Executions in June 2012

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country

No of executions

Afghanistan

 

America (USA)

5

Bangladesh

 

Belarus

 

Botswana

 

China

6

Dubai

 

Egypt

 

Iran

27

Iraq

1

Japan

 

Jordan

 

Kuwait

 

Libya

 

Malaysia

 

North Korea

 

Palestine

 

Saudi Arabia

16

Singapore

 

Somalia

 

Taiwan

 

Yemen

 

54 men and 1 woman were executed in June, their details are as under.

Date

Country

Name

Method

Crime

05/06

America - Mississippi

Henry "Curtis" Jackson Jr.

Injection

Murder

06/06

Saudi Arabia

Hussein Al-Awfi

Beheading (p)

Murder

07/06

Iraq

Abed Hamid Hmoud

Hanging

Genocide

07/06

Iran

Abbas Z, Aref A, Abolqasem A, Farhang N and Ali Akbar M..

Hanging (p)

Drugs

07/06

Saudi Arabia

Zohur Hussein Mohammed Sadeq

Beheading (p)

Drugs

09/06

Iran

Mohammad-Hasani Lotak and Saeid Baluch Shah Bakhsh

Hanging

Kidnapping & drugs

10/06

Saudi Arabia

Ahmed bin Ali Hamdi

Beheading (p)

Drugs

10/06

China

Zeng Jie

Injection (?)

Murder

11/06

Iran

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

11/06

Iran

Mehdi Gohari, Majid Gohari, Reza Fakhri Raieni, Sadeq Yousefi Fard, Mohammad Rasol Pour, and Said Moini

Hanging (p)

Drugs

12/06

Saudi Arabia

Massud al-Dossari,
Daij al-Dossari &
Ahmed Balji Oghlu

Beheading (p)

Drugs

12/06

America - Idaho

Richard Albert Leavitt

Injection

Murder

12/06

America - Mississippi

Jan Michael Brawner

Injection

Murder

13/06

Iran

Jomeh R.

Hanging (p)

Drugs

18/06

Iran

Abdul Rahman Heidari, Taha Heidari, Ali Sharifi and Jamsheed Heidari

Hanging

Murder

19/06

Saudi Arabia

Mohammed bin Nafe and Jamalat bint Nafe (f)
Ali bin Mohammed Al Qahtani &
Muree bin Ali Al Asiri

Beheading (p)



Murder

Sorcery & witchcraft

20/06

Iran

Iman Amani, Hashem; Farshid Aliari, Behzad Tajik, & Mohammad Aikahi

Hanging (p)

Rape

20/06

America - Mississippi

Gary Carl Simmons Jr.

Injection

Murder

21/06

Iran

Akbar

Hanging (p)

Murder

25/06

Saudi Arabia

Musfer bin Atallah Al Jaeed

Beheading (p)

Murder

25/06

China

Chen Tianlu, Xu Futai and Wang Zhenzong +
1 unnamed man

Injection (?)

Drugs

26/06

China

2 unnamed men

Injection (?)

Drugs

26/06

Saudi Arabia

Khaled bin Saeed al-Asmari, Hussein bin Ahmad Shweikhat, Abdel Aziz bin Hasan al-Maatouq and Hussein bin Ibrahim al-Maatouq (4 men)

Beheading (p)

Murder

26/06

Saudi Arabia

William Hatoum

Beheading (p)

Drugs

27/06

Saudi Arabia

Mohammed bin Ahmad al-Jubeiri

Beheading (p)

Kidnap and rape

27/06

America - Arizona

Samuel Villegas Lopez

Injection

Murder

28/06

Iran

Ali +
unnamed man

Hanging (p)

Rape
Drugs

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

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