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 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valiollah Avazpour executed in Gachsaran on September 3
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Qom on September 3
Mehrdad Iravani, Rouhollah Hakemi, Nezam Hakemi, Allahbakhsh Mirjahani
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Karaj on September 3
Habib Atayi, Reza Aghajani, Sajad Sadeghi, Naser… + 2 Unk
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A.F. executed in unspecified prison on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bijan Hosseinpanah executed in Zanjan on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houman Geravand executed in Karaj on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Babaei executed in Sanandaj on 2 September
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Kermanshah on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahan Rashidi and Yaghoub Derikvand executed in Aligudarz on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 2 men executed in Zanjan on September 2
Gohar Taheri Aghdam, Bijan Hosseinpanah and Ahmad Alipour
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Kermanshah on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naser Mahi-Dashti executed in Kerman on September 2
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirza Gholikhani executed in Rasht on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Abbaspour executed in Sanandaj on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Yavari executed in Hamedan on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Delavari and Armin Reyhani executed in Shiraz on August 31
950 executions since the beginning of 2025
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soleiman Koushki executed in Karaj on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on August 31
160 executions in August
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Nouri executed in Arak on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Urmia on August 31
Javad Ali, Rahman Javan, and Morteza Zichi
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmaeil Delavar and Arman Reyhani executed in Shiraz on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Nowruzi executed in Arak on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Emad Ghaedi executed in Borazjan on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amar Hassani executed in Ahvaz on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rostam Shokrollahi executed in Taybad on August 31
169 executions in August
- AUGUST 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Kakavand and Ahmadali Mehripour executed in Karaj on August 30
AUGUST 29, 2025UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Ralph Menzies will not be executed on Sept. 5
AUGUST 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Banoo Moghadam executed in Abhar on August 28
32nd woman executed in 2025
- AUGUST 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Raoufi executed in Karaj on August 28