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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NOVEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Davood Rajabi executed in Qom on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Pashayi executed in Tabriz on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2024IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Supreme Court rejects Creech cruel and unusual punishment argument
Creech survived his 1st execution attempt in February
NOVEMBER 27, 2024Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTYCOUNCIL OF EUROPE - Round table on measures against the trade of goods used for executions
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Khosrawi Sadkharv executed in Gorgan on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Basati Valiabad executed in Karaj (Central) on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jahangir (Moslem) Rahimi executed in Saqqez on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Taherkhani executed in Qazvin on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Alipour executed in Qazvin on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Mirzaqassemi executed in Zanjan on November 26
- NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Basati Valiabad executed in Karaj (Central) on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amirhossein Rahimi and Ali Rostami executed in Isfahan on November 26
- NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Central) on November 25
Ashkan Moradi, Jalal Haj Babayi, and Davood Heidari
NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Shahbazi Khalari and Nezamoddin Nouralhagh executed in Shiraz on November 23 and 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Central) on November 25
Ashkan Moradi, Jalal Haj Babay and Davoud Heidari
- NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Nourian executed in Mashhad on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Shahbazi Khalari executed in Shiraz on November 25
NOVEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fariba Maleki Shiravand hanged in Khorramabad on November 24
Female prisoner
NOVEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two unidentified Afghan nationals executed in Ghezel Hesar on November 24
NOVEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Souri and Moslem Jafari executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on November 24
NOVEMBER 24, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE HANGS DRUG TRAFFICKER, THIRD SUCH EXECUTION IN A WEEK
Singapore has carried out its third hanging of a convicted drug trafficker in a week despite appeals for clemency from the United Nations.
NOVEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Ghanizadeh executed in Jiroft on November 23
780 executions in Iran in 2024
- NOVEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nasser Ghabel Salmani executed in Jiroft on November 23
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Statement condemning the death sentences handed down in Iran
Highlighting the cases of political activists Varisheh Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Nouri executed in Hamedan on November 21
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Hamedan on November 21
Arslan Habibi, Jabbar Keyfari, and Amir-Hossein Rostami, who was a minor
NOVEMBER 21, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Carey Dale Grayson was executed with nitrogen on November 21
The daughter of his victim spoke out against capital punishment
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Jafari executed in Shahrekord on November 21
- NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sirus Jafari executed in Rasht on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Talebian and Morteza Daneshvand executed in Tabriz on November 20