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 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj on October 2
Ali Mamashlou and Morteza Abdolhosseinpour
OCTOBER 2, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Garcia White, 61, Black, was executed on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Last Week America Carried Out Its 1,600th Execution Since 1976.
When Will the Madness Stop?
- OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dastgir Sasuli and Rashid Sepahi executed on October 1
In Saravan and Semnan prisons
- OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 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
OCTOBER 1, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: HIGHEST EXECUTION TOLL IN DECADES AS AUTHORITIES PUT TO DEATH 198 PEOPLE
Saudi Arabian authorities have put to death over 198 individuals so far in 2024, the highest number of executions recorded in the country since 1990, Amnesty International said on September 28, 2024.
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdol Habibi executed in Kahnuj on October 1
518 executions in Iran in 2024
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Monthly report: 73 executions in September
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Mozaffari executed in Kashan on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kavandi and Ali Bahrami executed in Zanjan on October 1
- OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN- Akhtar Ghorbanloo executed in Ahar on October 1
251 women have been executed in Iran since 2007
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafar Hivechi executed in Gonbad Kavous on October 1
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nesar Ahmad Rahmati executed in Mashhad on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED SINCE JUNTA SEIZED POWER, RIGHTS GROUPS SAY
Myanmar’s military regime executed on September 23, 2024 two anti-coup activists, rights groups have said.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Public hanging of two unnamed men
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The two men publicly executed on September 30 identified as Reza Rashno Sadeghi and Haji Kaboudvand
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Zafarani executed in Birjand on September 29
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ HANGS 21 MOSTLY ON ‘TERROR’ CHARGES – SOURCES
Iraqi authorities have hanged at least 21 people, including a woman, most of them convicted over “terrorism” charges, three security sources said on September 25, 2024.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Emanullah Nahtani executed in Zahedan on September 26
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, Black, was executed on September 26
The 17th execution this year in the US
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Ekhlaspour executed in Kerman on September 26
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Ataei executed in Isfahan on September 26
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Parsa Hassanzadeh executed in Isfahan on September 26