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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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 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 PENALTYIRAN - 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 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 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Dil Baluch executed in Birjand 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
- OCTOBER 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Ardabil on October 15
OCTOBER 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Asghar Cheraghifar (Cheraghi Far) executed in Zanjan on October 14
OCTOBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mohammadi executed in Rasht on October 12
OCTOBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Bahrehmand executed in Hamedan on October 11
OCTOBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three men executed in Qezel Hesar on October 11
Nazir Mohammad Tajik, Nour Mohammad Barbari, and Shahab Elhami
OCTOBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahab …executed in Qezel Hesar on October 11
(surname unknown)
OCTOBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Ali Maghami and Mehdi Shadab executed in Tabriz on October 11
OCTOBER 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Isfahan on October 10
OCTOBER 10, 2023TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Jedidiah Murphy, 48, White, was executed on Oct. 10
OCTOBER 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Alizadeh executed in Bam on October 10
OCTOBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Kerman on October 9
OCTOBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Isfahan on October 9
- OCTOBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrab Sintab executed in Karaj on October 8