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Female executions 2020 to
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Women continue to suffer the death penalty in the 21st century. The majority have been hanged or
beheaded, whilst others have been shot or executed by lethal injection. Two have suffered electrocution in America.
2024 case details.
Hajar Atabaki, aged 41, was hanged in in Qazvin Central Prison, Iran for drug offences on Saturday the 30th of January.
On Wednesday the 31st of January a man and his girlfriend were put to death, presumably by lethal injection, in Chongqing in China. Their names were Zhang Bo, the father, and Ye Chengchen, Zhang's girlfriend. They were convicted of the murder of his two children, a 2 year old girl and a 1 year old boy, whom they had thrown from the 15th floor of a high rise apartment window. The children from his previous marriage were seen by Ye as an obstacle to their relationship and she had pressured Zhang to kill them.
On the same day 27 year old Zahra Nazarian was hanged at the Sabzevar prison in Khorasan Razavi province, Iran for the murder of her sister’s husband four years ago.
Two women, Abeer bint Ali bin Dhafer Al-Amri, and Bayan bint Hafez Siddiq were beheaded in Riyadh Saudi Arabia on Sunday the 11th of February along with three men. They were a criminal gang who abducted, robbed and murdered Khaled bin Dalak and had committed other similar crimes, involving kidnapping and robbery.
On the 18th of March Yassin Zolfaqari and his wife, whose first has not been released, were hanged in the Central Prison of Tabriz in Iran for possessing 3 kilograms of crack cocaine.
2023 case details. (32
executions)
Two women have been executed up to the 14th of February 2023, both in Fardis prison in Karaj, Iran. Both were hanged for murder and their names were Nazifeh (family name not known) who was hanged for the murder of her husband and Fariba Hosseini who was executed for an unspecified murder.
On Sunday, the 26th of February, five prisoners, including two women whose identities and crimes are unknown, were hanged in Birjand prison in south Khorasan, Iran.
Lila Bamri was hanged for drug offences in Bandar Abbas prison in Iran on Monday, the 27th of February. No further details were given.
Nasrin Niazi was hanged in Urmia, Iran, together with five men on the 16th of March. It is thought that her crime was drug trafficking although this was not confirmed.
Maryam Najjar was arrested three years ago on charges of murdering her husband and was hanged with 1 man in Dastgerd prison in Iran on the 28th of March 2023.
On Sunday, the 30th of March, an unnamed woman was hanged in Central Prison of Zahedan, Iran, together with an unnamed male, both for murder.
On the same day 39 year old Madina Sabzevan was hanged in Birjand prison, Iran along with two men for drug offences whose names were Abdullah Zarouzhi (Zahrozai) and Mohammad Shibak.
Saudi Arabia beheaded Nada bint Ali bin Mohammed Abu Shaqara on the 16th of May for the murder of her mother, Sharifa bint Ahmed bin Ibrahim Maqari.
Yemeni born Shaabana Salem Yahya Said was beheaded in Saudi Arabia on the 25th of May for the murder her Saudi husband, Salem bin Ali bin Abdullah Issa.
35 year old Monireh Nourikia was hanged in Mashhad prison in Iran on the 28th of May, having been convicted of murder of her child (step daughter?) in June 2019.
At dawn on Sunday, the 2nd of July, a Baloch female prisoner named Afsaneh Shahiki, 50, was hanged in the central prison of Kerman.
Afshaneh Shahiki was arrested eight years ago in Bam City and later sentenced to death by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the charge of murdering her husband with a gun.
On Sunday, the 9th of July, the death sentences of 32-year-old Monireh Siyadat and Farziyeh Shokrollahi were carried out in Dastgerdi Prison in Isfahan, Iran. Monireh Siyadat was convicted of murdering her husband and Farziyeh Shokrollahi of premeditated murder, no other details being released.
A female prisoner
was executed in the Rajaei Shahr prison of Karaj in Iran on Wednesday the 12th
of July. Fateme Yusuf
Abadi was hanged for murder, but no details of the crime were released.
A former kindergarten teacher in central China was executed on Thursday the 14th of July for a murder committed four years ago. Wang Yun, 39, was found guilty of killing one child and injuring 24 others by poisoning their rice porridge with sodium nitrite. The execution, presumably by lethal injection, took place after Wang's unsuccessful appeal against her sentence, which was initially handed down by the Jiaozuo city intermediate people's Court in September 2020.
On Monday the 24th
of July two Saudi nationals were executed in Mecca for killing their parents
and siblings, the Kingdom’s Ministry of Interior said.
Abdulaziz bin Fahed bin Ghazayh al-Harethi and his sister Uhud bint Fahd bin Ghazai al-Harthi were sentenced to death after they were
convicted of killing their mother and their brothers, Abdulrahman and Abdullah,
by placing sleeping pills in their dinner.
They then shot the mother and Abdulrahman dead in their sleep the next
day and shot Abdullah as he was sitting in the house, the ministry said in a
statement published on its website.
After committing their crime, al-Harethi and his
sister then moved the bodies to a rest-house that belonged to them after which
they lured their father to the location and shot him. They then set the
rest-house on fire with the bodies inside by pouring gasoline and for
intentionally causing a gas leak, the ministry added.
45
year old Singaporean woman Saridewi Djamani was hanged at Changi prison
on Friday the 28th of July 2023,
becoming the first woman to be hanged in Singapore for nearly 20 years.
She had been convicted if trafficking a total of 1kg of drugs containing 30.72g
of pure heroin on the 17th of June 2016.
On Thursday the 10th of August 40 year old Ryqiyeh Abedini was hanged in Hamedan Central Prison in Iran for the murder of her husband in 2020.
27-year-old Mahboubeh Roshandel was hanged on the morning of Monday, September 4th, 2023, in Mashhad Central Prison in Iran, having been convicted of murdering her mother in-law.
On Thursday the 8th of September an unnamed woman was hanged in Qom prison Iran, for murder. No other details of her case have been released.
An unnamed woman was hanged in Central Prison of Isfahan, Iran for murder. The execution took place at dawn on Saturday, the 21st of October 2023. No further details of her case were given.
Maryam Forough-Manesh was hanged for premeditated murder of her husband in the Central Prison of Yasouj, Iran on Wednesday the 1st of November. No further details of her case were given.
46 year old Zarkhaton Mazarzehi was hanged in Kerman Prison, Iran on Tuesday the 14th of November for drug trafficking. She was arrested in 2017 while traveling on a bus to Shiraz with a package containing drugs.
An unnamed woman
was hanged in Lakan Prison of Rasht, Iran for murder. The execution took place at dawn on the 26th
of November 2023. No further details of
her case were given.
On Monday the 4th of December Saudi Arabia executed Huda bint Al-Humaidi bin Hamoud Al-Mutairi, a Saudi national. “She had killed her husband, Hassan bin Ayesh bin Marzouq Al-Mutairi, by stabbing him several times with a knife, which led to his death and the looting of sums of money from him”, according to a statement released by The Saudi Ministry of Interior. She was beheaded in Riyadh.
Tabatu Issa was beheaded in Saudi Arabia on the 10th of December for the murder of a Saudi female named Aisha bint Sulaiman bin Rashid al-Shaeifani by poisoning her drink with a chemical substance (acid).
Lao Rongzhi, age 49, was executed by lethal injection on Monday the 18th of December in Nanchang, East China's Jiangxi Province for her part in the murders of seven people, including a child, between 1996 and 1999. She had been on the run for nearly 20 years before finally being arrested in 2019. Her codefendant, and then boyfriend, Fa Ziying was executed in 1999.
30 year old Samira Sabzian Fard was hanged in the in Ghezelhesar prison in Iran on the 20th of December, for the intentional murder of her husband, by poisoning his juice, when she was 19, with the participation of two other people, including her sister, in Mallard city, Tehran province. Her sister, who was 14 years old at that time, was released after being arrested by paying a fine of 150 million tomans.
Linilini Akhtar was beheaded in Saudi Arabia on the 24th of December for the murder of a Saudi man named Awda bin Alyan bin Ali al-Shamri.
Nasim Namazi, a Turkish prisoner from Urmia, was executed by hanging in Urmia Central Prison in Iran on the 29th of December. The previous evening, the death sentences of three Kurdish prisoners connected to Nasim Namazi's case, Wafa Hanareh, Aram Omari Bardiani, and Rahman Parhazo, were carried out in. All four had previously been sentenced to death on charges of "espionage for Israel."
2022 case details.
On Saturday the 5th of
February 23 year old Khatoun Hamidi was hanged in the Central Prison of Qazvin
for the murder of her fiancé in 2017. She may have been under 18 at the time of
the crime.
On the 14th of March,
Hooman and his wife Shirin were hanged in Shiraz Central Prison for
murder. No other details were released.
On the 6th of May a woman whose family name is given as Shahoozhi was hanged for the murder of her husband in Zahedan prison, together with three men for drug offences.
Ms. Hayati was hanged in Shiraz Central Prison in Iran on the 22nd of May for the murder of her husband. She was hanged with one man, 32-year-old Abdolbari Rigi, who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
Laden Mulla Saeedi was executed on Wednesday, June 25, in Qarchak prison in Varamin, Iran for premeditated murder.
On Monday the 6th of June, a Ms. Gargij was hanged in Zahedan prison, Iran for the murder of her husband, one of twelve executions that day.
Robab Danaii was
hanged in Yazd prison in Iran on the 21st of July for murder. No other details have been released.
On the 27th of July, 31 year old Sahila Abedi was hanged in Sanandaj prison, Iran for the murder of her husband in
2014.
Faranak Beheshti was hanged in Urmia Central Prison, Iran on the 27th of July, also for the murder of her husband in 2017.
Sanobar Jalali, an Afghan woman, was executed in Gohardasht prison Iran, on the same day, for murdering her husband during a family fight.
At dawn on Sunday, the 20th of August, the death sentence of two prisoners, including an unnamed woman, were executed in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz, Iran for murder.
On Saturday the 10th of September a woman, whose name was
only given as M-Shehbakhsh, was hanged with four men
for premeditated murder Zahedan prison, Iran.
An Ethiopian maid named Fatemah Mohammed Assfaou was executed in Riyadh on the 2nd of October. She had killed a 12 year old girl, a Saudi citizen, named Nawal bint Said al-Bishi.
On the 27th of
October an unnamed woman was hanged in Boroujerd
Prison in Iran for the murder of her husband.
No other details were given.
Kuwait carried out seven hangings on Wednesday the 16th of November including
those of two women Rabab Adly Mostafa Shehata (Kuwaiti)
and Aisha Nemo Viso (Ethiopian) both of whom had been convicted
of premeditated murder.
On Saturday the 4th of December, Moloud Molazadeh was hanged for murdering her father-in-law in 2016. On Wednesday afternoon, she was transferred from Dolat Abad prison in Isfahan, Iran to Dastgerd prison for execution.
2021 case details.
Lisa Marie
Montgomery was executed under Federal Law at the Federal execution facility at
On the same
day
A female
and a male prisoner sentenced to qisas
(retribution-in-kind) for murder, were hanged at Ardabil Central Prison in
Eliza Aban Othu a 39-year-old South Sudanese woman was hanged on
Tuesday the 9th of February 2021 in
In 2019, a court found guilty of killing Teresa Aban Othu
the previous year. Eliza allegedly
quarrelled with Teresa over a matter relating to their children, in Haj Yousef.
A struggle ensued resulting in Teresa's death.
Zahra Ismaili who was transferred from Qarchak prison in Varamin to Rajai Shahr prison in Iran on the 16th of February for her execution on Wednesday the 17th of February. Zahra was 42 years old and the mother of two children. She had been arrested and sentenced to death for the murder of her husband by shooting him with his service pistol. She was hanged with six men, all for murder.
On Saturday the 27th of February
Three unnamed women were hanged together with 8 unnamed men,
all for murders, on the 2nd of March in
Maryam Karimi was hanged in
Rasht Central Prison,
Nafiseh Pakmehr, a resident of Mashhad from the village of Qaleh Nawabgheh, near Taybad in Khorasan Razavi province, Iran was hanged on Sunday the 14th of March in Taybad prison for the murder of her husband eight years ago.
At 5.00 a.m. on Thursday the 18th of March the Prisons
Authority of Egypt’s Ministry of Interior carried out the executions of six men
and three women inside the in
On Friday the 19th of March 39 year old Laazeth
Muhammad Salma was hanged at
Kobra Fatemi, 41, was hanged in Yazd Central Prison in
At dawn on Sunday, the 30th of May, Yousef Pirastavan and his wife, Shamsi, were hanged in Qazvin
Prison in
On Sunday the 27th of June, Ayman Zakaria Abdel Al-Rahman
was among a group of nine prisoners hanged at
On the 9th of September three unnamed women were hanged in
Rajai Shahr prison in
A woman, identified only as G. Q. was hanged with her
husband, A. B. in
Susan Rezaeipour was hanged in Qazvin Central Prison in Iran, at dawn on Wednesday, the 26th of October.
31 year old Susan had been forced into marriage by her family and her husband was an alcoholic. She was sentenced to death for premeditated murder of her husband, who was also her cousin. She had been in prison for 6 years while negotiations went on with her husband’s father who ultimately refused to pardon her. The murder took place after her husband passed out through drink, in their home.
On Tuesday the 23rd of December Siavash Ardashiri
and his wife whose first name was not given were hanged in Yasuj
prison in
41 year old Maryam Khakpour from
Kashan was hanged in Dastgerd Prison in
Three unnamed women were reportedly hanged on the 9th of
December in
On the 15th of December 42 year old Masoumeh Zarei was hanged for the murder of her husband in the prison of Amol prison. Masoumeh Zarei was released from the public ward the day before and spent the night before the execution of the sentence in the prison staff office with five prison guards due to lack of space in solitary confinement. (Prisoners usually spend one to three days in solitary before their hanging)
Masoumeh was handcuffed and taken out of the prison staff room at 6 am on Tuesday in an attempt to obtain the consent of the victim's family to a reprieve. She was last seen by other inmates at 7:30 am. She was finally executed at around 8 o'clock inside the Amol prison administration building. Execution of the sentence was in a place where there is traffic and was left hanging for about 20 minutes. Before the execution of the sentence, the prison authorities waited for about half an hour for a female police officer to execute the sentence, and they gave her sugar water three times due to excessive psychological pressure".
Fatemeh Aslani was hanged on Sunday the 19th of December in Dastgerd Prison in
2020 case details.
On the 9th of January 35 year old
Sara M. was hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad in
On Tuesday, the 14th of January, 29
year old Malihah Haji Hassani was hanged in Shiraz Central Prison in
Aisha Ahmed Omar Bahasin,
a Yemeni national was beheaded on Thursday the 30th of January, in the Jeddah
governorate of Makkah Al-Mukarramah region of
On
Wednesday the 4th of March, Najwa. T, together with her boyfriend, Ramy. P, and
another friend, Rafiq SAL were hanged in
32 year old Mehri was hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad, Iran on Sunday the 2nd of August for the murder by stabbing of her husband, Amir, in 2014. The motive for the stabbing was jealousy. Amir was a scrap dealer and Mehir worked with him. At the scrapyard another young woman asked him to go with her and this lead to a jealous outburst.
On
Tuesday the 18th of August, 38 year old Marzieh Ebrahimipour,
was hanged with four men in
Belqis
Farhan Qaid, age 34, was shot on Sunday morning the 6th of September, in a
public square in Al Basateen in the Dar Saad district
of Yemen. She had been convicted for her
part in the rape and murder of Muhammad Saeed Al-Baroudi, a 12 year old boy
from Al-Basateen who was dismembered after he was
killed.
The two male co-defendants, Wadah Refat and Mihamed Khaled were executed in the same square in February
2019. Her execution was postponed due to her being pregnant at the time of her
trial.
32
year old Mahtab Shafiei was hanged in
Amani
A., age 25, was hanged with her lover, Hasan M. H. in the Cairo Appeals Prison
in
On Sunday the 11th of October 33 year old Razieh was hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad, Iran, for the murder by suffocation of her two children, 8 year old Tahereh (f) and 4 year old son Alireza.)
40
year old Affifi Muhammad Al-Shafei was hanged on the
12th of October in
30
year old Amira L. was hanged in Zeinhom prison in
34
year old Heba M. was hanged in Qena prison in
On
Friday the 4th of December a 26 year old woman whose name was given as Z. M.
was hanged in Mashad prison
On Thursday the 10th of December Saudi Arabia executed Fadia bint Hassan bin Tawfiq Al-Qalaa (Saudi) and her accomplice, Sardar Abdullah Al-Mousa (Syrian male) in the city of Buraidah for the murder of Fadia’s husband, Ibrahim Al-Ghosn, who was head of the municipal council in Buraidah. Ibrahim Al-Ghosn was beaten to death in the marital home.
Zeinab Khodamradi, aged 33, was hanged on the 27th of December in Sanandaj prison for the murder by stabbing of her two children some five years ago. Apparently Zeinab had suffered from chronic depression during her last pregnancy.
General.
Most female
executions are for murder.
Women and the death
penalty.
Women account for
less than 1% of all executions carried out worldwide in recent years and there
is a marked reluctance to execute them in most countries. The penal codes of
most countries prohibit the execution of pregnant women, who are either
reprieved at once or, in theory, liable to be executed after they have given
birth. In practice, I can find no case where this has happened and all such
death sentences have been commuted.
Women tend not to commit the more heinous murders in the main and are more
likely to be convicted of family/domestic murders, which are often perceived as
less serious.
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