Executions in May 2023

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country

No of executions

Afghanistan

 

America (USA)

1

Bangladesh

 

Belarus

 

Botswana

 

Chad

 

China

3

Egypt

 

India

 

Iran

142

Iraq

 

Japan

 

Jordan

 

Kuwait

 

Myanmar

 

Nigeria

 

Palestine

 

Qatar

 

Saudi Arabia

22

Singapore

1

Somalia

2

South Sudan

 

Syria

 

Taiwan

 

UAE

 

Vietnam

 

Yemen

3

170 men and 4 women were executed in May, their details are as under. 

Date

Country

Name

Method

Crime

01/05

Iran

Aminullah Karimi Qoljaei

Hanging

Drugs

02/05

Iran

Mousa and Eshan Gergij &
Mohammad Malek Dadzahi

Hanging

Drugs

02/05

Saudi Arabia

Manhal bin Abdullah Al Rabh

Beheading (p)

Terrorism

03/05

Iran

Saeed Ghatali,
Hossein Ghol, Hanif Khosravi and
4 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

03/05

Iran

Shahin Firouzkouhi, Abdolhossein Emamizadeh and
Ali Daftari 

Hanging

Drugs

03/05

Iran

Hassan Zarei and Lal Mohammad Shirzayi Barahouyi

Hanging

Drugs

03/05

Saudi Arabia

Hamed bin Mohsen bin Mohammed al-Otaibi

Beheading (p)

Murder

03/05

America - Florida

Darryl Barwick

Injection

04/05

Yemen

MTF

Shooting

Murder

04/05

Iran

Hamed Mousavi

Hanging

Murder

04/05

Iran

Saboor Shah-Bakhsh, Amir Rameshk, Abdolbasir Bazhm + 2 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

04/05

Iran

Nour-Ahmad Zavarzahi, Mohammad Ali Bani Ebrahimi, Mehdi Farrokhi and Habibullah Faqirdadzehi

Hanging

Drugs

04/05

Iran

Jaber Aminifar, Abdullah Zarouzehi, Mohammad Shibak, Edris Gorgij and Madineh Sabzevan

Hanging

Drugs

05/05

Iran

Asghar Samiei, Mehdi Teimouri, Tahmaseb Kavousi, Davod Mahmoudyar and Behzad Hanifi

Hanging

Drugs

05/06

Iran

Habib Kaabi

Hanging

Corruption on earth

05/06

Iran

Salahuddin Majidi, Faramarz Shakhshi and Abdullah Khan Mohammadi

Hanging

Drugs

06/05

Saudi Arabia

Walid Abdo Muhammad Salman and Yasser Muhammad Rashid Al-Bakali

Beheading (p)

Murder

07/05

China

Hong Qiao

Injection

Murder

08/05

Iran

Yousef Mehrad and Seyed Sadrullah Fazli Zare

Hanging

Blasphemy

08/05

Iran

Yaser Rakhshani, A. A. and 1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

08/05

Iran

Mohammad Ahmadi, Hossein Shahrouzi and Yunus Rigi Rakhshani

Hanging

Drugs

08/05

Saudi Arabia

Abdulnasser bin Hussein bin Rihan al-Zahrani

Beheading (p)

Murder

09/05

Saudi Arabia

Anwar bin Jaafar bin Mahdi al-Alawi

Beheading (p)

Terrorism

09/05

Iran

Najmedin Eshaghzehi

Hanging

Drugs

10/05

Iran

3 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

10/05

Iran

Hossein Panjak, Abdolhossein Emami Moghadam and
Babak Aghaei

Hanging

Drugs

10/05

Iran

3 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder 2 & rape 1

10/05

Iran

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

10/05

Iran

Saber Payamian

Hanging

Murder

10/05

Saudi Arabia

Riyadh bin Radha bin Abdulqadr Jarah

Beheading (p)

Burglary and rape

11/05

Saudi Arabia

Othman Ali Muhammad Shabir

Beheading (p)

Murder

11/05

Iran

Hossein Shabanzadeh

Hanging

Murder

12/05

Iran

Hossein Rigi

Hanging

Drugs

13/05

Iran

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

13/05

Iran

Kambiz Davrpanah and Amrullah (Shamal) Adish + 4 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

13/05

Saudi Arabia

Ali bin Ahmed bin Ali Al-Moallem

Beheading (p)

Murder

14/05

Iran

Saeed Arjumandi and Kayumars Menbari

Hanging

Murder

14/05

Iran

Abdolrahman Mousazehi, Jalal Rigi + 3 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

14/05

Saudi Arabia

Mohammed bin Khaled bin Alsadi al-Subaiei

Beheading (p)

Murder

15/05

Iran

M. A.

Hanging

Murder

15/05

Iran

Mohammad Paydar and Peyman Akbari-Birgan.

Hanging

Drugs

15/05

Saudi Arabia

Yasser bin Mohammed al-Asmari 

Beheading (p)

Terrorism

16/05

Iran

Sha’aban Yousefi

Hanging

Murder

16/05

Iran

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

16/05

Saudi Arabia

Nada bint Ali bin Mohammed Abu Shaqara (f)

Beheading (p)

Murder

17/05

Saudi Arabia

Khalifa bin Salem bin Mohammed al-Aaqid

Beheading (p)

Murder

17/05

Singapore

Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff

Hanging

Drugs

17/05

Iran

2 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

18/05

Iran

Mustafa Salehi, Firouz Yarinejad Garavand,
Ali Khorramshah Amrai and 2 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

18/05

Iran

Nader Rigi

Hanging

Drugs

18/05

Iran

Mustafa Wafaei,
Farhad Wafaei, and Jamshid Karimi

Hanging

Murder

18/05

Iran

Barzo Chaghazardi and Saeed Najafi

Hanging

Murder

18/05

Iran

Hossein Porsheikh, Omid Janabadi, Nabiullah Zaboli and 1 unnamed man

Hanging

Drugs

18/05

Somalia

Adan Ali Abdi and Mohamed Geedow Nurow

Shooting

Murder

19/05

Iran

Majid Kazemi, Saleh Marhashmi and Saeed Al-Yaqoubi

Hanging

Terrorism (protestors)

19/05

Iran

Kazem Ghafrankhah

Hanging

Murder

19/05

Iran

Yaghoub Hassani, Mazhar Davari and Ali Mehrdel

Hanging

Drugs

20/05

Iran

Shahrouz Sokhanvari

Hanging

Human trafficking

20/05

Iran

Saeed Gravand,
Shahab Mansouri Nesab, Shahram Sharqi and Samad Gravand

Hanging

Drugs

20/05

Iran

Asif Shahbakhsh

Hanging

Murder

22/05

Saudi Arabia

Hassan bin Issa Al Muhanna, Haider bin Hassan Mowais, and Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Jaafar Amoys

Beheading (p)

Terrorism

23/05

Iran

Saeed Najafi and
Barzo Chaghazardi

Hanging

Murder

23/05

Saudi Arabia

Ahmed bin Ali bin Maatouq Al Badr 

Beheading (p)

Terrorism & espionage

23/05

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Drugs

23/05

Iran

Saeed Mohammadi and
1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

23/05

China

Ni Duqun, Wang Xiaoshan and Sun Baochang

Injection

Rape

24/05

Iran

Nader Alizahi

Hanging

Drugs

24/05

Saudi Arabia

Alain Ghizun Firnan

Beheading (p)

Murder

25/05

Iran

Ali Piri and Saeed Mohammadifar

Hanging

Murder

25/05

Iran

Suleiman Salamat, aka “Amir Mahdi”

Hanging (p)

Rape

25/05

Iran

Majid Jafari and Ali Tabib

Hanging

Drugs

25/05

Saudi Arabia

Shaabana Salem Yahya Said (f)

Beheading (p)

Murder

25/05

Yemen

Omar Al-Sharabi and Nasser Musweet

Shooting

Murder

25/05

Iran

Mohammad Chaina, Mehdi Salari, Majid Jafari, Ali Tayyab, Kaderbakhsh Dehani, and Abdul Rasool Jamshid (6 men)

Hanging

Drugs

25/05

Iran

Mohammad & Hamidreza

Hanging

Murder

26/05

Iran

Shaaban Yousefi and (unknown first name) Bezi

Hanging

Murder

27/05

Iran

Mohammad Amin Valinia,
Hossein Soltanian,
and Noorullah Timuri

Hanging

Murder

27/05

Iran

Abdullah Tutazahi

Hanging

Drugs

28/05

Iran

Monireh Nourikia (f)
Abdul Rahman Mozafari 

Hanging

Murder

29/05

Saudi Arabia

Jaafar Sultan and
Sadiq Thamer

Beheading (p)

Terrorism

30/05

Iran

Ezzat Ali Sabzi and
Mohammad Kazemi

Hanging

Drugs

31/05

Iran

Hasan Nurollahi and Hossein Roosta

Hanging

Murder

31/05

Saudi Arabia

Taha bin Mohammed Zakariya bin Aaref Ali Mulawi

Beheading (p)

Murder

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

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