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 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on December 9
Omid Hosseinzayi, Khodabakhsh Ghanbarzehi (Barahi), and … Rakhshani
DECEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Ghasemi executed in Isfahan on December 9
DECEMBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulghafour Razmdideh Rigi executed in Birjand on December 8
DECEMBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Atashzadeh executed in Kashan on December 8
- DECEMBER 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jaber Ansari and Ashkan Fathi executed in Isfahan on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ameneh Alipour, a woman, executed in Zanjan on December 7
DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Khaleqi Farghani executed in Mashhad on December 5
Execution carried out on his 22nd birthday
- DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahdi Hossein Zahi executed in Zahedan on December 5
DECEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sina Shams-Elahi executed in Miandoab on December 4
DECEMBER 4, 2024IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYFRANCE REQUESTS TRANSFER OF DEATH ROW CONVICT HELD IN INDONESIA
France has asked Indonesia to transfer a French death row convict, who has been jailed for drug crimes in the country since 2005, a senior minister told AFP on November 29, 2024.
DECEMBER 3, 2024MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Christopher Collings, 49, White, was executed on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadeq Asadi executed in Yasuj on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Sa’adati executed in Rasht on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on December 3
Khalil Hassanzadeh, Abdullah Panah, Rasoul Ebrahimi
DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 45th week of “No to Executions Tuesdays”
DECEMBER 3, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA SURPASSES 300 EXECUTIONS IN 2024
Saudi Arabia has put over 300 people to death in 2024, according to an AFP tally, after four executions announced on December 3 brought the kingdom's total to a level far outstripping the highest known annual figures.
DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Ahmadian executed in Gorgan on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 women and 2 men executed in Ilam on December 2
Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavari-Zadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beigi, Abdolvahab Babakhaniyan
- DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khadanur Gorgij executed on December 2
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farkhondeh Allah Moradi executed in Isfahan on December 1
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Peyman Zarei executed in Shiraz on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 126 prisoners executed during November 2024
Hengaw report
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shah-Bakhsh (Khanshini) executed in Zahedan on December 1
NOVEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 30
Amir Moradi + 3 Unk.
NOVEMBER 29, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE - Iranian-Singaporean Masoud Rahimi Mehrzad executed on November 29
Arrested at 20 for 31 grams of diamorphine
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Hemati executed in Arak on November 28
- NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Ali Taheri executed in Qazvin on November 28
818 executions in Iran in 2024
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men, 1 of them a minor, executed in Yazd on November 28
Ismail Barakzai, a minor, Davood Mohammadi Takht-Shah, Osman Dahmardeh
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahim Esmailpour executed in Yazd on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Siavash Yari and Mohammad Ali Darkeh executed in Ardakan on November 28