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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- AUGUST 14, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES TWO MEN IN LOWER JUBA
AUGUST 14, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: TWO PEOPLE BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MURDER
AUGUST 14, 2014IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO SISTERS MAY BECOME FIRST EVER WOMEN TO BE HANGED IN THE COUNTRY
the Mumbai Mirror said two sisters from Kolhapur in Maharashtra State, who were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, are likely to become the first ever women in India to be hanged after President Pranab Mukherje
AUGUST 13, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FOUR PRISONERS HANGED IN TWO DIFFERENT IRANIAN PRISONS
AUGUST 12, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: A 22-YEAR OLD MAN HANGED IN BIRJAND
AUGUST 12, 2014SyriaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SYRIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER BEHEADED IN AL-JAWF REGION
AUGUST 12, 2014United KingdomDEATH PENALTYUNITED KINGDOM: 45% OF BRITS WANT TO BRING BACK DEATH PENALTY – 50 YRS AFTER LAST EXECUTION
in a poll conducted to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the United Kingdom’s last legal executions, 45 percent of Brits said murderers should face the death penalty.
AUGUST 11, 2014SyriaDEATH PENALTYSYRIA: 25 PEOPLE EXTRA-JUDICIALLY EXECUTED BY ISIL
- AUGUST 11, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: A NATIONAL BEHEADED FOR KILLING HIS WIFE
- AUGUST 9, 2014IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED IN KARAJ
- AUGUST 8, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: THREE MEN BEHEADED FOR MURDER AND DRUG TRAFFICKING
AUGUST 7, 2014South KoreaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: ANOTHER SOUTH KOREAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
AUGUST 7, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: AT LEAST NINE PRISONERS EXECUTED IN RASHT AND ZAHEDAN, INCLUDING A JUVENILE OFFENDER HANGED ALONG WITH HIS MOTHER
AUGUST 6, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: SIX PRISONERS EXECUTED IN SHIRAZ AND KARAJ
Six prisoners were hanged in the cities of Shiraz and Karaj, Iran.
AUGUST 6, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 2 KOREAN SMUGGLERS EXECUTED
China executed two South Korean men in Jilin Province for drug trafficking and trading convictions, the first
- AUGUST 6, 2014MissouriDEATH PENALTY
USA - Missouri. Michael Worthington, 43, White, was executed
USA - Missouri. Michael Worthington, 43, White, was executed
AUGUST 6, 2014DEATH PENALTYMISSOURI EXECUTES KILLER MICHAEL WORTHINGTON BY LETHAL INJECTION
A Missouri man was put to death for raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S.
AUGUST 5, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAGICIAN, MURDERER EXECUTED
Two Saudis were beheaded in the border town of Gurayyat in the Al-Jouf province, an Interior Ministry
AUGUST 4, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: NEPALI MAID BEHEADED FOR TODDLER MURDER
Saudi authorities beheaded a Nepali housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his
AUGUST 3, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN SHIRAZ
Three prisoners were hanged in public in the city of Shiraz (Southern Iran), reported the Iranian state media.
AUGUST 3, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: THREE MEN CONVICTED OF AL-SHABAB TERROR ATROCITIES ARE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
Three men involved in a deadly terrorist attack on the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu have been executed
JULY 31, 2014GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: FISHERMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
In Ghana, a Cape Coast High Court has sentenced a fisherman to death by hanging for setting ablaze five
JULY 30, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SHI'ITE MILITIA HANGS UP 15 EXECUTED SUNNIS IN SQUARE
Iraqi Shi'ite militia forces executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hung them from electricity poles in a public
JULY 25, 2014TogoDEATH PENALTYGHANA: TOGOLESE FARMER SENTENCED TO DEATH
In Ghana, a Kumasi high court, presided over by Justice Paul K. Richardson, has ordered a Togolese to die
JULY 25, 2014JapanDEATH PENALTYCHINA: JAPANESE MAN EXECUTED OVER STIMULANT DRUG SMUGGLING
Chinese authorities executed a Japanese man in his 50s who had been sentenced to death in connection with
JULY 24, 2014GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: MASON SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING FRIEND
A 34-year-old mason from Bomfa in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality, Ghana, has been sentenced to death by
JULY 24, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: COURT CARRIES OUT DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FOUR SHABAB FIGHTERS
Somalia’s military court carried out the death penalty against four Shabab fighters founded guilty of ant-
JULY 24, 2014IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ACID ATTACK IN MADHYA PRADESH
In a landmark decision, a court in Madhya Pradesh sentenced a man to death for hurling acid on a 28-year-
JULY 23, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN DINSOR
Al-Shabaab militants in Dinsor, in Somalia's Bay region, publically executed a 14-year-old girl accused of
JULY 23, 2014DEATH PENALTYARIZONA (USA): JOSEPH WOOD DIES ALMOST TWO HOURS AFTER EXECUTION BEGINS
Joseph Wood gasped and snorted in an execution that lasted nearly 2 hours today.