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 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran’s Expanding Prison Protest Movement against Executions
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Afagh executed in Mashhad on September 18
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. David Pittman, 63, White, executed on September 17
12th execution in Florida and 31st in the US this year
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men execute in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
Ali Esmaili, Majid Hosseini, Omid Hassanzadeh, Rahman Sarlak, Babak Shahbazi + Unk Afghan
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Zahra Fotouhi, and Morteza Shirkhani executed in Tabriz on September 17
1069 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Yeganeh executed in Semnan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Hashami executed in Miandoab
The Execution Leads to Revenge Killings
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Hosseini executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Sabzevar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Pirabbasi executed in Sabzevar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fazel Sohrabi executed in Neishabur on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisagh Rezayi and Hossein Yaganeh executed in Semnan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Reasons Behind Byron Black’s Painful Execution
Autopsy reveals “pulmonary congestion and edema”
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Farshad Bourkzehi executed in Gonabad on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Tajik executed in Shiraz on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Babak Shahbazi executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nadim Ashrafzadeh and Abdolqader Sargolzaei executed in Isfahan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mirabadi executed in Zanjan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafoor Behboudi and Abdolsalam Mir Panjshir executed in Taybad on September 17
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Yousefzehi executed in Gonabad on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolsamad Salarzehi and Abdolmajid Barahouyi executed in Birjand on September 16
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Okhatizadeh and Akbar Emami executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamreza Hariri and Nemat Khodabakhsh executed in Sari on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Noormohammad Chegali + Unk executed in Dastgerd on September 16
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hojjat Goodarzi executed in Aligudarz on September 16
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Bozhabadi and Farshad Khosravi executed in Sabzevar on September 15, 2025
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Rashedi executed in Ramhormoz on September 15
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Koshafar executed in Sanandaj on September 15
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Amoudi executed in Borazjan on September 15
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA EXECUTES PEOPLE FOR SHARING FOREIGN FILMS AND TV, UN REPORT SAYS
North Korea has executed people for distributing foreign media, including television shows like popular South Korean dramas