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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AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Gorgij executed in Birjand on August 13
AUGUST 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cheraghali Bamri executed in Zahedan on August 12
AUGUST 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Roghieh Abedini, executed in Hamedan on August 12
217 women executed in Iran since 2007
AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Karimdadzehi and Hamid Garkhil executed Mashhad on August 10
489 executions in 2023
AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Rahimihedayat executed in Hamedan on August 10
AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Barahouyi and Ahmad Narouyi executed in Mashhad on August 10
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Khazaei and Ahad Hashemi executed in Hamedan on August 9
AUGUST 9, 2023LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana - Governor Edwards Directs Board to Consider Death Row Clemency Petitions
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asadollah Arjomand (Arjmand) executed in Yasuj on August 9
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Marand on August 9
Identities not disclosed
AUGUST 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Nasirian and Hassan Ali Shakib executed in Shiraz on August 8
AUGUST 7, 2023Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYGAZA: 7 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ‘COLLABORATION’ WITH ISRAEL
A military court in the Gaza Strip on August 6, 2023 sentenced seven people to death by hanging for “collaboration” with Israel, the coastal enclave’s Hamas-run interior ministry said.
AUGUST 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Ghafar Shahiki + Unk executed in Kerman on August 7
AUGUST 6, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: S. KOREAN DRUG OFFENDER EXECUTED, FIRST IN 9 YEARS
China on August 4, 2023 executed a South Korean man who was sentenced to death for selling a large amount of drugs, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jabar Moslemi executed in Qazvin on August 6
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IRAN - Ali Eslami executed in Nishapur on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Kazemi + Unk executed in Arak on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Hashemi executed in Karaj on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on August 6
Amir Jahangiri, Javad Bazgari, Sajjad Nazari and Mohsen Sharafi (Sharfi)
AUGUST 4, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. James Phillip Barnes, 61, White, was executed
On August 4
AUGUST 3, 2023SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED OVER DRUGS IN THIRD HANGING IN WEEK
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city state’s fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on August 3, 2023.
AUGUST 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on August 2
Mohammad Javad Akbari, Sharif Akbari and Kianoush Teymouri
AUGUST 1, 2023MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Johnny Johnson, 45, White, was executed
On August 1, 2023
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Baboli Bahmai executed in Ahvaz on August 1
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Badrouzeh executed in Birjand on August 1
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on August 1
Hossein Gomashadzehi, Yousef Kalbali + Unk
AUGUST 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ruhollah Azizi executed in Arak on August 1
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IRAN - Massoud Eshaghzehi executed in Zabol on August 1
AUGUST 1, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH HANGS TWO CONVICTS IN 2006 MURDER OF RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY’S PROF TAHER
The Rajshahi Central Jail authorities on July 27, 2023 hanged two death row convicts in the 2006 murder of Professor S Taher Ahmed, a teacher of Rajshahi University’s geology and mining department.