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 20, 2024South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Freddie Owens, 46, Black, was executed
The state restarted executions after a 13-year pause
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 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Azizi and Hamed Jahedi executed in Karaj on September 19
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 18, 2024North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH 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 PENALTYIRAN - 4 men were executed in Shiraz on September 18
Shahin Salami, Sepehr Nourani, Taher Arezoumand and Kamran Heidari
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Secret Execution of 4 men and 2 Women in Qazvin
In unspecified data, in August
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
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on September 16
Amir Naderzadeh, Sajad Fadayi, Abdollah Abdolsamad, Behzad Bagheri and Mobasher …
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sasan Ben and Saeed Khajeh Heydari executed in Shiraz on September 15
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arastoo Safarghomi and Rasoul Pourmajed executed in Tabriz on September 15
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Bandegi and Abdulrahman Tajik executed in Karaj on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Yousefi executed on September 11 in Nowshahr
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Bagheri executed in Dastgerd on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Bakhshi and Farzad Rashidi executed in Rasht on September 11
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: THREE EXECUTED ON TERROR CHARGES
Saudi Arabia has executed three people in Riyadh convicted of terror-related charges, the Ministry of Interior said on September 8, 2024.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: SIX EXECUTED, FEMALE CONVICT SPARED AT FINAL HOUR
Kuwait on September 5, 2024 carried out the death sentences issued against six individuals who were convicted of murder, in the first hangings in the country in two years.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Fashi executed in Kermanshah on September 10
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kiumars Alayi executed in Qazvin on September 10
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN Mansour Salari executed in Jiroft on September 10
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolkarim Habibi executed in Kahnui on September 9