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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APRIL 10, 2021North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: AUTHORITIES EXECUTE CHAIRMAN OF ‘DISTANCE EDUCATION ACT’ COMMISSION
Daily NK learned on 9 April 2021 that following an Organization and Guidance Department (OGD) investigation into the Ministry of Higher Education’s “non-standing commission for the implementation of the Distance Education Act,” North Korean authorities la
- APRIL 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Urmia prison on April 9
They were identified as Mahmoud Bayazid, Ali Mohammadzadeh, Arshad Heydari, and Hamid Najmi.
- APRIL 9, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Republican-led states secretly spending huge sums on execution drugs
In Arizona, Tennessee and Missouri
- APRIL 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Safar Rahimi executed in Taybad Prison on April 8
For drug-related charges
- APRIL 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A.A and K.H. executed in Babol Prison on April 8
For murder
APRIL 8, 2021OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Jonathan Mann, Son Of Victim, Opposes Death Penalty
Urges Legislature To End It Quickly
- APRIL 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yasser Daryayi-Narouyi executed in Sabzevar Prison on April 7
For drug-related charges
- APRIL 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Hojat Ghaed executed in Zanjan Central Prison on April 5
For murder
APRIL 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 Kurdish prisoners executed on April 4 in Urmia Prison
Ahad Habibvand (Nematvand), Sadegh Mohi (Mohemi), and Mohammad Karim Mahmoudi
APRIL 1, 2021St. LuciaDEATH PENALTYSAINT LUCIA JUSTICE MINISTER: ‘WE SHOULD USE THE DEATH PENALTY’
Justice and National Security Minister, Senator Hermangild Francis has said that the death penalty should be used in Saint Lucia, considering it remains on the law books, the Loop reported on 31 March 2021.
MARCH 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Annual report on the death penalty by Iran Human Rights
At least 267 people were executed in 2020
MARCH 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN Human Rights experts demand immediate release of Ahmadreza Djalali
is reportedly in a critical condition and near death
MARCH 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Mashhad Prison on March 15
For gang-raping a woman
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Valizadeh executed at Urmia Prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nafiseh Pakmehr, a woman, executed in the Prison of Taybad on March 14
116th woman hanged since Hassan Rouhani became president
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Akchin executed in Ardabil Prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Ghorbani executed in Shiraz Central Prison on March 14
For murder
- MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arash Waresi executed at Zanjan prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 13, 2021North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: FOUR PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN PYONGYANG ON CHARGES OF DISTRIBUTING ‘ILLEGAL VIDEO MATERIALS’
Four North Koreans were publicly executed in Pyongyang recently on charges of distributing “illegal video materials,” Daily NK has learned.
MARCH 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Woman Hanged; Daughter Carried Out the Execution
Maryam Karimi executed in Rasht Prison on March 13
MARCH 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asef Taghinejad executed in Tabriz Prison on March 8
For murder
- MARCH 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed at Yasuj Prison on March 7
For murder
MARCH 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk man executed at Rajaee Shahr Prison on March 7
For murder
- MARCH 6, 2021ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands off Cain - Comparison between the United States and Italy
speaking at the conference "La Storia di Greg"
MARCH 6, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BIHAR COURT SENTENCES 9 TO DEATH IN HOOCH TRAGEDY CASE
Nine persons were sentenced to death and four women to life imprisonment in Bihar by Gopalganj Additional District Judge-2 Luv Kush Kumar on 5 March 2021 after they were convicted in the Khajurbanni locality hooch tragedy.
- MARCH 4, 2021IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ EXECUTES 3 'TERRORISM' CONVICTS
Iraq on 3 March 2021 hanged three men convicted on "terrorism" charges in a notorious southern prison, local officials said, despite repeated international condemnations of the country's execution record.
- MARCH 3, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Five prisoners, including three women, were hanged on 27 February 2021 in Egypt,
Five prisoners, including three women, were hanged on 27 February 2021 in Egypt,
- MARCH 3, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED HIS MUM FOR THE MONEY TO BUY AN APARTMENT
A man who electrocuted, then bludgeoned his mother to death to claim an insurance payout so he could buy a flat was executed on 24 February 2021 in China.
MARCH 3, 2021SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES 5 PEOPLE FOR SPYING
The Somali-based al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group al-Shabaab has executed five people in the southern town of Jilib in Somalia's Middle Juba region, Anadolu Agency reported on 2 March 2021.
MARCH 3, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Abdullahnejad executed on March 3 in Isfahan
for murder