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 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 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 6
Aminollah Narui (Narooie), Hamzeh Garavand, and Azad Abdollahi
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 5, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI 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 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 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hoy Atef ... executed in Bushehr on August 4
- AUGUST 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Hosseini and Amir Tasbihi executed in Arak on August 4
- AUGUST 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on August 3
Javad Amiri, Naghi Ghorbani, and Reza Rostami
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 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Parseh + Unk. executed in Khorramabad on August 1
- JULY 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Heshmat Moradian executed in Yasuj on July 31
- JULY 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fazl Ahmad Fatehnia executed in Zahedan on July 31
- JULY 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kazem Fatehi executed in Isfahan on July 31
JULY 31, 2024South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Supreme Court rules that firing squad is legal
JULY 30, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI MAN EXECUTED IN HEROINE SMUGGLING
A Pakistani citizen on July 29, 2024 was executed in a heroine smuggling case in Saudi Arabia.
JULY 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nabi Bakhsh Molazehi executed in Minab on July 30
JULY 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahim Jangizehi executed in Minab on July 29
JULY 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men and 1 woman executed in Khorramabad on July 27
Ardeshir Maleki, Azim Amrayi (Emraei), … Farrokhnejad + Unk.
- JULY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghadir Jamshidi executed in Torbat-e Jam on July 25
JULY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Sheikheh executed in Urmia on July 25
Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner
- JULY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hasan Yousefi Azar executed in Urmia on July 25
JULY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Moharramkhani and Hamed Naderi executed in Qazvin on July 25
- JULY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ramezan Gholamian and Mousa Najar executed in Mashhad on July 24
JULY 24, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED OVER TERROR CRIME
Saudi Arabia has issued a statement informing citizens and residents of a death sentence being carried out against a Saudi national, Khaleej Times reported on July 23, 2024.
JULY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramezan … executed in Mashhad on July 24
JULY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mutiullah Barakzai executed in Qaen on July 24
JULY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gulab Shah Nurzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on July 23