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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DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Raoufi executed in Kashan on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghaffari executed on December 7
The primary defendant in a major economic case
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshid Jafarzadeh and Mehdi Rajabali Zadeh executed in Rasht on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Ashraf Khodaei executed in Saveh on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Golmirza Nejati executed in Aligudarz on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Borzu Beigi executed in Saveh on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khosro Nemati executed in Qom on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Bahmani executed in Nishapur on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kermshah Zaki-Pour executed in Zanjan on December 7
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davoud Dolatshahi executed in Borujerd on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yahya Miri and Salar Rezaei executed in Kermanshah on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahram Torkashvand executed in Hamedan on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farid Zare’i executed in Karaj on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Barakhas Farzi and Khodadad Khosravi executed in Khorramabad on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Panahizadeh executed in Sanandaj on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mansour Akhlaqi executed in Dezful on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alimorad Ansari and Hossein Kochar’I executed in Qazvin on December 6
- DECEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on December 5
- DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hosseinali Yeganeh executed in Birjand on December 4
- DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahim Mansouri executed in Kashmar on December 4
- DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Artam Ghaffouri executed in Mahabad on December 4
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Jamshidi executed in Bandar Abbas on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Pirvali Shabani executed in Sabzevar on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hesam Norouzi executed in Mashhad on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Azad Changa executed in Naghadeh on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Mashhad on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Emami executed in Ghezel-Hesar on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Kalhour executed in Gorgan on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Safa Jowzipour executed in Gonabad on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Javanmardi executed in Rasht on December 3