Executions in August 2018

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
Afghanistan
America (USA)	2
Bangladesh
Belarus
Botswana
Chad
China
Egypt	5
Indonesia
Iran	33
Iraq	6
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Malaysia
Nigeria
Pakistan
Palestine (Gaza)
Saudi Arabia	7
Singapore
Somalia
Sudan	1
Taiwan	1
UAE
Vietnam
Yemen	4

59 men were executed in August, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
01/08	Iran	3 unnamed men	Hanging	Armed robbery
01/08	Saudi Arabia	Salem bin Radhi bin Salem al-Omrani	Beheading (p)	Drugs
01/08	Iran	6 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder
02/08	Saudi Arabia	Bir Zada Bal Zada	Beheading (p)	Drugs
02/08	Iran	Miran Baluchi	Hanging	Murder
05/08	Yemen	Hafeez Mohammed Ahmed Al-Nakhai	Shooting	Murder
06/08	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed bin Ibrahim bin Nasser al-Farhan	Beheading (p)	Murder
08/08	Yemen	Abdul Jalil al-Ashhab, Mohammed al-'Uqri and Ghaleb al-Rashdi	Shooting (p)	Child rape & murder
08/08	Saudi Arabia	Salem bin Radhi bin Salem al-Omrani	Beheading (p)	Drugs
08/08	Saudi Arabia	Elias Abulkalaam Jamaleddeen	Beheading (p)	Murder
08/08	Iran	3 unnamed men	Hanging	Rape
08/08	Iran	Amir Ali Kalivand, Mohammad Abdi and 1 unnamed man	Hanging	Murder
08/08	Iran	Eyvaz Bidast	Hanging	Drugs
08/08	Saudi Arabia	Elias Abulkalam Jamaleddeen	Beheading (p)	Murder
09/08	Sudan	1 unnamed man	Hanging	Murder
09/08	America - Tennessee	Billy Ray Irick	Injection	Murder
13/08	Iran	Muslim Miri	Hanging	Murder
13/08	Saudi Arabia	Sael bin Sharaf bin Abdullah al-Harthi	Beheading (p)	Murder
14/08	America - Nebraska	Carey Dean Moore	Injection	Murder
15/08	Saudi Arabia	Turki bin Mohammed bin Sari al-Qahtani	Beheading (p)	Murder
15/08	Iraq	6 unnamed men	Hanging	Terrorism
15/08	Iran	Milad Zia	Hanging	Murder
15/08	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah bin Faraj bin Hadi al-Qahtani and Turki bin Mohammed bin Sari al-Qahtani	Beheading (p)	Murder
18/08	Iran	6 unnamed men	Hanging	Armed robbery
20/08	Iran	Keramat Hassani	Hanging	Murder
21/08	Iran	Jafar Samimi	Hanging	Murder
26/08	Iran	Shahram Mohammadi	Hanging	Murder
28/08	Iran	Abbas Aqaiy and 2 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder
29/08	Iran	Mojtaba Asadi	Hanging	Drugs
29/08	Iran	Vahidullah Loghmani	Hanging	Murder
30/08	Egypt	Raza Rabie Kamal Abd Rabbo, Mohamed Ahmed El Sayed Hassan, Saad Gouda Mohamed Ali, Magdy Ahmed El Sayed Hassan and Mohamed Ibrahim Ali Mohamed Amara (5 men)	Hanging	Murder
31/08	Taiwan	Lee Hung-chi	Shooting	Murder

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

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