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, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling an unspecified amount of hashish into the kingdom
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Nasser Saleh Hamid executed in Hajjah province for...
Nasser Saleh Hamid executed in Hajjah province for murdering Khaled Hussein Ali
- AUGUST 31, 2001North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Ronald Wayne Frye (see 8/22/01) was put to death by...
Ronald Wayne Frye (see 8/22/01) was put to death by injection at the Central Prison after the governor denied his request for clemency
- AUGUST 28, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Wali Ali Saleh executed in Sana'a for murder...
Abdul Wali Ali Saleh executed in Sana'a for murder of Nasser Ahmed al-Shagdari
- AUGUST 27, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abeed Muhammad Abeed executed in southern Yemen for...
Abeed Muhammad Abeed executed in southern Yemen for murder of Muhammad Ali Muhammad
- AUGUST 26, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdu Ali Muhammad executed in Ibb province for murder...
Abdu Ali Muhammad executed in Ibb province for murder of Muhammad Mohsen Hassan
- AUGUST 24, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Ampai Saiphoo, 26, was executed by a pistol shot
Ampai Saiphoo, 26, was executed by a pistol shot
- AUGUST 22, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Saleh Diefallah executed in al-Baydah province...
Ahmed Saleh Diefallah executed in al-Baydah province for murder of Ahmed Muhammad Saleh; Fadel Ali Hussein executed in Dali' province for murder of Ahmed Ahmed Khadir
- AUGUST 21, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Ali Mutiesh executed in Lahij for killing...
Muhammad Ali Mutiesh executed in Lahij for killing Abdullah Saleh Hussein and Saleh Hussein Hajeb
- AUGUST 19, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Adel Yehya Saleh al-Matari executed in Amran province...
Adel Yehya Saleh al-Matari executed in Amran province for murder of Qanaf Hussein Zayed
- AUGUST 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Three armed robbers, sentenced to death by a revolutionary...
Three armed robbers, sentenced to death by a revolutionary court, were hanged in public at dawn
- AUGUST 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A man named Vali Hezar-Asb, from the Khavaran District...
A man named Vali Hezar-Asb, from the Khavaran District of Tehran, was publicly hanged in a football field opposite the Khavaran cultural centre
- AUGUST 15, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Napoleon Beazley was granted a stay of execution by...
Napoleon Beazley was granted a stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals just four hours before his scheduled execution
- AUGUST 15, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
In Sana'a, Abdullah al-Sifyani was executed for the...
In Sana'a, Abdullah al-Sifyani was executed for the murder of Mohammed al-Abhar, and Nasser Saleh al-Matari was executed for the murder of Nabil Naji al-Matari
- AUGUST 10, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors,...
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors, were executed for kidnapping and murdering a Taiwanese man in 1991
- AUGUST 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors,...
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors, were executed for kidnapping and murdering a Taiwanese man in 1991
- AUGUST 7, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Taleban sentenced to death four men...
The head of the Taleban sentenced to death four men for masterminding a number of bomb blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul in November 2000, Afghan Taleban radio said
- AUGUST 7, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a...
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a jury in Port of Spain found them guilty of killing a man they had kidnapped and held for ransom
- AUGUST 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set...
Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set off a blast which killed 47 people in a northwestern Chinese village of cave dwellings in July, police said
- AUGUST 6, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Rashid Ahmed Saleh executed for killing Hassan Ali...
Rashid Ahmed Saleh executed for killing Hassan Ali Abdullah and Salem Hassan Said
- AUGUST 5, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's military regime is due to execute a young,...
Pakistan's military regime is due to execute a young, illiterate female convict this week in the face of protests from human rights groups about the fairness of her trial
- AUGUST 5, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Ali bin Ali Hassan, a Yemeni, executed in Sana'a for...
Ali bin Ali Hassan, a Yemeni, executed in Sana'a for killing Ali Ahmed Saleh
- AUGUST 4, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer was hanged in the central city...
A convicted murderer was hanged in the central city of Isfahan, the sixth execution made public in less than a week, the conservative Qods daily reported
- AUGUST 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese journalist was sacked after investigating...
A Chinese journalist was sacked after investigating a scandal involving the unauthorised removal of organs from an executed prisoner
- AUGUST 2, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A gang of five Iranians, sentenced to death for kidnapping...
A gang of five Iranians, sentenced to death for kidnapping and rape, were hanged in Gorgan, in the Golestan province in northern Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported
- AUGUST 2, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague sentenced General Radislav Krstic to 46 years in prison for participating in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave
- AUGUST 2, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague found General Radislav Krstic guilty of participating in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave, a haven that was under United Nations control until it came unde
- AUGUST 1, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Apollo Makubuya, a human rights researcher, told the...
Apollo Makubuya, a human rights researcher, told the Constitutional Review Commission that 55 prisoners were hanged in the last 10 years for murder, rape or aggravated robbery
- AUGUST 1, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
There are over 200 prisoners on death row in Uganda
There are over 200 prisoners on death row in Uganda
- AUGUST 1, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
A case of a man executed although suffering from a...
A case of a man executed although suffering from a mental illness