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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- MAY 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Falih Bin-Muslih Bin-Hujayj Al-Luhaybi was executed...
Falih Bin-Muslih Bin-Hujayj Al-Luhaybi was executed in Medina
- MAY 11, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The Anti-Taleban North Alliance accused the Taleban...
The Anti-Taleban North Alliance accused the Taleban Islamic Movement of executing 198 supporters of the Alliance who had been captured during the conflict
- MAY 9, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
More than 90 non-Pashtu Afghans were shot dead by the...
More than 90 non-Pashtu Afghans were shot dead by the Taleban in a village near Aibak, in the Taleban-controlled Samangan province
- MAY 9, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four persons were hung at the Gujrat District Jail
Four persons were hung at the Gujrat District Jail
- MAY 9, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Willam Kitchens, 37, white, was executed by lethal injection
Willam Kitchens, 37, white, was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 7, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abul Kashem was sentenced to death by hanging for human...
Abul Kashem was sentenced to death by hanging for human trafficking
- MAY 7, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Akram Bakhsh, a Pakistani man, was publicly...
Mohammed Akram Bakhsh, a Pakistani man, was publicly beheaded for killing a fellow national
- MAY 4, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Tommy Jackso, 43, black, was put to death by lethal...
Tommy Jackso, 43, black, was put to death by lethal injection
- MAY 3, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded...
Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded in Arar for murdering his wife
- MAY 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was...
Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was hung at Gujrat District Jail
- MAY 2, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Christina Riggs, 28, a former nurse sentenced to death...
Christina Riggs, 28, a former nurse sentenced to death for smothering her two young children was executed in Arkansas
- MAY 2, 2000ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal...
Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Amir Layla Huran al-Ruwayli was executed for drug smuggling
Amir Layla Huran al-Ruwayli was executed for drug smuggling
- APRIL 28, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Koliyil Kunhi Muhammad Abdul Razaq, an Indian, was...
Koliyil Kunhi Muhammad Abdul Razaq, an Indian, was executed in Shaqraa for murdering an elderly Saudi citizen, Abdul Aziz Al-Yousuf
- APRIL 27, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Ronald Keith Boyd, 43, black, was executed by lethal...
Ronald Keith Boyd, 43, black, was executed by lethal injection
- APRIL 26, 2000CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Canada condemned Vietnam for executing Nguyen Thi Hiep,...
Canada condemned Vietnam for executing Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Vietnamese-born Canadian citizen convicted of drug trafficking, on April 24
- APRIL 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ge Lanzhen and Xu Ruzhen, leaders of a criminal gang...
Ge Lanzhen and Xu Ruzhen, leaders of a criminal gang of 16 people, all of them farmers from Guangnan County, Yunnan Province, were executed in Wenshan after being sentenced to death in November 1999
- APRIL 24, 2000SudanDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese man was executed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,...
A Sudanese man was executed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after being convicted of murdering a fellow Sudanese national
- APRIL 24, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Canadian citizen of Vietnamese origin...
Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Canadian citizen of Vietnamese origin was executed in Hanoi, where she was arrested in 1996 for drug trafficking, a court spokesmen said
- APRIL 23, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
An Ethiopian man was executed in Saudi Arabia after...
An Ethiopian man was executed in Saudi Arabia after he was convicted of stabbing a Sudanese man to death while the victim was sleeping
- APRIL 23, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
Two men were executed after they were convicted of...
Two men were executed after they were convicted of premeditated murder
- APRIL 20, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
According to some reports, 13 people were executed...
According to some reports, 13 people were executed by shooting in Khazhi-aul by Russian forces
- APRIL 19, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Reza Zohrevand, 21, was publicly hanged in Khorramabad...
Reza Zohrevand, 21, was publicly hanged in Khorramabad for murder
- APRIL 19, 2000TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Robert Glen Coe, 44, was executed by injection in...
Robert Glen Coe, 44, was executed by injection in Tennessee for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Cary Ann Medlin 21 years ago
- APRIL 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed...
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed another man, a Saudi Interior Ministry statement said
- APRIL 12, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Yemeni man was executed in Saudi Arabia for raping...
A Yemeni man was executed in Saudi Arabia for raping several young girls and stealing their jewelery
- APRIL 12, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A murderer was executed in public by the Taliban authorities...
A murderer was executed in public by the Taliban authorities in Maimana city in Faryab province of Afghanistan
- APRIL 11, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted...
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted of murder, robbery and having illicit sex with an Indonesian maid
- APRIL 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
- APRIL 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in...
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in Beijing for bludgeoning his parents to death with an iron bar