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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APRIL 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Bamari and Yasin Bamari executed in Iranshahr on April 10
APRIL 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moein Ashrafi executed in Shahroud on April 10
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9th
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Aghaei executed in Qom on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrouz Shirmohammadli executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Salimi executed in Borazjan on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Seifi executed in Shiraz on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 Men Hanged in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9
Sajad Akbari, Bahram Hodavand Khani, Salar Amir Jalali, Abolfazl Karimi, Mehdi Salan and two unidentified men. Hengaw (and HoC) already reported the execution of 4 of them
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Memari Hanged in Ahvaz on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) an April 9
Meysam Veysi and Shir-Mohammad Nazarollah
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seifollah Nasiri executed Tabriz on 9 April
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamseddin Fazli Hanged in Tabriz on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kambiz Fathi executed in Kermanshah on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soud Mirzaei and Vahid Ashouri executed in Shiraz on April 9, 2025
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Gholamreza Pardakhteh executed in Shahrud on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Barahouei executed in Mashhad on April 9
APRIL 8, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida - Michael Tanzi, 48, White, was executed
APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Political Prisoners Executed in Mashhad on April 8
Farhad Shakeri, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, and Malek-Ali Fadaie-Nasab
APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified women were executed on 8 April in Mashhad prison
IHR previously wrote of 2
- APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Ahmad Sanai (Mazarehei) and Mohammadreza Damideh executed in Mashhad on April 8
APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 Women and 3 Men executed in Mashhad on April 8
2 Unk women and Mohammadreza Damideh, Amirahmad Sanayi, Sajad Barahouyi
APRIL 7, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REJECTS EXECUTED MURDERER'S APPEAL
The Constitutional Court on April 7, 2025 dismissed an appeal filed by double murderer Huang Lin-kai before his execution, stating it had no jurisdiction over the case.
- APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Abdouli executed in Dezful on April 7
APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Taha Hosseini executed in Bukan on April 7
- APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahram Goudarzi and Taher Shaabani executed in Aligudarz on April 7
- APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Farahani executed in Arak on April 6
- APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Samir Ghasemi executed in Qom on April 6
APRIL 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahir Shamsi executed in Ahvaz on April 5
APRIL 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamil Reshadat executed in Ahvaz on April 5