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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DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Gonabad on December 26
Javad Ghaffari, Ahmad Ghafran, Abdollah Naroui and Hossein Salarzehi
DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Fakhri and Asad Amini executed in Jiroft on December 26
948 executions in Iran in 2024
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on December 25
Masoud Jalilian, Hassan Mansouri, Hamed Pakdaman
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Pournaghi executed in Tabriz on December 25
- DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Ranjbar and Kateb Seyednian executed in Shiraz on December 25
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on December 25
Iman Yazdani, Davood Barati, and Mohammad-Ali Soleimankhani
DECEMBER 25, 2024TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: TRIO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KAGERA DURING 2024
Three people have been sentenced to death by hanging in Kagera region, Tanzania, during 2024 after they were convicted of murder.
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Keshavarzi executed in Shiraz on December 25
- DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Javad Gudarzi executed in Aligurdaz on December 25
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk executed in Fars province on December 24
930 executions in 2024
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Farahmand executed in Shiraz on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahm Khani executed in Navahand on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 48th week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulrahman Eshaqzahi executed in Mashhad on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Khosravi and Davood Qalijkhani executed in Birjand on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asghar Ghaffari executed in Qom on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Brothers Ali and Jasem Manian executed in Isfahan on December 24
- DECEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarhossein Shokri executed in Khorramabad on December 24
DECEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Loghman Ahmadi Aghdam executed in Urmia on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Arjmand executed in Arak on December 23
DECEMBER 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Johari and Karim Oladi executed in Qazvin on December 22
DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soltan Jahantigh executed in Zahedan on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arman Samadi executed in Isfahan on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashkan Parseh executed in Isfahan on 21 December
- DECEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Moradian executed in Kermanshah on December 21
DECEMBER 19, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Kevin Ray Underwood, 45, White, was executed on December 19
DECEMBER 19, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - “The Death Penalty in 2024: Year End Report”
25 executions, 26 new death sentences
DECEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Kabiri executed in Miandoab on December 19
DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Jamshidian and Jebrael Naseri were executed in Rasht on December 14 and 18
- DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shamsollahi executed in Hamedan on December 18