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 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Arbabzehi and Abdolhagh Gomshadzehi executed in Zahedan on November 11.
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 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 PENALTY
IRAN - 9 prisoners executed in Karaj on November 8
Rasul Taimuri, Hossein Hawasi, Bahman Fethullahzadeh + 6 Unk
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Aghaei executed in Kermanshah on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Bandar Abbas on November 8
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 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Partowi executed in Kermanshah on November 7
- NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Farokhi executed in Urmia on November 8
NOVEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghasem Abasteh, a Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner, executed in Ghezel Hesar on November 5
NOVEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saied Alizehi and Esmaiel Alizehi executed in Zahedan on November 4
Two Baloch brothers
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on November 2
Ebrahim Naroi (Narui, Narooie), Nasir Karimi, and Ali Hadi + Unk
NOVEMBER 2, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FIVE MEN EXECUTED FOR MURDER IN SOMALILAND
The self-declared Republic of Somaliland on November 1st, 2023 executed five men for murder in Hargeisa.
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 women and a man sentenced to death for adultery
Leila Khalghi Sakachayi, Mitra … and Abolfazl Barat Vakili
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Golmohammadi executed in Arak on November 2
- NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN 6 men executed in Karaj on November 1
Ehsan Haddad, Abbas Anarki, Kuchak Behrouz, Mohsen Abbasi, Yadalollah Farrokhi and Sadegh Tajik.
NOVEMBER 1, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas
Execution for Kenneth Eugene Smith
NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Tajik and Yadollah Farrokhi executed in Karaj on November 1
NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Foroughmanesh, a woman, executed in Yasuj on November 1.
15th woman execution recorded in 2023 in Iran
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Nutizehi executed in Isfahan on October 30
648 executions so far in 2023
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed on October 30
At an unspecified prison in Golestan province
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Salkhord, Shahab Sadeghzadeh, and Mansour Taqvaei executed in Shiraz on October 30