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 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and Majid Jamali executed in Rasht on November 7
- NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more executions in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 6
10 executions the same day
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on November 6
Ajmal Azizi, Jalil Eghbali, Faramarz Enhesari, Mostafa Sarlak, Mohammad-Hossein Bayat, Mohammad Tajik, Sadegh … + Unk.
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Stay of execution for Thomas Creech
Serial Killer who by now spent 50 years in prison
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ezat Seyedi executed in Zanjan on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Alibabayi executed in Shiraz on November 6
717 executions in Iran in 2024
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Rouzbahani executed in Khorramabad on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iraj Shabdiz and Ali Ahmadzadeh executed in Gorgan on November 6
- NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Ramezani executed in Ahar on November
- NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Darvishi executed in Khorramabad on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Ghasemi executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 6
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Yazd on November 5
Mohsen Nejadi Moghaddam + 2 Unk
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in Mashhad on November 5
Mahmoud Shahraki, Mohammad-Reza Davar, Zaher Safari, Majid Ghadiri + 2 Unk
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaghoub Narouyi executed in Zahedan on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dariush Saeedi and Hamed Mehraban executed in Hamedan on November 5
NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aref Kamali executed in Jiroft on November 5
NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Momeni and Ramin Kazem Aliloo executed in Urmia on November 4
NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arvin Ghahremani executed in Kermanshah on November 4
A young Iranian Jewish man
NOVEMBER 4, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. The legal standoff continues over Robert Roberson
The subpoena calling for him to testify before aTexas House Committee
- NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mansour Rastakhiz executed in Kahnuj on November 4
- NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Jamshidi and Mohammadreza Sotoodeh executed in Shiraz on November 4
NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Ahmadi and Mansour Rastakhzi executed in Kahnuj on November 4
- NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashkan Asgari executed in Arak on November 3
- NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Daryoush Saeedi executed in Hamedan on November 3
NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Kazem Alilu and Ali Momeni executed in Urmia on November 3
NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Abbas Moghaddam executed in Karaj on November 3
- NOVEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on November 2
Moaven Mirjahani, Shahrokh Saeedkhani, Mohammad-Javad Karami
- NOVEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholamali Shakerian executed in Ahvaz on November 2
NOVEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soleiman Abbaspour, a possible child offender, was executed in Zanjan on November 2
NOVEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 161 prisoners executed in October
5 women