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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JULY 29, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR OIL THEFT
Ding Hanqin and Luo Xingguo, two men who led an oil theft ring, were executed in Guangyuan City, southwestern China's Sichuan Province, for stealing oil from a pipeline in western China.
JULY 28, 2006VirginiaDEATH PENALTYUNITED STATES. VIRGINIA EXECUTES MICHAEL LENZ FOR SLAYING OF INMATE
Michael Lenz, a man who stabbed a fellow inmate to death during a pagan religious ceremony, was executed on July 27. Lenz, 42, had no final words before the lethal drugs were injected. He was pronounced dead at 9:07 pm at the Greensville Correctional Cent
- JULY 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. RECENT EXECUTIONS ‘BRUTAL’, HRCP
the director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said the number of recent executions carried out in Punjab province is "brutal". Rehman told the BBC News website that 37 people had been hanged in 2006 in Punjab alone compared with 52 people
- JULY 27, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. EXECUTION OF A TEENAGE GIRL, BBC DOCUMENTARY
it was reported that a television documentary team had pieced together details surrounding the case of a 16-year-old girl, executed two years previously in Iran.
JULY 27, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. WOMAN TO BE STONED TO DEATH BY END OF MONTH, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
a young woman is at imminent risk of execution by stoning for adultery, Amnesty International said.
JULY 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. MAN HANGED IN KOT LAKHPATT FOR MURDER
Abdul Rehman, a man convicted of murder, was hanged in Kot Lakhpatt jail, Pakistan, at 4:30 am.
- JULY 26, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. SADDAM OPTS FOR FIRING SQUAD
Saddam Hussein declared he would like to be executed by firing squad rather than hanged like "a common criminal" if sentenced to death at the end of his trial for genocide.
JULY 25, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA. THREE BALI TERRORISTS TO BE EXECUTED ON 22 AUGUST
the three Islamic militants condemned to death for the Bali bombings in 2002 will be executed on 22 August in Nusakambangan prison in Cilacap, central Java province.
JULY 25, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. FORMER CHINESE POLICEMAN LIFTS LID ON ORGAN HARVESTING
earlier in the month a Canadian human rights organisation revealed the extent of political prisoners being executed in China and then harvested for body parts.
JULY 24, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. TWO TEENAGERS HANGED IN PUBLIC
Two teenagers were hanged in public in the town of Aq Qala, northern Iran, the official news agency reported.
- JULY 22, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. BRITISH NATIONAL AGAIN ON DEATH ROW
Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man convicted of killing a taxi driver in Pakistan, has been put on death row for a third time and will be hanged on August 3...
JULY 21, 2006VirginiaDEATH PENALTYVIRGINIA. MAN EXECUTED BY ELECTRIC CHAIR
convicted murderer Brandon Wayne Hedrick was executed in the electric chair in Virginia on July 20 night becoming the first person in the United States to be put to death by electrocution in more than two years.
- JULY 20, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
Robert Anderson was executed. Anderson, 40...
Robert Anderson was executed. Anderson, 40...
- JULY 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN IN THEIR 20S HANGED IN PUBLIC
Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the western city of Boroujerd.
JULY 19, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTYTEXAS. SAN ANTONIO MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING STUDENT
a Texas gang member has been put to death by lethal injection for the 1996 murder of a San Antonio man - a crime for which he recanted his earlier confession.
JULY 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
three men, who were convicted of raping a woman in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, were hanged in central city of Lahore, a jail official said.
JULY 14, 2006South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYSOUTH CAROLINA, USA. MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPE, MURDER OF BOY
making no final statement and keeping his eyes trained on the ceiling, William "Junior" Downs was put to death by lethal injection for the 1999 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 6-year-old South Carolina boy.
- JULY 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER IN 15TH PUNJAB EXECUTION IN TWO WEEKS
Tauseef Munna was hanged till death in the 15th execution in Pakistan's Punjab province in the last two weeks. He had been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2002 for killing a four-year old boy. Prosecution lawyers said that the boy was kid
- JULY 13, 2006MissouriDEATH PENALTY
MISSOURI, USA. ANESTHESIOLOGISTS UNWILLING TO ASSIST IN EXECUTIONS
The state will comply with a federal judge's order to revamp its execution procedures by Saturday's deadline but may not be able to conduct any, the head of Missouri's Department of Corrections said today.
- JULY 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, Majid Rigi, for drug-related crime.
Iran hanged a man, Majid Rigi, for drug-related crime.
- JULY 12, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FOUR MEN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
four men convicted of serious drug trafficking were hanged in the southeasten town of Zabol. The town is near Iran’s border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, and sits on a major narcotics trafficking route.
- JULY 12, 2006OhioDEATH PENALTY
Rocky Barton died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville.
Rocky Barton died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville.
JULY 12, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
five people convicted of gang- raping a woman were hanged in the early morning at the district jail in Sialkot, about 125 km north of Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan, jail Superintendent Abdul Razaq Niazi said.
- JULY 11, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. PRESS ASIA TO END DEATH PENALTY, LABOUR PARTY
Australia's Labor party demanded Australia press regional nations to abolish the death penalty, as three Bali bombers and two Australian drug smugglers sat on death row in Asia.
- JULY 11, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR ABDUCTION, RAPE
a man found guilty of snatching and raping scores of young girls with the help of his wife was hanged in public in the central Iranian city of Isfahan.
- JULY 11, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
Derrick Sean O'Brien was executed in the Texas death chamber this evening for the torture...
Derrick Sean O'Brien was executed in the Texas death chamber this evening for the torture, rape and strangling of 2 teenage girls 13 years ago. O'Brien was 1 of 6 members of a fledgling street gang arrested in the slayings of Elizabeth Pena, 16, and Jenni
JULY 11, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder has been hanged in the western city of Boroujerd in Lorestan province, the official news agency IRNA reported.
- JULY 10, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. BALI BOMBERS' EXECUTION SET
three men on death row for the Bali bombings will be executed by firing squad at the end of the month, according to the Denpasar prosecutors office.
- JULY 8, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR RAPE
an Iranian man convicted on two counts of raping minors has been hanged in the northern city of Shahrud.
JULY 7, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. GUARD EXECUTED FOR INMATE'S DEATH
it was reported that a prison warden in northeast China was executed for beating and ordering other guards to torture an inmate to death.