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 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Sarlak executed in Dezful on August 12
AUGUST 11, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Business Leader Calls for End to “Broken” Death Penalty System
Matthew Stepka, on behalf of a coalition of over 500 business leaders
AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zaker Aramesh executed in Isfahan on August 11
- AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Sagvand executed in Khorramabad on August 11
860 executions in 2025
AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 2 men executed in Isfahan on August 11
Soudabeh Ghasemzadeh, Ali Mobasher, Hossein Rezaei
- AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Akbari executed in Navahand on August 11
AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Hosseinpour executed in Ilam on August 11
- AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Issa Mortazavi and Yaser Sogan executed in Khorramabad on 11 August
- AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seyed Ahmad Navabi executed in Jiroft on August 11
AUGUST 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hesam Salari executed in Saravan on August 10
- AUGUST 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kiomars Fatehi executed in Zanjan on August 10
- AUGUST 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadreza Torkashvand + Unk executed in Arak on August 10
- AUGUST 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadreza Tarkashun executed in Arak on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahman Ejbari (Shibak) executed in Birjand on August 10
- AUGUST 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Ijbaari executed in Birjand on August 10
AUGUST 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Elyasi and Soleiman Naseri Khez executed in Kermanshah on August 9
- AUGUST 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Tayeb Mahmoudi executed in Ahvaz on August 9
- AUGUST 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Habibi executed in Kermanshah on August 9
- AUGUST 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hashem Sorkh and Rahman Jahangiri executed in Yazd on August 8
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoners Rouzbeh Vadi and Mehdi Asgharzadeh executed in Ghezel Hesar on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Saeedi and Manouchehr Saeedi executed in Gorgan on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Tavakoli and Aryo Jalali executed in Karaj on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholam Saedian and Mostafa Mirahmadi executed in Yasuj on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan-Ali Zinizadeh executed in Tabriz on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Azizian executed in Mashhad on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Shahverdi executed in Borujerd on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Amoosi (Ejbaari) executed in Mashhad on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamran Amraei + Unk executed in Kerman on August 6
- AUGUST 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Yari executed in Malayer on August 5
AUGUST 5, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Byron Black, 69, Black, was executed on August 5