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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- OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Valiollah Samiei + 1 executed in Aligudarz on October 26
- OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Samad Agha Hosseini executed in Kashan on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Saedpanah executed in Esfarayen on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Moradi executed in Arak on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Omar Zardkouhi executed in Zahedan on October 26
1390 executions since the beginning of 2025
- OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Manouchehr Mehki executed in Aligudarz on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 26
… Dehghani + 2
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Mohammadi and Mohammadreza Nazari executed in Shiraz on October 26
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Narges Ahmadi executed in Qom on October 25
44th woman executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025
OCTOBER 25, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: OVER 800 PERSONS ON DEATH ROW
A total of 826 individuals are on death row at present (October 2025), Commissioner of Prisons and Media Spokesman Jagath Weerasinghe stated.
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahman Hosseinian and Mohammad Osmani executed in Dezful on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarhossein Bahri executed in Khorramabad on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Davarpanah executed in Hamedan on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Nazari and Meysam Bagheri executed in Rasht on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Sabzi executed in Shahroud on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 6 men executed in Rasht on October 25
Mahbubeh Jalali, Kourosh Nasrollahzadeh, Farhad Hatami, Amir Nazari, Meysam Bagheri, Siamak Khadem, and Hamed Hanifeh
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siamak Khadem and Hamed Hanifeh executed in Rasht on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mobin Hayati executed in Doroud on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamal Zare executed in Bam on October 25
OCTOBER 24, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Serious anomalies in the execution of Byron Black
OCTOBER 23, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Anthony Boyd, 54, Black, was executed on October 23
By nitrogen suffocation
- OCTOBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - M.A. executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 23
OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Haqshenas and Bashir … executed in Isfahan on October 22
- OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Safar Ali Rezaei executed in Semnan on October 22
OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 3 men executed in Isfahan
Saeedeh Khodadadi, Habib Haghshenas, Saman Talebi, Abdolreza Gholami
- OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 22
Sobhan Zamani, Shahab + 1
- OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Safarali Rezaei executed in Semnan on October 22
OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Marouf Fattahi executed in Tabriz on October 22
OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 22
Mansour Iravani, Sobhan Zamani, Reza Mahdizadeh, and Shahab ...
OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Rostami and Sasan Lorestani executed in Kermanshah on October 22