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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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 PENALTYIRAN - Implemented Executions versus Forgiveness
282 executions for murder, but 857 avoided
MARCH 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Bidrang executed in Qazvin on March 14
MARCH 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 Juvenile Offenders Executed in 2023
2 confirmed, 3 unconfirmed
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
- MARCH 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - IHR 2023 year report: 834 executions
Hands off Cain counted 883
MARCH 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman … and Mostafa Jamil Samadi executed in Shiraz on March 4
MARCH 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Galavi executed in Khash on March 3
- MARCH 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed … executed on March 3
Sentenced as a “Mossad agent”
- MARCH 2, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: FIVE YEMENIS EXECUTED IN LATEST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WAVE
Saudi Arabia on February 28, 2024 executed five Yemeni nationals charged with murder and robbery, state media reported, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 34.
MARCH 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - "Only" 10 eecutions in February
Becouse of the elections
MARCH 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYEUROPEAN UNION - Statement on the latest executions in US
FEBRUARY 29, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: BANGLADESHI MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Singapore on February 28, 2024 hanged a Bangladeshi man for murder, police said, in the first execution this year in the city-state.
FEBRUARY 29, 2024LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Senate passed HB 6
Allowing nitrogen suffocation as option for killing prisoners
FEBRUARY 29, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 61 botched executions since 1977
The last one yesterday, in Idaho, against Thomas Creech
FEBRUARY 28, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Ivan Cantu, 50, White, executed
garnered support from celebrities
FEBRUARY 28, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 7 EXECUTED FOR 'TERRORISM' OFFENSES, STATE MEDIA SAY
Saudi Arabia executed seven people for "terrorism" offenses on February 27, 2024, state media said, the highest single-day figure since 81 were put to death in March 2022.
FEBRUARY 26, 2024AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: THE TALIBAN HOLD ANOTHER PUBLIC EXECUTION AS THOUSANDS WATCH AT A STADIUM
The Taliban held a public execution on February 26, 2024 of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to be carried out in the past five days.