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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- MARCH 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WOMAN EXECUTED FOR TRAFFICKING 31 BABY BOYS
a Chinese woman was executed for trafficking 31 children, the Supreme Court said, after another two men were sentenced to death earlier this week for kidnapping and selling baby boys.
- MARCH 24, 2006AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. CLERICS URGE EXECUTION OF CONVERT
senior Muslim clerics demanded that Abdul Rahman, an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity, be executed, warning that if the government caved in to Western pressure and freed him, they would incite people to "pull him into pieces."
- MARCH 23, 2006CanadaDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. KARZAI SAYS CONVERT WILL NOT BE EXECUTED – CANADA
Afghan President Hamid Karzai assured Canada that Abdur Rahman, a man facing possible execution for converting to Christianity, would not be put to death, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.
- MARCH 23, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. HALABJA PROTESTERS MAY FACE DEATH PENALTY
it was reported that demonstrators who torched a monument to the victims of a gas attack on Halabja faced the death penalty if convicted, according to a judge investigating the incident.
- MARCH 22, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS. INMATE EXECUTED FOR DEATH OF TODDLER
Robert Salazar Jr., a man convicted of beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter to death because she was crying, was executed by lethal injection.
- MARCH 22, 2006NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. MAN TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING OWN DAUGHTER
a Sapele High Court in Nigeria’s Delta State sentenced a 34-year-old brick-layer, Justice Igbame, to death by hanging for killing his three-year-old daughter with a kitchen knife.
- MARCH 21, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. JAPAN'S RICH BUY ORGANS FROM EXECUTED CHINESE PRISONERS
hundreds Hundreds of well-off Japanese and other nationals are turning to China's burgeoning human organ transplant industry, paying tens of thousands of pounds for livers and kidneys, which in some cases have been harvested from executed prisoners and so
- MARCH 21, 2006Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MURDER
Constable Dave Burnett, a Trinidad and Tobago police officer with 13 years experience, was sentenced to hang after being found guilty of the murder.
- MARCH 21, 2006VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. FORMER CUSTOMS OFFICER EXECUTED FOR CORRUPTION
Phung Long That, or Bay That, a former senior customs officer who had taken bribes and abetted one of the country’s largest smuggling scandals back in late 1997, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City.
- MARCH 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as H.Z. was hanged in public in the southern city of Jahrom...
a man, identified only as H.Z. was hanged in public in the southern city of Jahrom...
- MARCH 17, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. WOMEN ARRESTED IN PEACEFUL PROTEST COULD BE EXECUTED
the total number of arrests following a gathering of hundreds of women's rights defenders who had made their way from Tehran's Daneshjoo Park to Laleh Park to mark International Women's Day on March 8 remained uncertain, as was the fate of those arrested
- MARCH 17, 2006North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Patrick Moody, 39, was executed by injection at Central Prison for the Sept. 16...
Patrick Moody, 39, was executed by injection at Central Prison for the Sept. 16...
- MARCH 15, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. HUGHES PUT TO DEATH IN FIFTH 2006 TEXAS EXECUTION
Tommie Hughes was put to death by lethal injection for the 1997 robbery and murder of a Dallas woman in a movie theater parking lot. Hughes, 32, was condemned for killing Foulke Erinkitola, 25, after he and a cousin robbed Erinkitola and her friend, Roxan
- MARCH 15, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. POLITICAL PRISONER AT RISK OF EXECUTION
prison officials in Iran repeatedly threatened to execute Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi, a sympathizer of an armed opposition group, during the Persian New Year holidays that begin on March 21, Human Rights Watch said.
- MARCH 15, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. UZBEK RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PRAISE CONDITIONS IN KYRGYZ DEATH ROW CELL
the leaders of the Uzbek public association ‘Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture’, Tamara Chikunova and Dilobar Xudoberganova, shared their views with journalists at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, after visiting a death row cell at Bi
- MARCH 14, 2006ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN RESPONDS TO THE IRANIAN EMBASSY’S DENIAL OF THE EXECUTION OF MINORS IN IRAN
Hands Off Cain replies to a note sent it by the Iranian embassy in Rome in which it denyed the application of the death penalty to minors.
- MARCH 10, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM. HANGED PRISONER'S BODY IS EXHUMED
the body of George Kelly, a man who was hanged in 1950 for a murder he did not commit, was to be exhumed from its prison grave. Kelly was executed after he was found guilty of being involved in a notorious double murder at the Cameo Cinema in Wavertree, L
- MARCH 8, 2006BahamasDEATH PENALTY
THE BAHAMAS. MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY BANNED
the mandatory death penalty in the Bahamas was abolished by five British law lords when they held it to be a breach of international human rights.
- MARCH 7, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. YOUNG MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC
a young man was hanged in public in the western city of Qazvin.
- MARCH 7, 2006United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA. THREE MEN FACING FEDERAL EXECUTION RECEIVE STAYS
Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a stay of execution for three co-defendants on federal death row who were scheduled to be executed in May, the Tribune Star reported.
- MARCH 6, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in southwestern Khuzestan province.
- MARCH 5, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED PUBLICLY FOR MURDER
Ali Salahshoor, 33, was hanged publicly on Sunday morning for murdering two brothers in 2005 in Ziar, a village in the central Isfahan province.
- MARCH 4, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPE
Hossein S., 24, was hanged in Qazvin, northern Iran, for raping two women after breaking into a beauty parlour and threatening them with a knife.
- MARCH 3, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF FAMILY
two men convicted of hacking to death a family of three, including a 4-year-old boy, were sentenced to death and executed in China’s Yunnan Province.
- MARCH 1, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE ARAB ACTIVISTS EXECUTED
Iran executed three Arab activists in the south-western oil city of Ahwaz, according to local dissidents reached by telephone.
- MARCH 1, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN HANGED PUBLICLY
two men convicted of carrying out a deadly a bomb attack in Iran's restive oil city of Ahwaz were executed in public early morning.
- FEBRUARY 28, 2006BurundiDEATH PENALTY
BURUNDI. SECURITY PERSONNEL CARRYING OUT EXECUTIONS, TORTURE
rogue soldiers and police officers in Burundi had executed and tortured suspected rebels and civilians, Presidential aide Philippe Nzobonariba acknowledged.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. 8,000 EXECUTIONS EVERY YEAR, SCHOLAR AT THE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
the number of executions in China is a state secret, but Liu Renwen, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said he agreed with estimates in academic circles that the figure was likely to be about 8,000 a year.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN. MAN EXECUTED FOR US MISSIONARY KILLINGS
Abed Abdulrazzak Kamel, convicted of killing three US Christian missionaries in southern Yemen in 2002, was executed by firing squad. Kamel shot dead a surgeon and two of her colleagues at a Baptist mission hospital in the town of Jibla.
- FEBRUARY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR RAPE
an Iranian man convicted of rape was hanged in a prison in the northern city of Qazvin, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported.