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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AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 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, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Curtis Windom, 59, Black, was executed
30th execution this year in the US, Florida’s 11th
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
AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in Karaj on August 27
Faramarz Shahbazi, Mashallah Nikoufal, Ahmadali Mehripour, Kazem Fatemi, Fereydoun Mohammadi, Hossein Biabani, Hesam Mohammadi, Ahmad Yousefi
AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ali Lashari executed in Isfahan on August 27
AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Samad Seyedhosseini executed in Yasuj on August 27
- AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Abedi executed in Semnan on August 27
- AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Samad Seyed Hosseini executed in Yasuj on August 27
AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Safarian Executed in Shiraz on August 27
930 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025
AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mitra Yasamani executed in Shiraz on August 27
31st woman executed in Iran 2025
- AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Qolizadeh executed in Sanandaj on August 27
- AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Milad Mohammadsalihi executed in Shiraz on August 27
- AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Moridan executed in Aligurdaz on August 27
- AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arman Aghcheli executed in Gorgan on August 27
AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ali Lashari and Hessam Dadkhah executed in Isfahan on August 27
- AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 83rd Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Navabi and Asef Rakhshani executed in Birjand on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nawab Popalzai executed in Bandar Abbas on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maliheh Haghi executed in Tabriz on August 26
30th woman executed in Iran in 2025
- AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Khani executed in Navahand on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump Calls for Death Penalty in All D.C. Murder Cases
Washington D.C. abolished death penalty in 1981
- AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Dehani executed in Zahedan on August 26
- AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alimorad Naseri executed in Semnan on August 26
- AUGUST 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asad Shabani executed in Nishapur on August 25
914 executions since the beginning of 2025