Executions in August 2020

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
Afghanistan
America (USA)	2
Bangladesh
Belarus
Botswana
Chad
China
Egypt
India
Iran	29
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Malaysia
Nigeria
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Somalia	2
Sudan
Taiwan
UAE
Vietnam
Yemen

31 men and 2 women were executed in August, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
02/08	Iran	B. D., F. A. and Hamed Amian	Hanging	Murder
02/08	Iran	Mehri (f)	Hanging	Murder
04/08	Iran	Abolfazl Bigzadeh and Rouhollah Sabzi	Hanging	Drugs
05/08	Iran	Ali Farajnia	Hanging	Drugs
05/08	Iran	Mostafa Salehi	Hanging	Riot/murder
05/08	Iran	Jafar Taybi	Hanging	Murder
07/08	Iran	Mehrzad Jalalvand Gholamreza Tahoneh and Ali Tahoneh (brothers)	Hanging	Murder
08/10	Iran	Keyvan Rezaghili	Hanging	Murder
11/10	Iran	Fayeq Ahmadi	Hanging	Murder
13/08	Iran	Mojtaba Tutunchi	Hanging	Murder
16/08	Iran	Hadi A. & Saeed Ramezani	Hanging	Murder
18/08	Iran	Arsalan Yassini (j)	Hanging	Murder
18/08	Somalia	2 unnamed men	Shooting	Rape
18/08	Iran	Ardeshir Bahadori, Ali Gholami Aghuyi, and Marzieh Ebrahimipour (f) + 2 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder
18/08	Iran	Ahmad Mehravar	Hanging	Drugs
09/08	Iran	Gholamreza Q.	Hanging	Murder
20/08	Iran	Hossein Moloudi, Rahim Piroozi & Saeed Ramezani	Hanging	Murder
22/08	Iran	Parviz	Hanging	Murder
26/08	America - Federal	Lezmond Mitchell	Injection	Murder
28/08	America - Federal	Keith Dwayne Nelson	Injection	Murder

(f) = female, (j) = juvenile, (p) = public

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