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 9, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN HANG MAN IN PUBLIC IN HERAT AFTER EXECUTION-STYLE SHOOTING
Sources have confirmed that Taliban members in western Afghanistan shot a man dead and hanged his body in public on August 22, 2025.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Mohammadpanah and Hamid Farjam executed in Qom on September 9
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Abdoli executed in Dezful on September 9
SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Razavi executed in Kerman on September 9
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: WOMAN EXECUTED IN MECCA FOR KILLING HUSBAND WITH ACID
Saudi authorities said on September 7, 2025 they had carried out the execution of a Saudi woman in the western region of Mecca after she was convicted of murdering her husband by pouring acid on him as he slept.
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadali Gholizadeh executed in Malayer on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shamlu executed in Hamedan on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Lordegan on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammad-Panah executed in Qom on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Rahmani and Kamyar Najafzadeh executed in Kermanshah on September 8
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Tabriz on September 7
Keyvan Mamadi, Najib Azarm, Babak Omarzadeh, Houshang Hanareh, and Tawfiq Ne’mati
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Mirbaluchzehi executed in Manujan on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Rafiei and Abdolreza Karimi executed in Arak on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoud Ghanbarzehi executed in Zahedan on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dariush Bahrami executed in Karaj on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Taleb Tavakoli executed in Dezful on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadegh Bahmani and Mojtaba Salemi executed in Tabriz on September 7
7 executions in Tabriz that day
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahriar Dehvari executed in Babolsar on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Further information on the execution of Najib Azarm in Tabriz on 7 September
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 6
Taher Rasoulpour, Mohammad Bikar, Moslem Salehkhani
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Bahramian executed in Isfahan on September 6
A “Woman, Life, Freedom” proteste
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Mohibi executed in Qazvin on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yasin Afshari executed in Qom on September 6
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Azad Moradi executed in Sanandaj on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on September 4
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Safari executed in Yazd on September 4
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Yazd on September 4
Mohammad Salehi, Ebrahim Safari, Mohsen Amiri
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Asgari and … Darvishpour executed in Tabriz on September 3
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahman Ali Akbari executed in Kermanshah on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seyed Kazem Mousavi executed in Rasht on September 3