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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NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Sohrabi executed in Hamedan on November 8
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Samir Bahari and Yaroli Hajizadeh executed in Kermanshah on November 8
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yazdan Chegini executed in Khorramabad on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Mirghafari and Omid Feyzi executed in Tabriz on November 8
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR report: 217 persons executed in Iran in October
282 according to Hands off Cain
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shams al-Din Abbasi Kay executed in Urmia on November 7
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hawre Jahanara executed in Urmia on November 7
NOVEMBER 6, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Arman executed in Yazd on November 5, 2025
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Zare’ and Faez Abousheh executed in Shiraz on November 5
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Karimi executed in Kermanshah on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Qobad Olfati executed in Ilam on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Mohammadi executed in Esfarayen on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Zare and Salim Samadi executed in Shiraz on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Astan executed in Kermanshah on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Nouri executed in Borazjan on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Baqer Abdi executed in Bandar Abbas on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dorud on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kiumars Gholami executed in Gorgan on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Yari executed in Esfarayen on November 5
NOVEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kobra Rezaei, a woman, executed in Yazd on November 4
NOVEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Goudarzi + 1 executed in Isfahan on November 4
- NOVEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Mashhad on November 4
Rasoul Kahzadi, Majid Sh. + 1
- NOVEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 woman, 6 men executed in Yazd on November 4
Kobra Rezayi, Rasoul Karimi, Farzad Hosseini + 4
- NOVEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Kashan on November 4
- NOVEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Kamangar executed in Qazvin on November 4
- NOVEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Erfan Qalavand executed in Nishabur on November 4
- NOVEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Minab on November 3
- NOVEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arman Solgi executed in Borujerd on November 3
- NOVEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arian Gerayi executed in Jiroft on November 3