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 15, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Glen Rogers, 62, White, was executed on May 15
MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Dahmordeh executed in Zabol on May 15
450th execution of 2025 in Iran
MAY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Akbar Ansari executed in Isfahan on May 15
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moshir Osmanzadeh executed in Urmia on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Miri and Sajjad Moradi executed in Karaj on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Soleimani executed in Shiraz on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ebrahim Esfandiari executed in Mashhad on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamabbas Cheraghian executed in Karaj on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Naeem Danesh executed in Isfahan on May 14
MAY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on May 14
Naser Hamidi, Isa Ahmadi, Hadi Soleimani
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Reza Sabzi executed in Malayer on May 13
16 at time of crime
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Baharvand executed in Khorramabad on May 13
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahtab Amiri, a woman, executed in Shiraz on May 13
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Joghatay Executed in Gonabad on May 13
- MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed prisoner executed in Karaj on May 13
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 68th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Nasri Zar executed in Karaj on May 12
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Gorgan on May 12
Mahboobeh Khosrow-Nejad, Firooz (Erfan) Aliyari, Safa Qaradashi
- MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalil Azizi executed in Arak on May 12
- MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kourosh Jalili executed in Karaj on May 12
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Hojatzadeh executed in Isfahan on May 12
427 executions in Iran nel 2025
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Arak on May 12
Mohammad Abdi, Nemat Pirizali and Jalil Azizi
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Abolhosseini and Asrar Amani executed in Shiraz on May 12
MAY 12, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYITALY - Oshima "The hanging"
In Perugia, on May 14
MAY 11, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING COUSIN OVER PROPERTY ISSUE
Rawalpindi female additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) on May 10, 2025 handed down death sentence to a 22-year-old woman for killing her paternal cousin over property and marriage issues.
MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fereydoun Mohammadi and Mohammad-Ali Miri executed in Zahedan on May 11
- MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Miyaneh on May 11
- MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Sedighi executed in Shahroud on May 11
MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Haghi executed in Yazd on May 11
MAY 8, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Botched firing squad execution
Autopsy suggests shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi's heart