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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- APRIL 5, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Derrick Dearman Asks to Be Executed
APRIL 4, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, Black, was executed
APRIL 2, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Attorney general report says Ohio's death penalty is "unworkable"
Dave Yost backs bill to change it
MARCH 31, 2024SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: A COURT IN GALMUDUG STATE EXECUTES TWO MEN BY FIRING SQUAD FOR MURDER
A court in the Galgadud region on March 28, 2024 executed two men by firing squad for murder, in different cases.
MARCH 29, 2024OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. James Ryder not competent to be executed
MARCH 29, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Alan Eugene Miller’s lawsuit seeks to block 2nd execution using nitrogen gas
Miller survived a 2022 lethal injection attempt
MARCH 27, 2024YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: HOUTHIS SENTENCE MEN TO DEATH, FLOGGING
A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an unfair mass trial based on dubious charges of “sodomy,” Human Rights Watch said on March 27, 2024.
MARCH 26, 2024CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. San Quentin’s death row empties
2/3 of death row inmates transferred to “normal” maximum security prisons
- MARCH 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men and 1 woman executed in Tabriz
Abbas Aghayi, Yasin Zolfaghari and his unidentified wife
- MARCH 21, 2024DEATH PENALTY
RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR DRUG OFFENCES IN 2023
At least 467 people were executed for drug offences in 2023, a new record, according to Harm Reduction International (HRI), an NGO that has been tracking the use of the death penalty for drugs since 2007.
- MARCH 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - “Black Tuesdays” Hunger Strikes Against the Death Penalty
Political prisoners from five prisons
MARCH 20, 2024MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR 200KG OF DRUGS IN TAWAU
A mechanic was sentenced to death by the Tawau High Court on March 8, 2024 for trafficking nearly 200kg of syabu.
MARCH 20, 2024DEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Willie Pye, 59, Black, was executed
3rd execution of 2024 in the US
MARCH 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 Public Executions in 2023
MARCH 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Tabarzin executed in Tabriz on March 17
MARCH 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yadollah Talebvand executed in Khorramabad on March 17
An army officer
- MARCH 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Implemented Executions versus Forgiveness
282 executions for murder, but 857 avoided
- MARCH 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 Juvenile Offenders Executed in 2023
2 confirmed, 3 unconfirmed
MARCH 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Bidrang executed in Qazvin on March 14
MARCH 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Executions for Adultery and Blasphemy in 2023
MARCH 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moein Salahvarzi executed in Ilam on March 11
After 32 years on death row
MARCH 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nour-Mohammad Tajik and Abdolbaset … executed in Karaj on March 11
Afhan nationals
MARCH 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Mansouri executed in Ilam on March 11
MARCH 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Top US Nitrogen Gas Producers Ban Use in Executions
MARCH 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Gorgij executed in Zanjan on March 7
MARCH 7, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: FIVE PAKISTANIS EXECUTED FOR MURDER DURING ARMED ROBBERY
Five Pakistanis have been executed on March 5, 2024 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on charges of killing a watchman during an armed robbery.
MARCH 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fakhredin Mangur-Nejad and Abbas Dadvar executed in Mahabad on March 7
MARCH 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Hadi Khanlu executed in Zanjan on March 7
MARCH 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salim Bagheri executed in Kashan on March 6
MARCH 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Rakhshani executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on March 6