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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AUGUST 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 68 Organisations Declare Support for “No Death Penalty Tuesdays”
- AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fahim … executed in Isfahan on August 24
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Barkatali Sanjarani executed in Zahedan on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amirreza Ajam Akrami executed in public in Shahroud on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Tabriz on August 26
Shapour Hosseini, Irfan Abdolazizi, Mohebollah… e Moshref…
AUGUST 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Rashidi executed in Qazvin on August 24
AUGUST 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Abbasi executed in Nahavand on August 22
AUGUST 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Khaled Jahangiri executed in Tabriz on August 22
AUGUST 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Daghestani executed in Urmia on August 21
AUGUST 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Continuation of the "No to Execution Tuesdays" Campaign in 18 Prisons Across the Country
Thirty Weeks of Resistance Against Executions
- AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Piri and Mazaher Ayouzi (Eyvazi) executed in Zanjan on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Yazd at an unspecified date
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Karami-Zadeh and Esmaiel Jawadi executed in Karaj on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 19
Ansar Eftekhareddin, Mahmoud Salim, Abdolraouf Shehbakhsh, Abdolrahman Damani + Unk.
AUGUST 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas A’laei Aqblagh and Ali Azmoon executed in Tabriz on August 18
AUGUST 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on August 17
Yousef Kazemzadeh, Ali Salimi and Heydar (Haider) Arab
AUGUST 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peymanollah Veysi executed in Sanandaj on August 15
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on August 14
Behrouz Vafayi, Saeed Niazi (Ali Niazi), Naser Shafiei and unidentified Afghan man
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farajollah Khashi and Hamed Shehbakhsh executed in Kerman and Bam prisons on August 13 and 14
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Zardkouhi and Mousa-alreza Ebrahimi executed in Sabzevar on August 14.
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elias Rezaei executed in Gorgan on August 14
AUGUST 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified Afghan national executed in Rafsanjan on August 13
- AUGUST 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdollah Lashtaghouni and Hamed Mozafari executed in Bandar Abbas on August 13
AUGUST 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Khorramabad on August 10 and 12
Hossein Hatami, Naser Geravand, Milad Hadipour, Shirzad Reshadat, Ayat Biranvand + Unk
AUGUST 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Tabriz on August 12
Mohammad Ansari Gheshlagh, Ali Mehdian and two unidentified Afghan nationals
- AUGUST 11, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE HANGS PRISONER IN SECOND EXECUTION IN DAYS
Singapore hanged a 59-year-old man on August 7, 2024 for drug trafficking, authorities said, the second execution in the city-state in less than a week.
AUGUST 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Zahrabi executed in Isfahan on August 11
AUGUST 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Dehdari executed in Shiraz on August 11
AUGUST 8, 2024UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Taberon Dave Honie, 48, Native American, was executed
AUGUST 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified women execute in Karaj (Central) on August 7