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 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Taleb Hejrati-Pour executed in Sanandaj on October 6
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Lerni and Ahmad Arzani executed in Isfahan on October 6
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Saqaei executed in Sabzevar on October 6
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shah-Hossein Afshar executed in Nishabur on October 6
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Meysam Khodadadi executed in Gorgan on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 5
Jahanbakhsh Rakhshani, Mohammad Soltanpour, Farzad Rasoulzadeh
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mozaffar Doroudi executed in Semnan on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Barzegar executed in Qazvin on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nour Mohammad Naseri executed in Shiraz on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Erfan Afzali executed in Sari on October 5
OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Saleh Ghahremani and Fardin Firouzi executed in Qazvin on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sobhan Najafi executed in Malayer on October 5
OCTOBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 political prisoners executed in Ahvaz on October 4
Ali Mojaddam, Mohammadreza Moghaddam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Dris, Adnan Ghabishavi, and Salem Mousavi
OCTOBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Ghadimi executed in Isfahan on October 4
OCTOBER 3, 2025North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Gov. Josh Stein signed death penalty bill
- OCTOBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Barahouei executed in Zahedan on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Shehiki executed in Iranshahr on October 2
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on October 1
Ali Geravand, Javad Sargazi, Sajad Mahmoudi, Hamid-Reza Maleki
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Amiri and Mehrdad Shahidi executed in Kermanshah on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 187 executions in September (197 as for Hands off Cain)
Highest monthly toll in 20 years
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seydi Tabaei executed in Karaj on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Legislature Passes Sweeping Criminal Law Legislation in Effort to Restart Executions
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadegh Bazvand executed in Dezful on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kermanshah on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Mahmoud Salehi and Nader Mianji executed in Isfahan on October 1
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khosro Moradlou executed in Zanjan on October 1
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodayar Faraji executed in Birjand on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 1
Saeed Seyedi Tabayi, Mehdi Moradi and Sajad Mahmoudi
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Hamedan on October 1
Kamran Navabi, Soleiman Mohammadvand, and Khorram ...
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Faraji executed in Sanandaj on October 1