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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JANUARY 20, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR COMMITTING DEADLY ‘REVENGE ON SOCIETY CRIMES’
China has executed two men who committed deadly attacks that killed dozens in November, raising concerns about a surge in what are called “revenge on society crimes”, state media reported.
JANUARY 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Agrees to Use of Disputed Confession for Life Sentence
Accused 9/11 Mastermind
JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Mohammadi executed in Arak on January 19
- JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahram Valipour and Hossein Farhadi executed in Gorgan on January 19
JANUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two Iranian supreme court judges shot dead
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Third man executed in Khorrambad on January 16
Mohammad Amiri-Bahravand
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Zeinabi and Saman Davoudian executed in Khorramabad on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saiwan Yaqoubi executed in Sanandaj on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Department of Justice Withdraws Federal Execution Protocol
And Keeps Moratorium on Executions in Place
JANUARY 16, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN EXECUTES DEATH ROW INMATE CONVICTED IN 2013 MURDERS
Taiwan on January 16, 2025 executed a death row inmate convicted in a 2013 double murder, marking the country's first execution since President Lai Ching-te took office last year.
- JANUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on January 15
Farrokh Nasiri, Mansour Qolizadeh, and Payam Cheraghi
JANUARY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 51st week of the “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign
Hunger strikes in 34 female and male prisons
JANUARY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHRS Year-End report. Iran Executed More than 1000 in 2024.
JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Fallah executed in Semnan on January 12
- JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Pouya Asgari executed in Arak on January 12
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Samad Najar-Asl executed in Isfahan on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 9
Behrouz Ghasemi, Houshang Shahi, Samad Najjar Asl
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Norouzi executed in Qom on January 9
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ashna (Noutizehi) executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 938 in 2024
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Baoo Dieselabadi executed in Sari on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 8
Salman Bozorgmehr, Reza Azizian, and Ashkan Pirian + 2 Unk
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on January 7
Mozafar Shahsavari, Mohammad Shahidi, and Ashkan Kazemi
- JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Mehrabadi executed in Sabzevar on January 7
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Volker Türk "deeply troubled by the marked increase in executions in Iran in 2024"
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran HRM Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 993 in 2024
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN Farman Afristam executed in Kermanshah on January 7
- JANUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Saadi executed in Ahvaz on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Atin and Reza Seyedi executed in Mahabad on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Year-End Report on Women
31 women executed in 2024