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 5, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Steven Nelson, 37, Black, was executed
FEBRUARY 5, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: EX-POLICE OFFICER HANGED FOR DOUBLE MURDER
A former policeman who was convicted over the murder of two people in 2013 was executed in Singapore on February 5, 2025.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTY
USA - Idaho. House Justice Committee passes firing squad (HB 37)
As main death penalty method
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafez Bani Asadi executed in Mashhad on February 3
- FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamidreza Shahmoradi executed in Khorramabad on February 3
- FEBRUARY 2, 2025South SudanDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH SUDAN: SUDANESE TRADER HANGED FOR DEFILEMENT AND MURDER
A Sudanese trader who was convicted of defiling, murdering, and dumping the body of five-year-old Abuk Lual into a pit latrine in Aweil in 2022 was executed by hanging in South Sudan on January 29, 2025 at Wau Central Prison.
FEBRUARY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Amiri executed in Kermanshah on February 2
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 87 executions in January
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Kaviani executed in Khorramabad on February 1
a Lor woman from Khorramabad
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Jamshidi executed in Sari on February 1
JANUARY 31, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Marion Bowman, 44, Black, was executed
First execution in the US of the new year
JANUARY 31, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Death row population decreased by 63 in 2024
Without any executions
- JANUARY 30, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: 22-YEAR-OLD JAMIU SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING SEX WORKER
An Abeokuta High Court on January 22, 2025 sentenced 22-year-old Jamiu Malomo to death by hanging for stabbing a sex worker to death.
JANUARY 30, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED AFTER CONVICTED ON TERROR CHARGES
Saudi Arabia said on January 28, 2025 it had executed a citizen convicted on terror charges including attacking security forces.
JANUARY 30, 2025MontanaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Montana. House narrowly rejects bill intended to allow death penalty to resume
HB 205
JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Zaboli executed in Yasuj on January 30
- JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Salehzadeh and Abdollah Khademi executed in Isfahan on January 30
JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz
Hamid Fanaei, Amir Fanaei, Rasoul Minaei, Khosrow Abbaszadeh, and Mohammad Ali Heidari
JANUARY 29, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Death Penalty in 2024
New Monthly Podcast from the DPIC
- JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Radmand executed in Rasht “about a month ago”
information received by Hengaw on Feb. 28
JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 26
Farzad Mirzaei, Farhad Ferdini, and Samad Hashemi
- JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Jahangiri executed in Malayer on January 26
Already 81 executions in 2025
JANUARY 25, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Singapore carried out on January 23, 2025 the hanging of a convicted drug trafficker.
JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojjat Panahi executed in Rasht on January 25
- JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Aminnejad and Ebrahim … executed on January 25
In Shiraz and Nishapur
JANUARY 24, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Texas Death Penalty Declining in Use — 2024 in Review
- JANUARY 24, 2025MontanaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Montana. Death penalty bill HB 205 moves forward in Legislature
- JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Besharatlou and Javad Jaberi executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on January 22
JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four prisoners executed in Yazd on January 22
Ahmad Sasouli + 3 Unk
- JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naser Zandipour and Nader Minaeifar executed in Yazd on January 22