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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JANUARY 22, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING CHIEF OGBOBULA IN RIVERS
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on January 18, 2024 sentenced to death three men on charges of kidnapping and murder.
JANUARY 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mohammad Ghobadloo executed in Karaj on January 22
JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salman Salimi and Ahmad Haeri executed in Hamedan on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moslem Aliyari executed in Shirvan on January 21
- JANUARY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hasan Gergij executed in Zahedan on January 20
JANUARY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 20
Nouri Zamani, Fathollah Jourkesh and Hosseinali Koutahi
JANUARY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eslahollah Bakhsh and Hamid Ebadinejad executed in Rasht on January 18
JANUARY 17, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DECADE-HIGH SURGE IN EXECUTIONS
Singapore’s government carried out its highest number of executions in more than a decade and sought to intimidate anti-death penalty activists, Human Rights Watch said on January 11, 2024 in its World Report 2024.
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Soleimani executed in Hamedan on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eslam Aman Aldini executed in Qom on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith could be the 1st person executed with nitrogen gas
He spoke with National Public Radio
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mashahdi executed in Mashhad on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on January 17
Bahman Fathollahzadeh, Imani Shabani, Keramat Jan Nazarkhani, + 1 unk.
- JANUARY 16, 2024SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES SEVEN IN JILIB OVER ESPIONAGE ALLEGATIONS
The militant group Al-Shabaab on January 15, 2024 carried out a public execution of seven individuals in Jilib, Middle Juba region.
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Khoroush executed in Shiraz on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Darivishi executed in Kermanshah on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akram Karimpour executed in Hamedan on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Mehri executed in Ilam on January 16
JANUARY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Alimoradi executed in Nahavand on January 15
- JANUARY 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At least six men executed in Karaj on January 14
Ahmad Latifi, Ali Akbar Moradian, Akbar Khoramtash, Hadi Nazari, Seyed Ali Miri and Amirhossein Maleki
JANUARY 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Heidari executed in Khorramabad on January 13
JANUARY 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 17 Groups Call for Action to Halt Execution of Four Kurdish Political Prisoners
Mohsen Mazloum, Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, and Hajir Faramarzi
JANUARY 12, 2024NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR MURDER
A Niger state High Court has convicted and sentenced to death by hanging a man, Tunde Tayo, for the murder of Abdullahi Janiya Yahaya in Maitumbi area of Minna, Niger state in 2019.
- JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Mohammad Ahmadi executed in Kermanshah on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Falit Abed executed in Qazvin on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisam Habibi executed in Kermanshah on January 11
JANUARY 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nizam Dehmordeh executed in Yazd on January 11
- JANUARY 10, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Federal judge rules Alabama’s nitrogen execution of Kenneth Smith can go forward
JANUARY 10, 2024DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ali Mirzaei and Mahmoud Mirzaei executed in Karaj on January 10
JANUARY 8, 2024DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hossein Garavand and Kaiumars Gholami executed in Karaj on January 8