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 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least three men executed in Karaj on November 15
Bagher Mohammadi Geravand, Nazir Mohammad + Unk
NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Zarkhatoun Mazarzehi, executed in Kerman on November 15
19th woman executed in Iran in 2023
NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Bakhshandeh executed in Gonbad Kavous on November 15
NOVEMBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Shirzadeh executed in Tabriz on November 15
NOVEMBER 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arman Babazadeh Ayan executed in Salmas on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bandar Abbas
Date of execution not specified
NOVEMBER 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Gomshadzehi executed in Zahedan on November 14
NOVEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Reza Hosseini executed in Hamedan on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three Baluch political prisoners executed in Zahedan on November 13
Mohammad Barahouyi Anjomani, Mohammad Karim Barkazayi Akson and Edris Bilrani
NOVEMBER 13, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL EXECUTED FOR CHILD RAPE
A former principal of a primary school in Gansu province was executed through lethal injection on November 7, 2023 following a death penalty sentence for rape and sexually molesting minors.
NOVEMBER 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahbaz Latifi Sarini executed in Kermanshah on November 13
NOVEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza … executed in Isfahan on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 12
Vahid Salemi, Behrouz Dinarbar and Ahmad Mohammadi
NOVEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Joshani and Taher Arefi executed in Shiraz on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolkhalegh Parvizi executed in Ramhormoz on November 12
NOVEMBER 11, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alanama. Jan. 25 execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith
Using the new method of nitrogen hypoxia
NOVEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisam Chandani executed in Zahedan on November 11
A Baloch political prisoner
- NOVEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Barakzehi executed in Saravan on November 11
- NOVEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fahim Moghabeli executed in Jifoft on November 11
NOVEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Arbabzehi and Abdolhagh Gomshadzehi executed in Zahedan on November 11.
NOVEMBER 9, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Brent Brewer, 53, White, was executed
NOVEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar … executed in Tabriz “in the last week”
692 executions in Iran in 2023
NOVEMBER 9, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES FIVE MEN TO DEATH BY HANGING
The Benue State High Court in Makurdi, on November 8, 2023 sentenced five men to death by hanging for culpable homicide.
NOVEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolreza Gholami executed in Kerman on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojat Gharebiglu executed in Zanjan on November 9
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khodadad Rahimi and Saber Alikhani executed in Kashan on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Khorshidi executed in Urmia on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Ali Abbasi executed in Gorgan on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Kerman on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 prisoners executed in Karaj on November 8
Rasul Taimuri, Hossein Hawasi, Bahman Fethullahzadeh + 6 Unk