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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- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER, ARMED ROBBERY IN AKWA IBOM
Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo on September 26, 2025 sentenced a dismissed soldier with the Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion, Ibagwa in Abak, Corporal Stephen Iweh, to death by hanging for the murder of a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy.
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ghorbanifar executed in Bam on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Shahlaeinia executed in Kerman on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk executed in Babol on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Nouri executed in Arak on September 28
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on September 27
Younes Ahmadi, Mehdi Veisi and Ghodrat Nazari
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kadkhodaei executed in Isfahan on September 27
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Blaine Milam, 35, White, was executed on September 25
33rd execution of the year in the US
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, White, was executed on September 25
Using nitrogen gas
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE EXECUTES MALAYSIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER IN THE CITY-STATE’S 11TH EXECUTION OF THE YEAR
A Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on September 25, 2025 for drug trafficking, raising the number of executions in the city-state to 11 this year despite renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
Ahmad-Reza Geravand, Farshad Geravand, and Amir …
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 24
Mahnaz Dehqani, Kamran Amirzadegan, and Seyed Morad Hemmat
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Karami and Jaber Asgari executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on September 24
Ali Keshavarz, Sajad Aslani, Ahmad Bakhtiar, Keyvan Rahmati
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Saberi executed in Ilam on September 24, 2025
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Navahand on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Mehdipour executed in Ilam on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahan Houshmand executed in Ahvaz on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aria Soltani executed in Shiraz on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Mahdinejad executed in Ghezel-Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Keyvan Mohammadi executed in Zanjan on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Roya Abbas-zadeh executed in Zanjan on September 24
A 25-year-old Turkish woman
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: 5 PRISONERS HANGED AS 3 ESCAPE GALLOWS
The Ministry of Interior executed five individuals on January 19, 2025 morning, including three Kuwaiti men, a Kuwaiti woman and an Arab expatriate.
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Mahdipur executed in Ilam on September 23, 2025
SEPTEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Fathi executed in Sari on September 22
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mousavi executed in Gachsaran on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on September 21
Saeed Ghobadi, Kazem Jamashourani and Hadi Nowruzi
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Yari executed in Arak on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Emad Keshvari executed in Taybad on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kaviar Khediripour executed in Mahabad on September 21