Female hangings worldwide 1988 - date.

This is a listing of the reported and confirmed female hangings worldwide during the period September 1988 to December 2011. Seventy four of these women died for murder, 17 for drug offences, two for prostitution, one for terrorism, one for brothel keeping and one for “moral corruption”. The crimes of the other four were not specified.
There were no accurate details for Iraq although it is known that a large number of women were hanged there during the reign of Saddam Hussein. One woman was hanged there on 06/09/06 and it was reported that in total seven women have been executed since 2005, four of them in 2009. Three women were confirmed as having been hanged in Iraq during 2011 and a further two in January 2012, but their names and crime details were not released.
There have almost certainly been further, unreported hangings in Egypt, Iran and Singapore. According to government figures released in 2005, Malaysia hanged at least five women between 1981 and 2001, although details were only released in three cases.
No details of names/ages were given for the seven women hanged in South Korea.
Iran uses the short drop style of hanging and may also carry out the execution in public usually by suspension from a truck crane. It is possible that Jordan also uses the short drop method.
The “long drop” method of hanging is currently used by Botswana, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Malaysia & Singapore and was used in South Korea and South Africa.

Name	Age	Country	Crime	Date of execution/Country of origin, where different from country of execution/Remarks
Alice Norban Barissi and Farida Taher Sheeh	-	Kuwait	Murder	11/09/88 (Indian)
Catherine Tan Mui Choo and Hoe Kah Hong	34 33	Singapore	Murder	25/11/88 Hanged with Adrian Lim, Tan was his wife, and Hoe his girlfriend
Sandra Smith (coloured)	25	South Africa	Murder	02/06/89 Last female execution in South Africa
Unnamed women	-	Iran	Drugs	08/10/89 hanged with 9 men in Qasr prison in Tehran.
Hau Tsui Ling	32	Malaysia	Drugs	30/05/90 (Hong Kong). Hanged beside her boyfriend, Chow Sing, at Kajang prison.
Itaf Sulayman Ahmad	-	Jordan	Murder	26/03/90
Zeinab Mohamed Ahmed	-	Egypt	Murder	18/09/91
2 unnamed women	-	South Korea	Murder	18/12/91
Tamathil S.	-	Jordan	Murder	18/11/93
Cheuk Mei-mei	29	Singapore	Drugs	03/03/94 (1st for drugs) (Hong Kong)
Tan Bee Lee	-	Malaysia	Drugs	29/07/94
Elke Tsang Kai Mong	-	Singapore	Murder	16/12/94
Angel Mou Pui- Peng	25	Singapore	Drugs	06/01/95 (Hong Kong Macau)
Flor Contemplacion	42	Singapore	Murder	17/03/95 (Philippines)
Tong Ching-man Poon Yuen-chung	24 22	Singapore	Drugs	21/04/95 (Hong Kong) Both 18 at time of crime.
Unknown	-	Iran	Drugs	04/01/96
Navarat Maykha	32	Singapore	Drugs	28/09/96 (Thai)
Teo Kim Hong	36	Singapore	Murder	06/09/96
Amira Saleem & Eidah Hussein	31 35	Jordan	Murder	25/06/97 (Amira was Syrian) For the murder of Eidah's husband.
Nobuko Hidaka	51	Japan	Murder	02/08/97
Raya Musa	35	Jordan	Murder	28/08/97
5 unnamed women	-	S. Korea	Murder	30/12/97
Rasha & Abeer Ibrahim (sisters)	19/ 24	Jordan	Murder	03/12/98 (Egyptian)
Gerardine Andrew	36	Singapore	Murder	26/02/99
Manal Abd al-Qabel	-	Egypt	Murder	08/05/99
Masoumeh Fathi	-	Iran	Murder	26/01/00
Alieh Moradi	-	Iran	Murder	26/01/00
Saleh Mansour Hashem	-	Egypt	Murder	10/09/00
Julaiha Begum Maniam	52	Singapore	Murder	16/02/01
2 unnamed women	-	Afghanistan	Prostitution	23/02/01 First for this offence. Hanged in public.
Fariba Tajiani Emamqoli	20's	Iran	Drugs	19/03/01 Hanged in public.
Mariette Bosch (white)	50	Botswana	Murder	31/03/01 (South African)
Qadeer Kaleeja	24	Kuwait	Murder	17/06/01 (Indian)
Parvin Mirzaei	35	Iran	Murder	03/07/01
Jamileh Assadpour	37	Iran	Murder	12/09/01
Saeedeh Qassempour Malayeri	-	Iran	Murder	18/09/01
Mona Fandey	44	Malaysia	Murder	02/11/01
Ibtisam Ahmad	34	Jordan	Murder	12/05/02 (hanged with her lover)
Nasrin C.	-	Iran	Murder	08/10/02
Unnamed	-	Iran	Murder	16/10/02
Zahra Baghshirin & Farahnaz Yuly	-	Iran	Murder	29/12/02 (hanged in public in the city of Gachsaran)
Zinat al-Sadat	34	Iran	Murder	08/10/03
Unnamed woman	-	Iran	Brothel keeping	25/01/04
Ibtisam Hussein	24	Jordan	Murder	01/03/04 (hanged twice as rope broke)
Yen May Woen	37	Singapore	Drugs	19/03/04 (Chinese national)
Diba Zomorodian	-	Iran	-	29/06/04 (hanged in public in Qazvin)
Monireh Ghasempour	-	Iran	-	11/07/04 (hanged in public in Tehran)
Ateqeh Rajabi (also given as Atefeh Rajabi)	16	Iran	Moral/sex crimes	15/08/04 (Age given as 22 in court) Hanged in public for having sex outside marriage.
Roya	28	Iran	Murder	06/07/05 (hanged in private in a prison at Isfahan with her temporary husband, Mohammed)
Akram N.	20	Iran	Murder	07/12/05 (hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirevan for the murder of Maryam A. (female) in 2001)
Raheleh	-	Iran	Murder	18/01/06 (hanged with her husband, Babak in Evin prison, Tehran.)
Farzaneh Sadeqi	-	Iran	Murder	03/05/06 (hanged in public)
Mahboubeh M.	-	Iran	Murder	21/05/06 (hanged with her male accomplice Abbass H. for the murder of her husband)
Unnamed woman	-	Iraq	Murder?	06/09/06 (1 of 27 people hanged on same day at Abu Ghraib prison Baghdad.)
Houriyeh	29	Iran	Murder	14/07/07 (hanged in public with 2 male accomplices for the murder of her husband and in-laws)
Fakhteh C	30	Iran	Murder	17/10/07 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her employer)
Zahra N	-	Iran	Murder	19/12/07 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)
Rahele Zamani	27	Iran	Murder	02/01/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)
Shabnam Setayesh	34	Iran	Murder	27/08/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)
Fatemeh Haqiqat-Pajuh	38	Iran	Murder	26/11/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)
Tayyabeh	30’s	Iran	Murder	23/12/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her step daughter)
Masoumeh Ghale Jahi	33	Iran	Murder	29/01/2009 (hanged in Rafsanjan for murdering her husband)
Delara Darabi	23	Iran	Murder	02/05/09 (hanged in Rasht Central Prison for the murder of a relative)
Zeynab Nazarzadeh	28	Iran	Murder	06/05/09 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)
Azita	30	Iran	Drugs	13/05/09 (hanged with male co-defendant in Qazvin prison)
Afsaneh	29	Iran	Murder	20/05/09 (hanged in Shiraz for the murder of her husband with 3 men)
Unnamed woman	-	Iran	Murder	15/07/09 (hanged in Qazvin for the murder of her father in law)
Jamileh	25	Iran	Murder	29/07/09 (hanged in Shiraz for the murder of her husband with a man)
Unnamed woman	-	Iran	Murder	24/09/09 (hanged in Sarakhs for the murder of her husband)
Khadijeh J. and Fouzieh J		Iran	Drugs	06/10 (hanged in Ahvaz with one man)
Soheila Ghadiri	27	Iran	Murder	20/10/09 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her baby)
Beygum P.	-	Iran	Drugs	16/11/09 (hanged with two men in the central city of Esfahan)
Jihan Mohammed Ali	-	Egypt	Murder	10/03/10 (hanged with male co-defendant for the murder of her husband in 2004)
Shirin Alamhouli	28	Iran	Terrorism	09/05/10 (hanged with four men in Tehran’s Evin prison for planting a bomb)
Unnamed woman	-	Iran	Drugs	10/10/10 (hanged with 3 men in Zanjan)
Shahla Jahed	40	Iran	Murder	01/12/10 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her footballer boyfriend’s wife in 2002)
Mahin Qadiri	-	Iran	Murder	19/12/10 (hanged in Quazvin for multiple murder of five women)
Zahra Bahrami	46	Iran	Drugs	28/01/11 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison)
Adiva Mirza Soleyman Kalimia	54	Iran	Unknown	14/03/11 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison with her husband)
Unnamed woman	-	Iran	Unknown	14/03/11 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison)
Two unnamed women		Sudan	Child murder	13/05/11 (hanged in Khartoum)
Begom N.	-	Iran	Drugs	20/07/11 (hanged in Rafsanjan with one man)
Unnamed woman	-	Iraq	Terrorism	17/11/2011 (one of 11 executions this day, all for terrorist offences)
Unnamed woman	-	Iran	Drugs	29/11/11 (hanged with 5 men)
Nahid A.	-	Iran	Drugs	24/12/11 (hanged at Oroumieh with 6 men)

See also Female executions 1990 - 2010 for a listing of all known female executions during this period.

Back to Contents Page