005 bomb attack in which eight people died.
JULY 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in a Tehran prison on July 17
For murder
JULY 15, 2021SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MAN EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD FOR RAPING THREE-YEAR-OLD STEPDAUGHTER
A man sentenced to death for raping his three-year-old stepdaughter was executed by firing squad on 15 July 2021 in southern Somalia’s Jubaland state.
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Gheidar executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 14
161st execution in Iran since the beginning of the year
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farzan Masoumzadeh and Omid Yari executed in Rasht Prison on July 14
For murders
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Abdolrahim executed in Rajai Shahr Prison July 14
For murder
JULY 13, 2021NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 24-YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEALING PHONES, CASH IN EKITI
An Ekiti State High Court on 29 June 2021 sentenced a 24-year-old man, Sola Jegede, to death by hanging for robbing three men of their phones and money.
JULY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Raouf Rezaeifar, Mohammad Farokhi and Hashem Bavarmand executed in Isfahan on July 13
At least 48 executed on drug-related charges in Iran in 2021
- JULY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Mohammadi was executed in Jiroft Prison on July 13
- JULY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Execution of three prisoners in Isfahan Prison on July 13
Other sources gave, for the same day and place, completely different names
JULY 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Najafi and Ali Ahmadi executed in Maragheh Prison on July 5
JULY 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassan Taheri Haghighi executed in Adelabad Prison on July 11
For murder
JULY 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Nemati and Mohammad Hassan Taheri executed in Shiraz prison on 11 July
For murder
- JULY 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Ali Sharifi executed in Jiroft prison on 11 July
For murder
JULY 10, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir and Akbar Jalilifar executed in Isfahan Prison on July 10
On drug charges
- JULY 10, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Ghanbari executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 10
160th execution in Iran since the beginning of the year
- JULY 10, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unknown prisoner executed on July 10 at Rajai Shahr Prison
For drug related crimes
- JULY 10, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Sarhadi executed in Isfahan -Prison om July 10
For drug related charges
JULY 8, 2021JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR BURNING WIFE TO DEATH
A man has been sentenced to death by hanging in Jordan for burning his wife to death, Gulf News reported on 2 July 2021.
JULY 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faizollah Ahmadzadeh executed in Qom on July 7
For drug-related charges
JULY 6, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT EXECUTES STUDENT WHO WAS 'TORTURED TO CONFESS' TO ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENIOR OFFICER
Egyptian authorities on 4 July 2021 carried out the death penalty against a university student after his conviction in the case of the assassination of a high-ranking police officer in Alexandria in 2018.
JULY 5, 2021SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES SIX ALLEGED SPIES
Al-Shabaab terrorist group on 27 June 2021 publicly executed six people accused of spying for the American intelligence agency, the CIA, in southern Somalia.
JULY 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Edris Gargij (Arbabzehi) executed in Zahedan Prison on July 5
For murder
JULY 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali P. executed in Mashhad Prison on July 5
crime unknown
JULY 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi G. executed in Mashhad Prison on July 5
For murder
- JULY 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men, not identified, executed on July 5 in Maragheh Prison
For sexual relation with married woman
JULY 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Anvar Abdollahi, Baha-oddin and Davood Ghasemzadeh executed in Urmia
On July 4, for murder
- JULY 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz prison on July 4th
One of them identified as "Jahani"
JULY 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khezr Ghavidel acquitted after execution
Relatives always insisted on the irregularities of the trial