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.
Latest news
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Takavar executed in Karaj on October 30
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Vahdati and Khalil Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on October 30
OCTOBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamsollah Banani executed in Ahar on October 29
OCTOBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davood Behzadi executed in Esfarayen on October 28
672 executions in Iran in 2023
- OCTOBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man executed in "one of Tehran's prisons"
Over the past days
OCTOBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Hossein Dashtban executed in Tabriz on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Birjand on October 26
Abdolbasir Mohammadani (Rend), Mohammad Nabi Shahuzehi (Lojei), Mohammad Mirshah, Reza Shahraki and Omid Javini
OCTOBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hayatollah Eiduzehi executed in Kerman on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Seyed Rezaei executed in Qazvin on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Karaj on October 25
- OCTOBER 24, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Use of Nitrogen Hypoxia Could Endanger Spiritual Advisors and Prison Staff
Upcpming execution in Alabama
OCTOBER 24, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: TWO SOLDIERS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD FOR CIVILIAN MURDER
A firing squad on October 23, 2023 morning executed two Somali soldiers in the southern town of Baidoa.
- OCTOBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Karaj on October 24
628 executions in Iran in 2023
OCTOBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Man executed in Khoy on October 24
Identified only as A.M.
OCTOBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 23
Asghar Jafari, Majid Mousayi and Ali Kheirbin
OCTOBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khosro Naghiani executed in Karaj on October 22
- OCTOBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davoud Heidari executed in Karaj on October 22
OCTOBER 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 1 man executed in Isfahan on October 21
Davoud Jalali and an unidentified woman
- OCTOBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Ali Dil Baluch executed in Birjand on October 19
OCTOBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Kakavand and Fathollah Rashnu executed in Khorramabad on October 19
OCTOBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Rashidi Garavand executed in Aligudarz on October 19
OCTOBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad-Ali Vahidi executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on October 19
OCTOBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arman Rezazadeh executed in Rasht on October 19
- OCTOBER 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Heidari executed in Rasht on October 19
OCTOBER 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 10 men were executed in Karaj on October 18
Hojat Beg Rezaei, Shahab Shahbazi, Mohammad Behzadi + 7 Unk
- OCTOBER 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodabakhsh … executed in Zahedan on October 18
OCTOBER 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nazem Abayi and Baluch Ali Barzang executed in Isfahan on October 17
- OCTOBER 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - … Ketabi executed in Rasht on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on October 17
Sajad Moradi, Yaser Golzardian + Unk.
OCTOBER 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Karami executed in Gorgan on October 17