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 10, 2025North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREAN ESCAPEES SPEAK AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, DRAWING ANGER FROM PYONGYANG
One North Korean woman described how her father died of starvation. Another said her friends were publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean television dramas. North Korea’s ambassador appeared unmoved. When he got up to speak, he described i
- JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Murad Rezaei executed in Zanjan on June 10
JUNE 10, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Anthony Wainwright, 54, White, was executed on June 10
By lethal injection
JUNE 10, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Gregory Hunt, 65, White, was executed on June 10
By nitrogen gas
JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Jalalian executed in Isfahan on June 10
JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Rezaei executed in Arak on June 10
JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Asgari executed in Arak on June 10
JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolsamad Barahui executed in Iranshahr on June 9
JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolbaset Shahdadzehi executed in Zahedan on June 9
JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Hemmati and Hamzeh Yari executed in Karaj on June 9
- JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Khorrami executed in Karaj on June 9
JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Hajibabaei executed in Malayer on June 9
- JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahim Karimi executed in Ghaen on June 8
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mirbalochzehi executed in Iranshahr on June 8
- JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davoud Alinajad executed in Arak on June 8
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shirzad Fahimi executed in Shirvan on June 8
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Samadi and Mojtaba Taheri executed in Shiraz on June 8
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Heidarzadeh executed in Maragheh on June 8
JUNE 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Mashhad on June 7
Zobeid Ali Maleki, Yashar Haghdoust, Jafar Veisi and a man only identified as Salim
- JUNE 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Amini and Mehdi Moghadam executed in Qazvin on June 6
- JUNE 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Firing squad, electric chair, nitrogen gas, injection: US expands execution methods
- JUNE 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadullah Esmaeili executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 4
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Ghafari executed in Yasuj on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Nabizadeh executed in Urmia on June 3
Or June 2
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Behzadi executed in Manujan on June 3
- JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shoaib Abdulhaq Mohammadi executed in Taybad on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholi Faramarzi executed in Tabriz on June 3
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 executions in Ghezel Hesar on on June 2
Ali Karami Nasr, Alireza Shahbazi, Ali Abbas-Moghaddam, Sajad Nabizadeh, Yasin Aghaei, Nazir Mohammad, Behzad..., + 2 unidentified
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Amin Rastegari executed in Semnan on June 2
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Almasi and Jebreal Hashemzadeh, two cousins, executed in Isfahan on June 2