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 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Hamegan and Hossein Mokhtari executed in Rasht on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Karimi and Taleb Rikani executed in Isfahan on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on August 20
Hossein Karimi, Reza Abbasi, Taleb Reikani, Morteza Sayvand.
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mohammad Faroughi executed in Qorveh on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naghi Shahi executed in Tabriz on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mokhtar Fazeli executed in Ahvaz on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vali-Karam Jaberi executed in Qazvin on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naghi Shahi and Yashar Lejehi executed in Tabriz on August 20
AUGUST 19, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 17 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN THREE DAYS
Saudi authorities put two people to death on August 4, 2025 to reach 17 in three days, state media said, as the conservative kingdom accelerated towards a record number of executions this year.
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Molayi Hakani executed in public on August 19
IHR considers it particularly serious that children witness hangings.
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Hassan Kahrazehi, Abedin Kahrazehi, Milad Narouyi
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Zeinali executed in Arak on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hafiz Siahkhani executed in Iranshahr on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Kayle Bates, 67, Black, was executed
State’s 10th execution of 2025
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Safarali Keyfari, Milad Narouei + Unk.
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Arjangi executed in Ardabil on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Joghatay executed in Sabzevar on August 19
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davood Kashani executed in Hamedan on August 18
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Omidi-Moghadam and Iman Jouzi executed in Khorramabad on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Sedghi and Arash Mahjour executed in Isfahan on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Ghasemi executed in Amol on August 18
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Ahvaz on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Younesi and Mehdi Najafi executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Rahimzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Soheili and Nader Sepahdar executed in Mashhad on August 17
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Sadeghi executed in Rasht on August 16
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Fathi and Siamand Sa’adati executed in Sari on August 16
- AUGUST 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Esfandiari executed in Hamedan on August 13
AUGUST 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Bazmandegan and Mohammad Kashifi executed in Shiraz
On security-related charges