Executions in January 2023

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country

No of executions

Afghanistan

 

America (USA)

3

Bangladesh

2

Belarus

 

Botswana

 

Chad

 

China

 

Egypt

 

India

 

Iran

61

Iraq

 

Japan

 

Jordan

 

Kuwait

 

Myanmar

 

Nigeria

 

Palestine

 

Qatar

 

Saudi Arabia

 

Singapore

 

Somalia

 

South Sudan

 

Syria

 

Taiwan

 

UAE

 

Vietnam

 

Yemen

2

68 men and 1 woman were executed in January, their details are as under. 

Date

Country

Name

Method

Crime

02/01

Iran

Ahmad Bachagchi and Azizbeg Hosseini

Hanging

Drugs

03/01

America - Missouri

Scott (Amber) McLaughlin (t)

Injection

Murder

04/01

Iran

Sadalah Karimi Serini and Farhad (Farah) Karimi

Hanging

Murder

04/01

Iran

Rasul Mohammadi and
1 unnamed man

Hanging

Drugs

05/01

Iran

Abulfazl Helvai 

Hanging

Murder

05/01

Iran

Mehdi Asgari and
Rostam Abbaszadeh

Hanging

Drugs

07/01

Iran

Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

Hanging

Murder (Protests)

08/01

Iran

Nazifeh (f)

Hanging

Murder

08/01

Iran

Mohammed Rasul Shah Bakhsh and Akhtar Mohammad

Hanging

Drugs

08/01

Iran

Majid Sedaghat

Hanging

Murder

08/01

Bangladesh

Saiful Islam Rafique

Hanging

Rape & robbery

09/01

Iran

Khaliq Khizrzadeh
Nazir Sarkh Kaman

Hanging

Drugs

10/01

Iran

Peyman Arab Gicheh and Rashid Lundpour Khodri

Hanging

Drugs

10/01

Iran

Milad Ashob

Hanging

Murder

10/01

Iran

Reza Haji

Hanging

Armed robbery

10/01

America - Texas

Robert Fratta

Injection

Murder

11/01

Iran

Shahram Mortazavi

Hanging

Murder

12/01

America - Oklahoma

Scott James Eizember

Injection

Murder

12/01

Iran

Keyvan Amini Tavakol, Azad Dadvand, Ali Geravand & 2 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

12/01

Iran

Maher Iloli &
Ali Abbaszadeh

Hanging

Murder

14/01

Iran

Alireza Akbari

Hanging

Espionage

14/01

Iran

Akbar Shah Bakhsh

Hanging

Drugs

16/01

Iran

Mirajan Mohammadi,
Ali Jalilvand &
Akbar Ahmadi

Hanging

Drugs

18/01

Iran

Ghadrat Zibram and
Omid Karimi

Hanging

Murder

18/01

Yemen

Fouad Hussein Hussein Solih

Shooting (p)

Murder and rape

19/01

Iran

Sharaf Khan Akbari, Kamel Dodkanlu and
Seyed Farhad Hosseini

Hanging

Drugs

22/01

Yemen

Hassan Muhammad Al-Bunjabi

Shooting (p)

Murder

22/01

Bangladesh

Shukkur Ali

Hanging

Murder

23/01

Iran

Ahmad Zali Tabar, Saman Nabi Grossi, Abolfazl Barkhanejad, Sabina Ismailzadeh and Omid Karamali

Hanging

Drugs

25/01

Iran

Omid Azni, Behnam and
1 unnamed man

Hanging

Drugs

25/01

Iran

Hamid Heydari

Hanging

Murder

25/01

Iran

Reza Aghale

Hanging

Murder

26/01

Iran

Reza Shokri, Omid Shokri, Majid Shah Mohammadi and Borjali Karami

Hanging

Drugs

30/01

Iran

Rasul Safarzaei, Rasul Safarzaei, Ismail Kechlanlu and
1 unnamed man

Hanging

Drugs

30/01

Iran

Ali Elah Vardi and
Farhang Zakaei and
1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

30/01

Iran

Hasan Javanroudian

Hanging

Drugs

31/01

Iran

Mansour Yusuf Zahi

Hanging

Drugs

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

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