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 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Bahmanyari execeted in Ganaveh on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA - ESOHR Year-End Report
345 executions in 2024
JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Alizahi e Amir Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Azadi executed in Hamedan on January 5
- JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Arzandeh and Mohammadreza Hosseinzadeh executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Alizahi (Sargolzahi) and Amir-Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran News Update Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 997 in 2024
JANUARY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramezan Taheri executed in Taybad on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valiollah Kamalpour executed in Semnan on January 4
JANUARY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on December 29 and January 2
Mostafa Shakeri, Khosrow Khodadadi, and Karim Bahmani
JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Farhadi and Reza Bakhtiari executed in Kermanshah on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 1
Arshia …, Amin … + 1 Unk.
JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 901 in 2024
JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 1
Ali Vahdani, Hassan Vahdani, and Shahram Mahdavi
- JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on January 1
Heydat Ghasemi and two unidentified Afghans
JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Bandar Abbas
Heydat Ghasemi, Shahrokh Sabahpour, Ramzi Beigsowar + 2 Unk
- JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Update: 10 executions in Karaj on January 1
Previous information spoke of 3, or 6 executions
- JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shafi Mousavi executed in Malayer on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrouz Mehrani executed in Gorgan on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Moradi executed in Ahvaz on January 1
JANUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pezhman (Pejman) Masoudi Koushk executed in Yasuj on January 1
DECEMBER 31, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 330 PEOPLE EXECUTED THIS YEAR, HIGHEST NUMBER IN DECADES
Saudi Arabia has reportedly executed 330 people this year, in what rights groups are calling the highest number in decades.
DECEMBER 31, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: AT LEAST 338 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN 2024
Saudi Arabia carried out at least 338 executions in 2024, sharply up on the 170 recorded in 2023 and the highest number in decades, according to an AFP tally of official reports.
- DECEMBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yavar Abdali executed in Dezful on December 31
DECEMBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 34 Women Executed in 2024
Year-end report of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
DECEMBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qazvin on December 31
Amir Mohammadi + 2 unk
DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Barahouei and Kurus Naroui executed in Isfahan on December 30
- DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on December 30
Ahmad Barahooie (Brahui) Chenal, Kourosh Narooie, Ayat Pourmansouri, and Babak Shoghi.
- DECEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalal Stanekzai executed in Aligudarz on December 29
- DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahan Tigh third man executed in Jiroft on Dec. 26
951 executions in Iran in 2024