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 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoners Rouzbeh Vadi and Mehdi Asgharzadeh executed in Ghezel Hesar on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTYIRAN - Omid Azizian executed in Mashhad on August 6
- AUGUST 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahanshah Iravani executed in Semnan on August 5
AUGUST 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Mashhad on August 5
Reza Sarparast, Davood Najibollahi, Bahman Piroozehi, and Mohammad Golestani
- AUGUST 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Yari executed in Malayer on August 5
- 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
- AUGUST 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siamak Mohammadi-Pour executed in Khorramabad on August 4
- AUGUST 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamidreza Soroush executed in Nur on August 4
AUGUST 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on August 4
Hesam Moloudi, Matin Shahbazzadeh-Moghadam, Enayat Samsari
AUGUST 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davood Lajai executed in Mashhad on August 4
- AUGUST 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 men executed in Karaj on August 3
6 executions in Karaj Central on the same day were already reported
- AUGUST 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iqbal Abdali executed in Ilam on August 3
AUGUST 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saber Azizpour executed in Khorramabad on August 3
- AUGUST 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Arabi executed in Arak on August 3
AUGUST 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men 1 woman executed in Khorramabad on August 3
Hassan Ramazani, Mehdi Jouzian Gavbaze, Saber Azizpour + Unk woman
AUGUST 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on August 3
Fariborz Haqi (Haghi), Moslem Jalali, and Heydar Mohammad
- AUGUST 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Abakhti executed in Karaj on August 3
Seventh man executed in Karaj on 3 August identified as Mohammad Abakhti
AUGUST 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Zare executed in Gachsaran on August 2
- AUGUST 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fouad Azar executed in Yasuj on August 2
JULY 31, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Edward Zakrzewski, 60, White, was executed on July 31st.
JULY 31, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Stay of impending execution of David Roberts
JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nahid Jokar executed in Shiraz on July 31
- JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahtab Bayati and Ali Ashraf Khani executed in Mashhad on July 31
JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 31
788 executions since the beginning of 2025
- JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asadollah Sagvandi executed in Ahvaz on July 31