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 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Global Campaign to End Executions in Iran Gains Support from 1,500 Dignitaries Across 78 Countries
OCTOBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asad Farhang executed in Urmia on October 10
OCTOBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Orumiyeh (Urmia) on October 10
Borhan Ansari + Unk
OCTOBER 9, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: FILIPINO EXECUTED OVER MURDER, DFA SAYS
A Filipino was executed in Saudi Arabia over the murder of a Saudi national, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on October 8, 2024.
OCTOBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on October 9
Majid Afrouz, Mohammad Mashmool, and Ebrahim Sedigh
OCTOBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on October 9
Ahmad Narouei, Mohammad Es’haqzahi, and Kamran Saghaei
OCTOBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Brahooie executed in Zahedan on October 9
Likely a minor at time of offense
OCTOBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iraj Moradian executed in Gorgan on October 9
OCTOBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Fallah executed in Tabriz on October 9
OCTOBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Bakhshayesh was executed in Rasht on October 9
OCTOBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qazvin on October 9
OCTOBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The regime has executed more than 250 people since Massoud Pezeshkian became president
The “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign entered its 37th week
OCTOBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habibullah Mohammadzehi executed in Bam on October 6
- OCTOBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Younes Piroozi executed in Ardabil on October 6
- OCTOBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashkan Yari executed in Hamedan on October 5
OCTOBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Hariri and Reza Soleimanzadeh executed in Gorgan on October 3.
OCTOBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Tayeb Mansouri executed in Isfahan on October 3
OCTOBER 2, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Garcia White, 61, Black, was executed on October 2
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Shahbazi and Fazlollah Pournasiri executed in Karaj on October 2
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men 1 woman executed in Karaj on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Feizi (Feyzi) executed in Tabriz on October 2
21 Women Executed in 2024
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayat Abdolfathi executed in Ahvaz on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 2
Mohammad Chaman Pira, Abbas Khodayari and Seyed Naser Hosseini
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identified woman hanged Oct. 2: Leila Ghaemi
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj on October 2
Ali Mamashlou and Morteza Abdolhosseinpour
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafar Hivechi executed in Gonbad Kavous on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dastgir Sasuli and Rashid Sepahi executed on October 1
In Saravan and Semnan prisons
OCTOBER 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Last Week America Carried Out Its 1,600th Execution Since 1976.
When Will the Madness Stop?
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ilam on October 1
Nima Moradi, Nosratollah Mnati, and Mehdi Khorsan
- OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men executed in Kerman on October 1
Not identified