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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- SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahin Yusef Oghli executed in Tabriz on September 26
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 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 25
Rasoul Shenbandi and Akbar Saadi-Khani
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 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Afrooz and Amirhossein Boroumand executed in Lahijan on September 24
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 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on September 23
Hassan Nejati, Mohammadreza Nejati, Fardin Ahmadi, and Amin Shahabi
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 PENALTYIRAN - 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 20, 2024South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Freddie Owens, 46, Black, was executed
The state restarted executions after a 13-year pause
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Azizi and Hamed Jahedi executed in Karaj on September 19
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDERING WIFE
A Saudi man was executed after he was convicted of murdering his wife by beating and burning her.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Shah Esmaili and Nasim Narouyi executed in Yazd on September 19
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Secret Execution of 4 men and 2 Women in Qazvin
In unspecified data, in August
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2024North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREA EXECUTES 2 WOMEN WHO FLED AND WERE FORCIBLY REPATRIATED FROM CHINA
North Korea has executed two women who had been forcibly repatriated from China for helping other North Koreans in China escape to South Korea, a human rights organization told Radio Free Asia.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men were executed in Shiraz on September 18
Shahin Salami, Sepehr Nourani, Taher Arezoumand and Kamran Heidari
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Karimi is scheduled to be hanged on 3 October
Unable to come up with the 1.5-million euro blood money
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Darvishi executed in Gorgan on September 18
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024WashingtonDEATH PENALTYUSA - Washington. Washington closes execution chamber at state penitentiary
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza Hassanzehi Sani executed in Bandar Abbas on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 34th Week of “No to Executions Tuesdays” Campaign Begins Across 21 Iranian Prisons
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on September 16
Abdoljalil Ehsani, Yahya Zargari, Mehdi Jahanpour
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Safari executed in Isfahan on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on September 16
Abdoljalil Ehsani, Yahya Zargari, Mehdi Jahanpour
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alimorad Hassanzadeh executed in Gorgan on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Jahanpour was 16 when committed the crime
One of the three men executed in Shiraz on September 16