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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NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two more men executed on November 28 in Ilam
Unk so far
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eghbal Fathollahi and Mohsen Amraie executed in Karaj on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hani Shahbazi (Al-Boushehbazi) executed in Ahvaz on November 28.
Shahbazi was arrested during the November 2019 protests
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Bakhshayesh executed in Karaj on 28 November
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Agha Mohammadi and Naser Maghsoudi executed in Ilam on 28 November
- NOVEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Nahavand on November 26
Brothers Farshid and Farshad Pirhayati, Asghar Suri
NOVEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Rastkhiz executed in Shiraz on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Adel Damani executed in Chabahar on November 26
16 years old at the time of the alleged offence
NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Heydari executed in Khorramabad on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two men Executed in Rasht on November 25
Political prisoner Geda Ali Saber Motlagh and Mohsen Sedaghat
NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Rasht on November 25
NOVEMBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified young man executed in Sabzevar on 24 November
Possibly a minor at the time of the crime
NOVEMBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mother of executed protester arrested for wailing at his funeral
Afsaneh Zohrevand, mother of Milad Zohrevand
NOVEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Zohrevand secretly executed in Hamadan on November 23
A political prisoner
NOVEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Gorgij and Shahmorad Davoudi executed in Mashhad on November 23
NOVEMBER 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - BJS released its latest report for the year 2021
2,382 people were under sentence of death in 2021
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Andishkouh and Moslem Jamshidi executed in Karaj on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Zamharir executed in Tabriz on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Karaj on November 22
Loghman Omrani + Unk
- NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza … executed in Karaj on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Rasoul Heydari executed on November 22 in Shiraz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALI: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES SOLDIER FOR MURDER IN GALMUDUG
In the Galgaduud region's Guriceel city, Somalia's Military Court executed soldier Abdisalan Ali Ahmed on November 19, 2023 for the murder of Abdullahi Ali Hudey.
NOVEMBER 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Siamand Bukani (Ostwar) executed in Ardabil on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: LONGEST SERVING DEATH ROW PRISONER RELEASED BY HIGH COURT
On 14 November 2023, Wenceslaus James, the longest serving death row inmate in the country, was released by order of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago. Convicted for murder in 1996, Wenceslaus received the mandatory death sentence for the offence.
NOVEMBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Zainaldini executed in Shiraz on November 19
NOVEMBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on November 19
Abdulghafoor Mahmoudi, Mohammad Hussein TashtZar, Ali Payam
NOVEMBER 16, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Casey McWhorter, 49, White, was executed
NOVEMBER 16, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. David Renteria, 53, Hispanic, was executed
NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two unidentified men executed in Kerman on November 15
NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 more executions in Karaj on November 15
3 other executions have already been reported, bringing the total to 9