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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JULY 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kazem Fatehi executed in Isfahan on July 31
JULY 31, 2024South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Supreme Court rules that firing squad is legal
- JULY 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Heshmat Moradian executed in Yasuj on July 31
JULY 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fazl Ahmad Fatehnia executed in Zahedan on July 31
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, 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 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramezan Gholamian and Mousa Najar executed in Mashhad on July 24
JULY 23, 2024IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 10 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN NASIRIYAH'S CENTRAL PRISON FOR TERRORISM
Iraqi authorities on July 22, 2024 hanged 10 people convicted of "terrorism", security and health sources said.
JULY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men and 3 women executed in Birjand on July 23
Amir Hamzeh Barahooie Mojarrad, Vahid Vahdani + 5 Unk
JULY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gulab Shah Nurzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on July 23
JULY 22, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING ADOPTIVE PARENTS IN NILAI
A 45-year-old man was ordered to be sent to the gallows by the High Court in Seremban after he was found guilty of the double murders of his adoptive parents, The Star reported on July 4, 2024.
- JULY 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Falahi executed in Qom on July 22
- JULY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on July 21
Davood Brahui, Saeed Mohammadpour, Mehdi-Ali Akbari + unidentified Afghan
JULY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Daniyal Kazeminejad executed in Kermanshah on July 21
On charges of murdering a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- JULY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men and 1 woman executed in Shiraz on July 20
Mansour Tavakoli, Hamed Shekasteh, Mohsen Ostovari, and … Mahmoudinia
- JULY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Sepahvand executed in Khorramabad on July 20
- JULY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Sepahvand executed in Khorramabad on July 20
JULY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Edris Jamshidzahi executed in Zahedan on July 18
JULY 18, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Keith Edmund Gavin was executed on July 18
64, Black
JULY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Teklo executed in Baft on July 18
- JULY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taher Sadeghi executed in Rasht on July 17