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 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 unidentified men executed in Karaj on January 1
JANUARY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj on January 1
Manouchehr Aqabi, Dariush Shekarzadeh, Masoud Rostami, Navkhas Maleki e Afshin Mohammadi
JANUARY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran HRM 2023 Annual Report
850 executions
DECEMBER 31, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: FOUR PEOPLE EXECUTED ON NEW YEAR’S EVE
Sauri Arabia executed four people on New Year’s Eve, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
DECEMBER 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Birjand on December 31
Shir Ahmad Sanjrani, Amanullah Sanjrani, Bidollah Brahui, Ghousalddin Nahtani, Javad Chopani, Hamid Jahani
DECEMBER 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw Organization for Human Rights releases its 2023 report
Execution of 823 Prisoners in Iran during 2023
DECEMBER 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nur Ahmad Ghalandarzahi executed in Shiraz on December 31
DECEMBER 30, 2023JapanDEATH PENALTYNO EXECUTIONS IN JAPAN IN 2023; LAST ONE WAS FOR AKIHABARA KILLER
Japan carried out no executions in 2023 for the first time in three years.
DECEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Shawali executed in Karaj on December 30
DECEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN 2 Afghan citizens executed in Karaj on December 30
Not identified
DECEMBER 29, 2023BurundiDEATH PENALTYBURUNDI: PRESIDENT SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE STONED IN STADIUMS
Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye has said that homosexuals in his country "should be stoned", BBC reported on December 29, 2023.
DECEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Abdullah Parikhani and Abbas Faraj Oghli executed in Meshgin Shahr
Parikhani on December 29, Oghli on December 25
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men “recently” executed in Karaj
Akbar Qara Gozlu, Ehsan Hamedi + Unk.
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 political prisoners executed in Urmia on December 28
3 men and 1 woman: Aram Omri, Rahman Parhazou, Vafa Hanareh, and Nasim Namazi
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Rahbar executed in Gorgan on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Aminikhah executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Eyvazi executed in Kashan on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yazd on December 28
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ismaeil Ghader Magham (Barahoei) executed in Birjand on December 27
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Faghiri Executed in Hamedan on December 27
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Birjand on December 27
Ismail Qadir Maqam, Ahmad Gergij, Mohammad Hissari
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ardabil on December 27
Yasin Khodakarami, Alireza Nejati, Jebreil Fadayi, Ali Zaman Khani
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 women and 1 man executed in Birjand on December 27
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Dahmardeh executed in Birjand on December 27
Nineth person to be executed that day in that prison
DECEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Reza Mehraban executed in Sanandaj on December 26
DECEMBER 26, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR SETTING HIS MOTHER ABLAZE IN NIGER STATE
The Minna High Court presided over by the Chief Judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik, on December 13, 2023 sentenced Stephen Jiya to death by hanging for setting his biological mother ablaze which resulted in her death.
DECEMBER 26, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 2 BANGLADESHIS EXECUTED FOR KILLING AN INDIAN
Two expatriates were executed in Saudi Arabia after they had been convicted in a final court ruling of murdering a man by spraying an insecticide into his mouth, Gulf News reported on December 23, 2023.
DECEMBER 24, 2023MaldivesDEATH PENALTYMALDIVES’ PUSH TO REINSTATE DEATH PENALTY SPARKS UPROAR
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Maldives government to refrain from a planned move to reintroduce the death penalty in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.
DECEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan
Shirali Saeidi and Saman Mogouei on December 23, Reza Keshavarzi on December 22
DECEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karamullah Lorestani and Hossein Papi executed in Khorramabad on December 23