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Female hangings worldwide 1988 - date. |
This is a
listing of the 70 reported and confirmed female hangings during the
period September 1988 to January 2008. Fifty three of these women died for murder,
11 for drug offences, 2 for prostitution, 1 for brothel keeping and 1 for
“moral corruption”. The crimes of the
other two are not known.
There were no accurate details for
There have almost certainly been further, unreported hangings in
No details of names/ages were given for the 7 women hanged in
The “long drop” method of hanging is currently used by
|
Name |
Age |
Country |
Crime |
Date of execution/Country of origin, where different from country of execution/Remarks |
|
Alice Norban Barissi and |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Catherine Tan Mui
Choo and |
34 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Sandra Smith (coloured) |
25 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Unnamed women |
- |
|
Drugs |
|
|
Hau Tsui Ling |
32 |
Malaysia |
Drugs |
|
|
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 |
|
25 |
Singapore |
Drugs |
06/01/95 (Hong Kong Macau) |
|
|
42 |
Singapore |
Murder |
17/03/95 (Philippines) |
|
|
Tong Ching-man |
24 |
Singapore |
Drugs |
21/04/95 (Hong Kong) Both 18 at time of crime. |
|
Unknown |
- |
Iran |
Drugs |
|
|
Navarat Maykha |
32 |
|
Drugs |
|
|
Teo Kim Hong |
36 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Amira Saleem & |
31 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Nobuko Hidaka |
51 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Raya Musa |
35 |
|
Murder |
|
|
5 unnamed women |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Rasha & Abeer Ibrahim (sisters) |
19/ |
|
Murder |
|
|
Gerardine Andrew |
36 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Manal Abd al-Qabel |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Masoumeh Fathi |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Alieh Moradi |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Saleh Mansour Hashem |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Julaiha Begum Maniam |
52 |
|
Murder |
|
|
2 unnamed women |
- |
|
Prostitution |
|
|
Fariba Tajiani Emamqoli |
20's |
|
Drugs |
|
|
Mariette Bosch (white) |
50 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Qadeer Kaleeja |
24 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Parvin Mirzaei |
35 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Jamileh Assadpour |
37 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Saeedeh Qassempour Malayeri |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
44 |
|
Murder |
|
|
|
Ibtisam Ahmad |
34 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Nasrin C. |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Unnamed |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Zahra Baghshirin & Farahnaz Yuly |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Zinat al-Sadat |
34 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Unnamed woman |
- |
|
Brothel keeping |
|
|
Ibtisam Hussein |
24 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Yen May Woen |
37 |
|
Drugs |
|
|
Diba Zomorodian |
- |
|
- |
|
|
Monireh Ghasempour |
- |
|
- |
|
|
Ateqeh Rajabi (also given as Atefeh Rajabi) |
16 |
|
Moral/sex crimes |
|
|
Roya |
28 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Akram N. |
20 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Raheleh |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Farzaneh Sadeqi |
- |
|
Murder |
03/05/06 (hanged in public) |
|
Mahboubeh M. |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Unnamed woman |
- |
|
Murder? |
|
|
Houriyeh |
29 |
|
Murder |
|
|
Fakhteh C |
30 |
|
Murder |
17/10/07 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison
for the murder of her employer) |
|
Zahra N |
- |
|
Murder |
|
|
Raheleh Zamani |
27 |
|
Murder |
|
See also Female executions 1990 -
2008 for a listing of
all female executions during this period.