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 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 25, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, White, was executed on September 25
Using nitrogen gas
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 PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYIRAN - 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, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Mahdipur executed in Ilam on September 23, 2025
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: 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 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Fathi executed in Sari on September 22
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolaziz Ghaljayi executed in Zahedan on September 21
1102 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Alizadeh and Vahid Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on September 21
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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER
A General Court Martial of the Nigerian Army sitting at Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Jos, Plateau State, has sentenced one Private Lukman Musa to death by hanging.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Mahdavi and … Ahmadi executed in Taybad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Payman Jamshidi executed in Khorramabad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Borazjan on September 21
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali-Mansour Vafaee executed in Tabriz on September 20
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Malayer on September 20