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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FEBRUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Aliyari and Sadegh Nezakat executed in Qazvin and Neyshabur
On February 16 and 17
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Farahmandijou executed in Behbahan on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Jokar executed in Shiraz on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw’s Statistical Report: 909 Executions in Iran in 2024
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Farahani executed in Arak on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahram Almasi executed in Tabriz on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pejman Bahramian hanged in Kermanshah in February
FEBRUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Kord executed in Ramhormoz on February 15
FEBRUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Bameri executed in Birjand on February 15
FEBRUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Raei executed on February 15 in Birjand
- FEBRUARY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Milad Attar executed in Dezful on February 12
- FEBRUARY 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - ‘Warden, I am ready’: documentary on the death penalty as seen from the point of view of a victim's son
FEBRUARY 13, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. James Ford, 64, White, was executed
FEBRUARY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Younes Kheyrallahpour executed in Aligudarz on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Gov DeWine issues 3 death penalty reprieves
Rescheduling executions to 2028
FEBRUARY 13, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Richard Tabler, 46, White, was executed
FEBRUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Shabakhsh Pirsorani and Tayeb Javadi executed in Isfahan on February 12
FEBRUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Kakavand executed in Malayer on February 12
- FEBRUARY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 55th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
Hunger strike in in 35 Prisons Across Iran
FEBRUARY 10, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Kevin Burns, the death row inmate who celebrates mass on death row
Burns is an evangelical pastor
- FEBRUARY 9, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
AFRICAN COURT ORDERS TANZANIA TO END MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ruled against Tanzania’s mandatory imposition of the death penalty, calling it a violation of fundamental human rights.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahram Manafzadeh and Farhad Abdoli executed in Tabriz on February 9
FEBRUARY 9, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. The Baptist church alongside the victims, not the culprits
The case of Steven Nelson who had killed a Baptist pastor
FEBRUARY 8, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: TWO CITIZENS EXECUTED ON 'TERRORISM' CHARGES
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced on February 5, 2025 that two citizens had been executed after being convicted of “betraying the nation and supporting terrorism.”
FEBRUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Rezaei executed in Zanjan on February 8
FEBRUARY 6, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Demetrius Frazier, 52, Black, was executed
By nitrogen hypoxia
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Mahtab Ghazizadeh, executed in Sari on February 6
265 women have been executed in Iran since 2007
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Golmohammad Gorgij and Abdulhamid Kohkan executed in Gorgan on January 5
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Ahmadi and Saeed Gholami executed in Kermanshah on February 5
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salman Hamdard executed in Borujerd on February 5