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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- DECEMBER 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khairullah Nahtani executed in Zahedan on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three men recently executed in Shiraz
DECEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abid (Obaid) Mahmoudi executed in Kermanshah on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Haji Pour executed in Isfahan on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Majedi executed in Ahvaz on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Habibian Executed in Babol on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Bakshayesh executed in Karaj on December 13
There is a high possibility that he was a child offender
- DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Bababyi executed in Shirvan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Khademi executed in Sanandaj on 12 December
- DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Babaei executed in Shirvan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj on December 12
Amin Zakeri Kakavand, Khalil Haji Abadi, Milad Bideh, Hamid Bakshaish, and Hamid Esmaili
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Haghizadeh executed in Khorramabad on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahram Seyed Zadeh executed in Qom on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Abdolmaleki executed in Qom on December 12
DECEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Jokar executed in Shiraz on December 11
- DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Ketabi executed in Qom on December 9
DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Basit Gorgich (Gorgij) and Abdul Aziz Shahlibur (Shahlibar) executed in Zahedan on December 9
DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Zahedan on December 9
Ehsan Mahmoudzehi + Unk
DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Nasiri and Abbas Ketabi executed in Qom on December 9
DECEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Orumiyeh (Urmia) on December 8
Ali Shahin-Nejad, Solat Tosan, and Janali Nadimi Dargahi
DECEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Human Rights Monitor: 743 executions in 2023
Hands off Cain counted 768 executions
DECEMBER 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Alikhani executed in Rafsanjan on December 7
782 executions in Iran in 2023
DECEMBER 7, 2023KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: EGYPTIAN AND KUWAITI TO HANG FOR KILLING RASHIDI
The Criminal Court on December 4, 2023 sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen and an Egyptian expatriate, who were charged with Mubarak Al-Rashidi's murder, to death by hanging.
DECEMBER 7, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC 2023 Year End Report
24 executions and 21 new death sentences in 2023
- DECEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Zabihollah Arjomand executed in Dehdasht on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khaled Rouhi (Roohi) and Sirus Heydari (Sirous Heidari) executed in Sanandaj on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamal Elhami executed in Saqqez on December 6
DECEMBER 5, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TEACHER EXECUTED FOR RAPING STUDENTS
A middle school teacher in Longhui county, Hunan province, has been executed for raping and molesting multiple students, according to a local court.
DECEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on December 5
Sasan Maleki, Mehdi Moradi, Mojtaba Amiri, and Manouchehr Nourabad Barzgar
DECEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Ajdar executed in Yasuj on December 4