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 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 PENALTYIRAN- Akhtar Ghorbanloo executed in Ahar on October 1
251 women have been executed in Iran since 2007
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 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nesar Ahmad Rahmati executed in Mashhad on September 30
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Zafarani executed in Birjand on September 29
SEPTEMBER 28, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ 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, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Alan Eugene Miller was executed with nitrogen gas on September 26
The second-ever nitrogen gas execution in the U.S., and the 1600th execution since 1976
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
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Yusef Oghli executed in Tabriz on September 26
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Balandeh Executed in Jiroft Prison on September 25
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Karaj on September 25
The identities of the men were not disclosed
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kambakhsh Mahmoudi executed in Kermanshah on September 25
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 25
Rasoul Shenbandi and Akbar Saadi-Khani
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Marcellus Williams, 55, Black, was executed on September 24
Over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Afrooz and Amirhossein Boroumand executed in Lahijan on September 24
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Alimardani and Mohammad Ghasaban executed in Qazvin on September 23
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fardin Ahmadi executed in Shiraz on September 23
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodamorad Zandi executed in Boroujerd on September 23
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Rasht on September 11 and 23
Mostafa Amani, Nasrollah Pirasteh, Arman Atayi and Ramin Poursafar
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on September 23
Hassan Nejati, Mohammadreza Nejati, Fardin Ahmadi, and Amin Shahabi