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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- JUNE 1, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On June 1, a Saudi was executed for killing a compatriot...
On June 1, a Saudi was executed for killing a compatriot in a dispute
- JUNE 1, 1999United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
On June 1, a 33-year-old Pakistani man was executed...
On June 1, a 33-year-old Pakistani man was executed for murdering a 15-year-old Pakistani girl, whose family had refused him her hand in marriage
- MAY 31, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 31, a Saudi man was executed in the Qassim region...
On May 31, a Saudi man was executed in the Qassim region for murdering his wife
- MAY 29, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On May 29, Sergio A
On May 29, Sergio A
- MAY 28, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 28, an Indian was beheaded in Rjad, Saudi Arabia,...
On May 28, an Indian was beheaded in Rjad, Saudi Arabia, for smuggling cocaine and heroin
- MAY 26, 1999KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
Double murderer Eddie Harper, who after 16 years on...
Double murderer Eddie Harper, who after 16 years on death row said he preferred death over life, was executed by injection on May 26
- MAY 25, 1999BurundiDEATH PENALTY
On May 25, 11 people were summarily executed in Ruziba,...
On May 25, 11 people were summarily executed in Ruziba, in the province of Bujumbura
- MAY 18, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, according to Iranian human rights organizations,...
On May 18, according to Iranian human rights organizations, 3 men identified as Namdar, Faraj and Mojtaba were hanged in Qsar prison in Tehran
- MAY 13, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being...
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being found guilty of several murders and given death sentences by the military tribunal
- MAY 8, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd...
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd al Fattah Mohammad al Kumi were executed in the prison of Tanta in Basse Egypt
- MAY 7, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission...
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation" in Havana disclosed that the Cuban Government had executed 10 criminals by firing squad in the previous 3 months and has sentenced 5 more to death
- MAY 6, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 6, 20 soldiers were executed in Lubumbashi for...
On May 6, 20 soldiers were executed in Lubumbashi for military offenses
- MAY 1, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
In May, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council...
In May, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council refused to grant petitioners, Nankissoon Boodram, also called Dole Chadee, and 8 others, special leave to appeal the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago on May 16, 1999, upholding the
- APRIL 28, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On April 28, 28 people were executed in Luzira prison,...
On April 28, 28 people were executed in Luzira prison, in Kampala
- APRIL 23, 1999DelawareDEATH PENALTY
On April 23 in Smyrna, Delaware executed David J
On April 23 in Smyrna, Delaware executed David J
- APRIL 14, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, 58 political detainees were executed in...
On April 14, 58 political detainees were executed in the notorious Abu Ghurayb prison, said the Iraqi Communist Party's Human Rights Center in another statement faxed to Reuters in Cairo on 20 July
- APRIL 14, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in...
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in public in northern Iran, in Babol, a town bordering the Caspian Sea
- APRIL 13, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On April 13, 11 people were publicly executed in Mbuji-Mayi,...
On April 13, 11 people were publicly executed in Mbuji-Mayi, the diamond-rich capital of the Oriental Kasai Province
- APRIL 11, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 11, Hassan Manahi al-Qahtani was executed...
On April 11, Hassan Manahi al-Qahtani was executed in Riyadh, after being found guilty of shooting a fellow tribeswoman Najaa Aloush al-Qahtani
- APRIL 10, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 10, Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for...
On April 10, Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for shooting and killing a Saudi woman, in the capital Riyadh
- APRIL 6, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On April 6, the Iraqi Public Security Directorate announced...
On April 6, the Iraqi Public Security Directorate announced that 4 men were executed for the killing of Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, a prominent Shiite Muslim spiritual leader and his sons Mustafa and Mua'mal in the holy city of Najaf last February
- APRIL 3, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, a court ordered the hanging of Talaat Abdel-Mawgoud,...
On April 3, a court ordered the hanging of Talaat Abdel-Mawgoud, 27, a man who confessed to abducting in January a 3-year-old girl, and repeatedly raped her during more than two months of captivity
- APRIL 3, 1999TexasDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, Bishop John McCarthy of Austin joined...
On April 3, Bishop John McCarthy of Austin joined 55 American Catholic bishops that issued a Good Friday call for the nation's more than 60 million Catholics to oppose the death penalty in the United States
- MARCH 21, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On March 21, about 180 Iraqis were executed in Basra's...
On March 21, about 180 Iraqis were executed in Basra's al-Sabkhah suburb, and 56 others were executed in the province's security prison on March 23, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, an Iran-based leading dissident group, reported on April 1
- MARCH 19, 1999MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Singapore hanged two Malaysians and a...
On March 19, Singapore hanged two Malaysians and a Singaporean for drug trafficking
- MARCH 19, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and...
On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and a Singaporean, for possession of a small amount of the drug diamorphine and a about 2kg of cannabis
- MARCH 13, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On March 13, the Iraqi Public Security Directorate...
On March 13, the Iraqi Public Security Directorate announced that Muhammad Khudayyir Abbas, Abbas Khudayyir Abbas, Jasim Khudayyir Abbas, Haqqi Isma'il Abd Radi, Basim Abbas Abd Abbas, Abd Ali Mahdi Hassun, Abd al-Razzaq Hasan Mani and Faysal Ni'mah Husay
- MARCH 1, 1999MaltaDEATH PENALTY
In March, the extradition of Mohammed Abdel Monem Abbas,...
In March, the extradition of Mohammed Abdel Monem Abbas, 26, who was arrested in Malta in 1998 following an Interpol request, was requested by Turkey, so that he could face charges of murdering Briton Edgar Fernandes, 37, a London librarian who had been o
- MARCH 1, 1999TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
In March, the extradition of Mohammed Abdel Monem Abbas,...
In March, the extradition of Mohammed Abdel Monem Abbas, 26, who was arrested in Malta in 1998 following an Interpol request, was requested by Turkey, so that he could face charges of murdering Briton Edgar Fernandes, 37, a London librarian who had been o
- MARCH 1, 1999GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
In March, a delegation of members of the Italian Senate...
In March, a delegation of members of the Italian Senate and of Hands off Cain went to Guatemala to have the Government confirm that it would abstain on the resolution for a moratorium on executions to be voted on by the UN Commission on Human Rights