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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MARCH 12, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: SUPREME PROSECUTORS OFFICE REVIEWS 36 DEATH ROW INMATE APPEALS
Taiwan’s Supreme Prosecutors Office is reviewing extraordinary appeal requests from 36 death row inmates following a Constitutional Court ruling last year.
MARCH 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Vahidi executed in Sari on March 12
232 executions in 2025
MARCH 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojjat Torkaman executed in Malayer on March 11
MARCH 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Saeedi executed in Zanjan on March 9
MARCH 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Khosravi executed in Neyshabur on March 9
MARCH 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saber Fathollahi and Zaki Zakeri executed in Shiraz on March 9
MARCH 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad (Afshin) Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on March 8
MARCH 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houshang Mohammadkhani executed in Yazd on March 8
MARCH 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ubaid Maleki executed in Khorramabad on March 8
MARCH 7, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Brad Sigmon, 67, White, was executed
1st Firing Squad Execution in the last 15 years
MARCH 6, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH, SURGICAL CASTRATION OVER RAPE
Two persons have been sentenced to death by hanging, while another was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape in Kaduna.
MARCH 6, 2025West VirginiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - West Virginia. Senate bill reinstates death penalty
Senate Judiciary passed SB 264
MARCH 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Mousavi executed in Kashan on March 6
MARCH 6, 2025United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUNITED ARAB EMIRATES: TWO KERALA NATIVES EXECUTED FOR MURDERS
Two Indians, natives of Kerala, were executed in the UAE on February 28, 2025 after being convicted of murder. The deceased individuals were identified as Muhammed Rinash Arangilottu and Muraleedharan Perumthatta Valappil.
MARCH 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Shokrollahzadeh Executed in Qazvin on March 5
- MARCH 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalal Ashkani executed in Hamedan on March 5
MARCH 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Karimkhani Al-Qalandis executed in Tabriz on March 5
MARCH 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 58th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
In 38 Prisons Across Iran
- MARCH 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ezat Zeinali executed in Ahar on March 4
MARCH 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghasem Sarayi Executed in Qom on March 4
MARCH 4, 2025United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUNITED ARAB EMIRATES: INDIAN WOMAN EXECUTED FOR INFANT’S MURDER
Shahjadi Sabbeer Khan (30), a caregiver from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district who was sentenced to death last year in the United Arab Emirates for the alleged murder of a four-month-old infant, was executed on February 15, 2025, the Ministry of External Aff
MARCH 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 88 executions in February in Iran
MARCH 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iraj Memari executed in Khorramabad on March 2
201 executions in Iran in 2025
- MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Mozaffari and Yaghoub Mirzajani executed in Gorgan on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim and Gholamhossein Khalili executed in Mashhad on March 1
8 executions on March 1 in Mashhad
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 executions in various prisons on March 1
Javad and Alireza Afagh, Mohammad Araqi, Ramin Alaei, Mehrdad Asgarabadi + 2 unidentified
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Fathi executed in Tabriz on March 1
- MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Bamari and Mohammad Raei executed in Birjand on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasrin Barani, a woman, executed in Isfahan on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Ahmadpour executed in Qazvin on March 1