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 3, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: 13-YEAR-OLD BOY CARRIES OUT PUBLIC EXECUTION OF MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
A public execution carried out by the Taliban in the eastern province of Khost on December 2, 2025 was conducted by a 13-year-old boy, local sources told Amu, adding that the man executed had been accused of killing 13 members of the child’s family.
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Siavash Khosravi executed in Kashan on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Namjoo executed in Bushehr on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Keyvan Shahbakhsh executed in Bam on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Manouchehr Ahmadi executed in Borazjan on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Chaboksavar executed in Shahr-e Kord on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Zahedi executed in Nishapur on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Mortezayi and Abufeiz Davodi executed in Semnan on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Javanmardi executed in Rasht on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Mahdavi executed in Mahshahr on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rana Faraj-Oghli, a woman, executed in Tabriz on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on December 3
Amir Emami + 2
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Zahedi executed in Shahr-e Kord on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karam Khoda Sepehri executed in Bojnourd on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Doctors Urge Governor to Pause Executions for Drug Review
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Chaboksavar executed in Neyshabur on December 3
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sultan Morad Nasiri executed in Esfarayen on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Mozaffarzadeh executed in Qom on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Semnan on December 2
Mahmoud Nouri, Hossein Shafizadeh and Gholamreza Bahrami
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fariborz Niazi executed in Malayer on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Aminpour executed in Ardabil on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Jafar Alinia executed in Behbahan on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshid Karami was executed in Damghan on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Malek Gerayi was executed in Ilam on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Kazazi was executed in Shiraz on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esfandiar Zakipour executed in Quchan on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Reza Shah-Mohammadi was executed in Zanjan on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Sheikhi executed in Ferdows on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on December 2
Bahram Ajdari, Hamed Kazazi, Ali Shokrzadeh and Parsa Saedi
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Zakiri executed in public in Borazjan on December 2