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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MAY 4, 2021ArkansasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arkansas. DNA tests cast doubt on the guilt of Ledell Lee
Executed 4 years ago.
APRIL 28, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 17 PRISONERS EXECUTED FOR 2013 ATTACK ON POLICE
Egyptian authorities on 26 April 2021 hanged 17 people who were convicted of murder for an attack on a police station in 2013, lawyers representing their families have said.
APRIL 27, 2021EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 9 MEN EXECUTED FOR 2013 ATTACK ON POLICE
Egyptian authorities on 26 April 2021 executed nine men, including an 82-year-old man, convicted of murder in an attack on a police station in 2013, security officials and a rights lawyer said. The assault resulted in the deaths of 15 people, including 11
APRIL 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habibullah Sheikh-Hossein executed on April 26
In Sabzevar Prison, on drug charges
APRIL 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Birjand Prison on April 24
Baluch men sentenced on drug-related charges
APRIL 21, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. TDCJ Revises Execution Protocol
To Permit Spiritual Advisers in Death Chamber
APRIL 14, 2021TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death sentence of Raymond Riles vacated
State’s longest-serving death row inmate
APRIL 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Moradi executed on April 13 in Birjand Prison
For drugs
APRIL 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sohrab Masgari executed on April 13
In Gonbad Kavous Prison, for murder
APRIL 12, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 3 SOLDIERS EXECUTED FOR 'HIGH TREASON’
Saudi Arabia executed three soldiers on 10 April 2021 it accused of committing “high treason,” without elaborating on which enemy the kingdom believed the men aided.
APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Zare executed at Shiraz Prison on April 12
For murder
APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Mahdavian executed at Karaj Prison on April 12, 2021
For murder
APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed on April 12
One of them was Ghorban Karimi
- APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed at Karaj Central Prison on April 12
Merhdad Jalali, Mohsen Madavian and Ramezan Ali Shahroodi
APRIL 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ramezani executed on April 12
In Qazvin Prison, for murder
APRIL 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Kabiri executed in Isfahan Prison on April 11
Convicted of drug charges
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 10, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bayazid Rashidi executed in Orumiyeh Prison on April 10
For drug related charges
APRIL 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYUSA - Republican-led states secretly spending huge sums on execution drugs
In Arizona, Tennessee and Missouri
APRIL 8, 2021OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Jonathan Mann, Son Of Victim, Opposes Death Penalty
Urges Legislature To End It Quickly
APRIL 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A.A and K.H. executed in Babol Prison on April 8
For murder
APRIL 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Safar Rahimi executed in Taybad Prison on April 8
For drug-related charges
APRIL 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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