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 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Karami-Zadeh and Esmaiel Jawadi executed in Karaj on August 19
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, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Zahrabi executed in Isfahan on August 11
AUGUST 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Dehdari executed in Shiraz on August 11
AUGUST 11, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE 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 8, 2024UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Taberon Dave Honie, 48, Native American, was executed
AUGUST 7, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Arthur Lee Burton, 54, Black, was executed.
AUGUST 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 29 men executed in Karaj on August 7
Maybe also 2 women
AUGUST 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified women execute in Karaj (Central) on August 7
AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Rasaei executed in Kermanshah on August 6
Political prisoner arrested during the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement
AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Gohari executed in Sabzevar on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 6
Aminollah Narui (Narooie), Hamzeh Garavand, and Azad Abdollahi
AUGUST 5, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN HANGED FOR TRAFFICKING 36G OF HEROIN
Singapore on August 2, 2024 hanged a convicted drug trafficker, authorities said, in the city-state's second execution this year.
AUGUST 5, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES CONVICTED ROBBERY GANG OF FIVE
Saudi authorities have executed five individuals convicted of robbery, kidnapping, and killing an Indian man, Gulf News reported on August 2, 2024.
- AUGUST 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Hosseini and Amir Tasbihi executed in Arak on August 4
- AUGUST 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hoy Atef ... executed in Bushehr on August 4
AUGUST 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Salehi and Morteza Seifzadeh executed in Tabriz on August 3
AUGUST 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Malek Ashtar and Ahmadreza Toni executed in Khorramabad on August 3
- AUGUST 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on August 3
Javad Amiri, Naghi Ghorbani, and Reza Rostami
- AUGUST 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Parseh + Unk. executed in Khorramabad on August 1