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 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 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Partowi executed in Kermanshah on November 7
NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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, 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
NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN 6 men executed in Karaj on November 1
Ehsan Haddad, Abbas Anarki, Kuchak Behrouz, Mohsen Abbasi, Yadalollah Farrokhi and Sadegh Tajik.
- OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Takavar executed in Karaj on October 30
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Vahdati and Khalil Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on October 30
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
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 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 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man executed in "one of Tehran's prisons"
Over the past days
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 PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Karaj on October 25
- 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 24, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Use of Nitrogen Hypoxia Could Endanger Spiritual Advisors and Prison Staff
Upcpming execution in Alabama