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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OCTOBER 17, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Derrick Dearman was executed on October 17
20th execution of the year in the US
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nourmorad Garavand and … Sanjari executed in Qazvin on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Karimi and Mohammad Ali Najafi executed in Isfahan on October 17
OCTOBER 16, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. House committee approves subpoena for Robert Roberson ahead of his October 17 execution
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on October 16
Abdolbari Tajik, Pasha Pashto, Javid Ahmadkhani + Rahman …
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Mokhtari executed in Shiraz on October 16
596 executions in 2024
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Fili and an unidentified woman executed on October 16 in Hamedan
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Jashlu executed in Qom on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Mohammadvand executed in Dezful on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Karimi Zarasavand executed in Farokhshahr on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Shirvani and Jafar Sameie executed in Zanjan on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five men executed in Qom from October 6 to 16
Milad Badinlu, Shahin Dehghani, Abdolghader ..., Mohsen Khodabandehlu + Unk.
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdol Nazari executed in Nourabad on October 16
OCTOBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Mohammadi executed in Urmia on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vali Heshmatpour executed in Shirvan on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Soleimani executed in Urmia on October 15
OCTOBER 14, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION BLAMES PRESIDENT RASHID FOR MASS EXECUTIONS, CITING ‘HORRIFIC’ PRACTICES
The human rights organization "AFAD" on October 12, 2024 issued a statement, condemning mass executions by Iraqi authorities, including elderly inmates and some carried out in "horrific" ways, holding President Abdul Latif Rashid responsible.
OCTOBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Younes Akhtar Samar was executed in Jiroft on October 14
OCTOBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Kheshavehpour executed in Mashhad on October 14
OCTOBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ammar Asiyan executed in Kerman on October 13
A former police officer
OCTOBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mirzabeigi executed in Torbat-e Heydarieh on October 13
OCTOBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Shiraz on October 13
Farhad Salimi, Ali Shirvani, Ezzat Heidari, Kazem Saadipour, Reza Namdari, and Hossein Heidari
OCTOBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolghafour Shahoozahi + Unk executed in Birjand on October 13
OCTOBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Najari and Ali Asghar Kujavari (Kojuvari) executed in Tabriz on October 13
OCTOBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Karami executed in Sari on October 12
OCTOBER 10, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - A new documentary, “Rebel Nun,” tells the story of Sister Helen Prejan
40 years against the death penalty
OCTOBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran executed at least 138 Kurdish prisoners over past Islamic year
Between 10 October 2023 and 9 October 2024
OCTOBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Maroufkhani executed in Qazvin on October 10
OCTOBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Maroufkhani and Hamed Jafari executed in Qazvin on October 10
OCTOBER 10, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYCARIBBEAN CHURCH APPEALS FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
Leela Ramdeen, consultant with the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) in Trinidad & Tobago writes: The World Day against the Death Penalty will be observed on Thursday October 10. The 2024 Theme is: The Death Penalty protects no one. Abolish it