Female hangings worldwide 1988 - date.

This is a listing of the reported and confirmed female hangings worldwide during the period September 1988 to November 2024. 214 these women were put to death for murder, 82 for drug offences, two for prostitution, 11 for terrorism, one for brothel keeping and one for “moral corruption” and one for espionage.  The crimes of the others were unknown, as they were not reported in the press or disclosed by the authorities.
There were no accurate details for Iraq although it is known that a large number of women were hanged there during the reign of Saddam Hussein. One woman was hanged there on 06/09/06 and it was reported that in total seven women have been executed since 2005, four of them in 2009. Three women were confirmed as having been hanged in Iraq during 2011 and a further two in January 2012 and another two in August 2013, but their names and crime details were not released.
According to government figures released in 2005, Malaysia hanged at least five women between 1981 and 2001, although details were only released in three cases.
No details of names/ages were given for the seven women hanged in South Korea.
Iran uses the short drop style of hanging and may also carry out the execution in public usually by suspension from a truck crane.  Only two women are known to have been hanged in public there.
The “long drop” method of hanging is used by Botswana, Egypt, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia & Singapore and was used in South Korea and South Africa.

Name

Age

Country

Crime

Date of execution/Country of origin, where different from country of execution/Remarks

Alice Norban Barissi and
Farida Taher Sheeh

-

Kuwait

Murder

11/09/88 (Indian)

Catherine Tan Mui Choo and
Hoe Kah Hong

34
33

Singapore

Murder

25/11/88 Hanged with Adrian Lim, Tan was his wife, and Hoe his girlfriend

Sandra Smith

25

South Africa

Murder

02/06/89 Last female execution in South Africa

Unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

08/10/89 hanged with 9 men in Qasr prison in Tehran.

Hau Tsui Ling

32

Malaysia

Drugs

30/05/90 (Hong Kong). Hanged beside her boyfriend, Chow Sing, at Kajang prison.

Itaf Sulayman Ahmad

-

Jordan

Murder

26/03/90 (Hanged)

Zeinab Mohamed Ahmed

-

Egypt

Murder

18/09/91 (Hanged)

2 unnamed women

-

South Korea

Murder

18/12/91 (Hanged)

Tamathil S.

-

Jordan

Murder

18/11/93 (Hanged)

Cheuk Mei-mei

29

Singapore

Drugs

03/03/94 (1st for drugs) (Hong Kong)

Tan Bee Lee

-

Malaysia

Drugs

29/07/94 (Hanged)

Elke Tsang Kai Mong

-

Singapore

Murder

16/12/94 (Hanged)

Angel Mou Pui- Peng

25

Singapore

Drugs

06/01/95 (Hong Kong Macau)

Flor Contemplacion

42

Singapore

Murder

17/03/95 (Philippines)

Tong Ching-man
Poon Yuen-chung

24
22

Singapore

Drugs

21/04/95 (Hong Kong) Both 18 at time of crime.

Unknown

-

Iran

Drugs

04/01/96 (Hanged)

Navarat Maykha

32

Singapore

Drugs

28/09/96 (Hanged) (Thai)

Teo Kim Hong

36

Singapore

Murder

06/09/96 (Hanged)

Amira Saleem &
Eidah Hussein

31
35

Jordan

Murder

25/06/97 (Amira was Syrian)
For the murder of Eidah's husband.

Nobuko Hidaka

51

Japan

Murder

02/08/97 (Hanged)

Raya Musa

35

Jordan

Murder

28/08/97 (Hanged)

5 unnamed women

-

S. Korea

Murder

30/12/97

Rasha & Abeer Ibrahim (sisters)

19/24

Jordan

Murder

03/12/98 (Egyptian)

Gerardine Andrew

36

Singapore

Murder

26/02/99

Manal Abd al-Qabel

-

Egypt

Murder

08/05/99

Masoumeh Fathi

-

Iran

Murder

26/01/00

Alieh Moradi

-

Iran

Murder

26/01/00

Saleh Mansour Hashem

-

Egypt

Murder

10/09/00

Julaiha Begum Maniam

52

Singapore

Murder

16/02/01

2 unnamed women

-

Afghanistan

Prostitution

23/02/01 (First for this offence.
Hanged in public.)

Fariba Tajiani Emamqoli

20's

Iran

Drugs

19/03/01 (Hanged in public in Tehran.)

Mariette Bosch (white)

50

Botswana

Murder

31/03/01 (Hanged) (South African)

Qadeer Kaleeja

24

Kuwait

Murder

17/06/01 (Hanged) (Indian)

Parvin Mirzaei

35

Iran

Murder

03/07/01

Jamileh Assadpour

37

Iran

Murder

12/09/01

Saeedeh Qassempour Malayeri

-

Iran

Murder

18/09/01

Mona Fandey

44

Malaysia

Murder

02/11/01

Ibtisam Ahmad

34

Jordan

Murder

12/05/02 (hanged with her lover)

Nasrin C.

-

Iran

Murder

08/10/02

Unnamed

-

Iran

Murder

16/10/02

Zahra Baghshirin &
Farahnaz Yuly

-

Iran

Murder

29/12/02 (hanged in public in the city of Gachsaran)

Zinat al-Sadat

34

Iran

Murder

08/10/03

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Brothel keeping

25/01/04

Ibtisam Hussein

24

Jordan

Murder

01/03/04 (hanged twice as first rope broke)

Yen May Woen

37

Singapore

Drugs

19/03/04 (Chinese national)

Diba Zomorodian

-

Iran

-

29/06/04 (hanged in public in Qazvin)

Monireh Ghasempour

-

Iran

-

11/07/04 (hanged in public in Tehran)

Ateqeh Rajabi (also given as Atefeh Rajabi)

16

Iran

Moral/sex crimes

15/08/04 (Age given as 22 in court.  Hanged in public for having sex outside marriage. )

Roya

28

Iran

Murder

06/07/05 (hanged in private in a prison at Isfahan with her temporary husband, Mohammed)

Akram N.

20

Iran

Murder

07/12/05 (hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirevan for the murder of Maryam A. (female) in 2001)

Raheleh

-

Iran

Murder

18/01/06 (hanged with her husband, Babak in Evin prison, Tehran.)

Farzaneh Sadeqi

-

Iran

Murder

03/05/06 (hanged in public)

Mahboubeh M.

-

Iran

Murder

21/05/06 (hanged with her male accomplice Abbass H. for the murder of her husband)

Unnamed woman

-

Iraq

Murder?

06/09/06 (1 of 27 people hanged on same day at Abu Ghraib prison Baghdad.)

Houriyeh

29

Iran

Murder

14/07/07 (hanged in public with 2 male accomplices for the murder of her husband and in-laws)

Fakhteh C

30

Iran

Murder

17/10/07 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her employer)

Zahra N

-

Iran

Murder

19/12/07 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)

Rahele Zamani

27

Iran

Murder

02/01/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)

Shabnam Setayesh

34

Iran

Murder

27/08/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)

Fatemeh Haqiqat-Pajuh

38

Iran

Murder

26/11/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)

Tayabeh

30’s

Iran

Murder

23/12/2008 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her step daughter)

Masoumeh Ghale Jahi

33

Iran

Murder

29/01/2009 (hanged in Rafsanjan for murdering her husband)

Delara Darabi

23

Iran

Murder

02/05/09 (hanged in Rasht Central Prison for the murder of a relative)

Zeynab Nazarzadeh

28

Iran

Murder

06/05/09 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her husband)

Azita

30

Iran

Drugs

13/05/09 (hanged with male co-defendant in Qazvin prison)

Afsaneh

29

Iran

Murder

20/05/09 (hanged in Shiraz for the murder of her husband with 3 men)

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

15/07/09 (hanged in Qazvin for the murder of her father in law)

Jamileh

25

Iran

Murder

29/07/09 (hanged in Shiraz for the murder of her husband with a man)

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

24/09/09 (hanged in Sarakhs for the murder of her husband)

Khadijeh J. and Fouzieh J

 

Iran

Drugs

06/10 (hanged in Ahvaz with one man)

Soheila Ghadiri

27

Iran

Murder

20/10/09 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her baby)

Beygum P.

-

Iran

Drugs

16/11/09 (hanged with two men in the central city of Esfahan)

Jihan Mohammed Ali

-

Egypt

Murder

10/03/10 (hanged with male co-defendant for the murder of her husband in 2004)

Shirin Alamhouli

28

Iran

Terrorism

09/05/10 (hanged with four men in Tehran’s Evin prison for planting a bomb)

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

10/10/10 (hanged with 3 men in Zanjan)

Shahla Jahed

40

Iran

Murder

01/12/10 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison for the murder of her footballer boyfriend’s wife in 2002)

Mahin Qadiri

-

Iran

Murder

19/12/10 (hanged in Quazvin for multiple murder of five women)

Zahra Bahrami

46

Iran

Drugs

28/01/11 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison)

Adiva Mirza Soleyman Kalimia

54

Iran

Unknown

14/03/11 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison with her husband)

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Unknown

14/03/11 (hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison)

Two unnamed women

-

Sudan

Child murder

13/05/11 (hanged in Khartoum)

Begam N.

-

Iran

Drugs

20/07/11 (hanged in Rafsanjan with one man)

Leila Hayati

29

Iran

Drugs

28/09/11 (hanged in Hamedan)

Unnamed woman

-

Iraq

Terrorism

17/11/2011

Roghiyeh Khalaj
Horiyeh Sabahi

32
35

Iran

Drugs

05/10/11 (hanged in Hamedan with 5 men)

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

29/11/11 (hanged in Kermanshah)

Nahid A.

-

Iran

Drugs

24/12/11 (hanged at Oroumieh with 6 men)

2 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

10/03/12 (hanged at Zahedan with 6 men)

A. A.

-

Iran

Drugs

16/05/12 (hanged at Kermanshah with 6 men)

Safieh Ghafoori

28

Iran

Murder

12/07/12 (hanged in prison in Shiraz)

3 unnamed women

-

Iraq

Terrorism

27/08/12 (3 of 21 executions this day, all for terrorist offences)

Sachiko Eto

65

Japan

Murder

27/09/12 (hanged at the Sendai Branch Detention House)

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

03/12/12 (hanged in Kermanshah)

2 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

27/01/13 (hanged in Isfahan with 4 men)

Parinaz. M

-

Iran

Drugs

19/02/13 (hanged in prison in Shiraz with 7 men)

2 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

22/04/13 (hanged in prison in Kermanshah with 2 men)

Giti Marami

34

Iran

Murder?

22/05/13 (hanged in prison in Varamin and given 100 lashes)

Golafrooz Fayouj

-

Iran

Drugs

20/06/13 hanged in prison in Shahr-e-Kord (western Iran) with 2 men

5 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

06/07/13 hanged in Zahedan with 6 men

2 unnamed women

-

Iraq

Terrorism

19/08/13 (two of 17 executions this day, all but one for terrorist offences)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

09/09/13 hanged in Orumieh with 5 men

S. H, Z. S. & N. S.

-

Iran

Drugs

19/09/13 (hanged in Yazd with 5 men)

3 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

25/09/13 (hanged in Urmia with 5 men)

Sydkhlyl Sadjadpour

43

Iran

Murder

27/09/13 (hanged in Rajai Shahr prison with 5 men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iraq

Terrorism

One of 42 executions announced on 10/10/13

Nastaran Safari

26

Iran

Murder

21/10/13 (hanged in Kermanshah with 6 men)

Mitra Shahnavazi

-

Iran

Murder

30/10/13 (hanged in Karaj with one man)

A. A. & R. A.

-

Iran

Drugs

21/11/13 (hanged in Yazd with 4 men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

26/11/13 (hanged in Ghezelhesar prison with 10 men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

w/e 26/01/14 (hanged with 2 men in Lorestan)

Farzaneh Moradi

26

Iran

Murder

04/03/14 (hanged in Isfahan prison)

Behjat

26

Iran

Murder

10/05/14 (hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison Karaj)

S. T.

28

Iran

Murder

28/05/14 (hanged in Amol prison)

1 unnamed woman

-

Egypt

Murder

06/06/14 (hanged with 3 men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

22/08/14 (hanged in Zahedan with 2 men)

1 unnamed woman

60

Iran

Drugs

11/09/14 (hanged in Rasht with 1 man)

Reyhaneh Jabbari

26

Iran

Murder

25/10/14 (hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison Karaj)

Marziye Ostavari

-

Iran

Drugs

02/12/14 (hanged in the prison of Urmia with three men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

02/12/14 (hanged in the prison of Karaj with 10 men)

F. Gh.

-

Iran

Drugs

10/12/14 (hanged in the prison of Qazvin)

Nahid

-

Iran

Murder

25/12/14 (hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison Karaj with one man)

4 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

01/01/15 (hanged in Shahab prison in the city of Kerman with 10 men)

Sajida al-Rishawi

40’s

Jordan

Terrorism

04/02/15 (hanged at Swaqa prison with one man)

Marzieh Hossein Zehi

-

Iran

Drugs

25/02/15 (hanged in prison in the city of Kerman with 3 men)

Batool A.

-

Iran

Drugs

12/05/15 (hanged in the prison of Arak with 3 men).

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

08/06/15 (hanged in Ghezelhesar prison, Karaj with one man)

Pari-Dokht Molai-Far

43

Iran

Murder?

29/07/15 (hanged in Karaj)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

30/07/15 (hanged with 4 men in Kerman)

Khuncha Hassan Ismaeil and Berivan Haider Karim

-

Kurdistan

Child murders

12/08/15. (hanged with their husband Farhad Jaafar Mahmood in Duhok)

Fatemeh Salbehi

23

Iran

Murder

13/10/15 (hanged in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz)

F. Znjanyan

-

Iran

Murder

7/12/15 (hanged in the prison of Qazvin)

Zainab

-

Egypt

Murder

13/12/15 (hanged in Damanhour Public Prison)

Zahra Nemati

-

Iran

Drugs

06/01/16 (hanged in Tabriz Central Prison with her husband and two other men)

Unnamed woman

-

Egypt

Murder

01/03/16 (hanged in Assiut Public Prison)

Junko Yoshida

56

Japan

Murder

25/03/16 (hanged at Fukuoka Detention House)

Marwa Abdel Jaid and
Entsar Hassanin

-

Egypt

Murder

20/01/16 (hanged in Minya high-security prison)

Camellia Othman Abdel Sami

30

Egypt

Murder

03/04/16 (hanged in Assiut Public Prison)

Ameneh Rezaian

43

Iran

Drugs

14/04/16 (hanged at Kashmar Prison)

2 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

14/04/16 (hanged at Birjand Prison, north-east Iran with 5 men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

03/06/16 (hanged in the prison of Qazvin with a male murderer)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

17/07/16 (hanged at Ghezelhesar Prison with 10 men)

Sabra

-

Egypt

Murder

27/07/16 (hanged in Tanta General Prison with two men for murder of her husband)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

25/08/16 (hanged in Yazd with 6 men)

Molouk Noori

-

Iran

Drugs

29/09/16 (hanged in the prison of Orumiyeh with 7 men)

Ibtisam Qasem Shafei Mohamed

25

Egypt

Murder

29/12/16 (hanged in Minya High Security prison)

Nusra al-Enezi
Jakatia Mandon Pawa
Omkel Oku Mekonnen

30
42
-

Kuwait

Murder

25/1/2017 (hanged in Central Prison Kuwait together with 4 men)

2 unnamed women

-

Iran

Murder

04/03/2017 (hanged in Rasht prison in Lakan with 2 men)

2 unnamed women

-

Iran

Murder

03/05/2017 (hanged in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj with 6 men)

M. F. A.

-

Egypt

Murder

14/05/17 (hanged in Tanta Public Prison with her lover and friend for the murder of her husband)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

01/07/2017 (hanged in Rasht prison in Lakan with 2 men, including her husband)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

26/07/2017 (Hanged with 2 men at Urmia's central prison.)

1 unnamed woman

25

Iran

Murder

26/07/2017 (Hanged at Babol Central prison.)

N. A.

-

Iran

Murder

19/09/2017 (Hanged in Zanjan for the murder of her husband)

Mahbubeh Mofidi

-

Iran

Murder

30/01/18 (Hanged in Noshahr prison for the murder of her husband)

Zeinab Sekaanvand

24

Iran

Murder

2/10/18 (Hanged with 2 men at Urmia's central prison. She was convicted of the murder of her husband when she was 17)

Asmaa Hamada and
Olfat

18
40

Egypt

Murder

26/02/18 (hanged in Tanta Public Prison)

Sharareh Elyasi

27

Iran

Murder

13/11/18 (Hanged at Sanandaj prison)

Ameima A M.

-

Egypt

Murder

04/12/18 (Hanged in Minya prison with 4 men)

Noushin

25

Iran

Murder

21/12/18 (Hanged in an unspecified prison)

M. A.

-

Iran

Murder

30/01/19 (Hanged in the prison of Nowshahr)

Fatemeh Nassiri

-

Iran

Murder

19/06/19 (Hanged in Gohardasht Prison with 1 man)

Malihei Salehian

-

Iran

Murder

16/07/19 (Hanged in Mahabad Central Prison)

Zahra Safari Moghadam

43

Iran

Murder

17/07/19 (Hanged in the prison of Nowshahr)

Arasteh Ranjbar and Nazdar Vatankhah

-

Iran

Murder

23/07/19 (Hanged in the prison of Urmia)

Asma Ali (mother) and
Asma H. (daughter)

40
19

Egypt

Kidnap and murder

03/08/19 (Hanged in Tanta General Prison with 3 men for the kidnap and murder of a 4 year old cousin.

1 unnamed woman

34

Iran

Murder

25/08/19 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Mashad for the murder of her two children four years ago)

Leila Zarafshan

37

Iran

Murder

26/09/19 (Hanged at Sanandaj Central Prison for the murder of her husband five years ago)

Somayeh Shahbazi Jahroei

33

Iran

Murder

04/12/19 (Hanged at Sepidar Prison in Ahwaz for the murder of a man who allegedly tried to rape her 6 years ago)

Fatemeh Ghezel Safarlou and Nargess o-Sadat Tabaii


50

Iran

Murder

04/12/19 (hanged in Gohardasht Prison for separate murders)

Sabr al-Jamal

30

Egypt

Murder

08/12/19 (Hanged in Assiut Appeal Prison for the murders of her husband and mother in law in 2014)

Fatemeh R.

21

Iran

Murder

09/12/19 (Hanged in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj for the murder of her husband)

Maryam

32

Iran

Murder

11/12/19 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad for the murder of her ex-husband’s sister.  Hanged with her husband Medhi R.)

Sara M.

35

Iran

Murder

09/01/20 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad for the murder of her husband with acid.)

Malihah Haji Hassani

29

Iran

Murder

14/01/20 (hanged in Shiraz Central Prison for the murder of her fiancé.)

Hawaida

-

Egypt

Murder

18/01/20 (hanged in Tanta Public Prison)

Nagwa Mohamed Fouad Ragab

25

Egypt

Murder

04/03/20 (hanged in Tanta prison with her lover and a friend for the murder of her husband.)

Mehri

32

Iran

Murder

02/08/20 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad for the stabbing murder of her husband.)

Marzieh Ebrahimipour

38

Iran

Murder

18/08/20 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad for the stabbing murder of a taxi driver)

Mahtab Shafiei

32

Iran

Murder

23/09/20 (Hanged in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj)

Amani A.

25

Egypt

Murder

06/10/20 (Hanged with 10 men in the Cairo Appeals Prison)

Razieh

33

Iran

Murder

11/10/20 (Hanged in Mashad prison)

Affifi Muhammad Al-Shafei

40

Egypt

Murder

12/10/20 (Hanged with 7 men in Minya prison)

1 unnamed woman

-

Egypt

Murder

29/10/20 (Hanged in Dakahlia Governorate)

Amira L. &
3 unnamed women

30

Egypt

Murder

24/11/20 (Hanged in Zeinhom prison)

Heba M.

34

Egypt

Murder

28/11/20 (Hanged in Qena prison)

Z. M.

26

Iran

Murder

18/10/20 (Hanged in Mashad prison)

Zeinab Khodamradi

33

Iran

Murder

27/12/20 (Hanged in Sanandaj prison)

1 unnamed woman

23

Iran

Murder

08/02/21 (Hanged in Ardabil prison)

Eliza Aban Othu

39

South Sudan

Murder

09/02/21 (Hanged in Kartoum prison)

Zahra Ismaili

42

Iran

Murder

17/02/21 (Hanged with 6 men in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj for the murder by shooting of her husband)

Nahid Othman Rifai Abdel-Aal and 2 unnamed women

-

Egypt

Murder

27/02/21 (Hanged with 2 women and 2 men at Cairo's Appeals Prison for the murder of a 4 year old girl)

3 unnamed women

-

Egypt

Murder

02/03/21 (Hanged with 8 men in Burj Al Arab prison)

Maryam Karimi

-

Iran

Murder

13/03/21 (Hanged in Rasht Central Prison)

Nafiseh Pakmehr

-

Iran

Murder

14/03/21 (Hanged in Taybad prison for the murder of her husband)

3 unnamed women

-

Egypt

Murder

18/03/21 (Hanged with 6 men at Cairo's Appeals Prison)

Laazeth Muhammad Salma

39

Egypt

Murder

19/03/21 (Hanged at Cairo's Appeals Prison)

Nasreen Fawzi Suleiman

-

Egypt

Murder

19/03/21 (Hanged with her husband at Cairo's Appeals Prison)

Kobra Fatemi

41

Iran

Murder

23/05/21 (Hanged in Yazd prison for the murder of husband in 2015)

Shamsi Pirastavan

-

Iran

Drugs

30/05/21 (Hanged with her husband in Qazvin prison)

Ayman Zakaria Abdel Al-Rahman

-

Egypt

Murder

27/06/21 (Hanged with eight men at Cairo's Appeals Prison)

Rasha

-

Egypt

Murder

03/09/21 (Hanged, no details of the prison given)

3 unnamed women

-

Iran

Murder

09/09/21 (Hanged in Rajai Shahr prison)

G. Q.

-

Syria

Murder

06/21/21 (Hanged with her husband, A.B. for the murder of their 3 children)

Susan Rezaei-pour

31

Iran

Murder

10/27/21 (Hanged in Central Prison of Qazvin for the murder of husband 6 years ago.

Unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

23/11/21 (Hanged in Yasouj prison with her husband for double murder)

Maryam Khakpour

41

Iran

Drugs

25/11/21 (Hanged in Dastgerd prison in Isfahan)

3 Unnamed women

-

Iran

Murder?

09/12/21 (Hanged in Kerman prison)

Masoumeh Zarei

42

Iran

Murder

15/12/21 (Hanged in Amol prison)

Fatemeh Aslani

-

Iran

Murder

19/12/21 (Hanged in Dastgerd prison in Isfahan for the murder of husband in 2012)

Khatoun Hamidi

23

Iran

Murder

05/02/22 (Central Prison of Qazvin for the murder of her fiancé in 2017)

Shirin

-

Iran

Murder

14/03/22 (Hanged in Shiraz for murder with her husband, Hooman )

Shahoozhi (Family name)

-

Iran

Drugs

06/05/22 (Hanged in Zahedan prison with three men)

Ms. Hayati

-

Iran

Murder

23/05/22 (Hanged in Shiraz for murder with her husband. She was hanged with one man)

Laden Mulla Saeedi 

-

Iran

Murder

25/05/22 (Hanged in Qarchak prison in Varamin)

Ms. Gargij

-

Iran

Murder

06/06/22 (Hanged in Zahedan prison with eleven men

Robab Danaii

-

Iran

Murder

21/07/22 (Hanged in Yazd prison with one man)

Sahila Abedi

31

Iran

Murder

27/07/22 (Hanged in Sanandaj prison for the murder of her husband in 2014)

Faranak Beheshti

 

 

 

27/07/22 (Hanged in Urmia prison for the murder of her husband in 2017)

Sanobar Jalali

-

Iran

Murder

27/07/22 (Hanged in Gohardasht prison for the murder of her husband)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

20/08/22 (Hanged in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz with 1 man)

M-Shehbakhsh

-

Iran

Murder

10/09/22 (Hanged with 4 men in Zahedan prison)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

27/10/22 (Hanged in Boroujerd Prison for the murder of her husband)

Rabab Adly Mostafa Shehata (Kuwaiti) and Aisha Nemo Viso (Ethiopean)

-

Kuwait

Murder

16/11/22 (Hanged in Kuwait Central Prison for premeditated murder)

Moloud Molazadeh

-

Iran

Murder

04/12/22 (Hanged in Dastgerd Prison for the murder of her father in law)

Nazifeh

-

Iran

Murder

Early January. (Hanged in Fardis Prison for the murder of her husband)

Fariba Hosseini

-

Iran

Murder

14/02/23 (Hanged in Fardis Prison for murder)

2 unnamed women

-

Iran

Unknown

26/02/23 (Hanged in Birjand prison in south Khorasan with 3 men)

Lila Bamri

-

Iran

Drugs

27/02/23 (Hanged in Bandar Abbas prison)

Nasrin Niazi

-

Iran

Drugs

16/03/23 (Hanged with 5 men in Urmia prison)

Maryam Najjar

-

Iran

Murder

28/03/23 (Hanged in Dastgerd prison Prison with 1 man)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

30/04/23 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Zahedan with 1 man)

Madina Sabzevan

39

Iran

Drugs

30/04/23 (Hanged in Birjand prison with 2 men)

Monireh Nourikia

35

Iran

Murder

28/05/23 (Hanged in Mashhad prison)

Afsaneh Shahiki

50

Iran

Murder

02/07/23 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Kerman)

Monireh Siyadat and Farziyeh Shokrollahi

-

Iran

Murder

09/07/23 (Hanged in Dastgerd prison Prison)

Fateme Yusuf Abadi

-

Iran

Murder

11/07/23 (Hanged in Rajaei Shahr prison)

Saridewi binte Djamani

45

Singapore

Drugs

28/07/23 (Hanged at Changi prison)

Ryqiyeh Abedini

40

Iran

Murder

10/08/23 (Hanged in Hamedan Central Prison with 1 man)

Mahboubeh Roshandel

27

Iran

Murder

04/09/23 (Hanged in in Mashhad Central Prison)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

08/09/23 (Hanged in Qom prison)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

21/10/23 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Isfahan with 1 man)

Maryam Forough-Manesh

-

Iran

Murder

01/11/23 (Hanged in the Central Prison of Yasouj)

Zarkhaton Mazarzehi

46

Iran

Drugs

14/11/23 (Hanged in Kerman Prison)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

26/11/23 (Hanged in Lakan Prison of Rasht with 2 men)

Samira Sabzianfard

32

Iran

Murder

20/12/23 (Hanged in in Qarchak prison in Varamin)

Nasim Namazi

-

Iran

Espionage

29/12/23

Hajar Atabaki

41

Iran

Drugs

30/01/24 (Hanged in Qazvin Central Prison)

Zahra Nazarian

27

Iran

Murder

31/01/24 (Hanged in Sabzevar prison)

Zolfaqari

-

Iran

Drugs

18/03/24 (Hanged in Tabriz with her husband Yassin)

Marjan Hajizadeh

19

Iran

Drugs

11/04/24 (Hanged in Zanjan prison with her husband Ismail)

Soraya Mohammadi

-

Iran

Murder

25/04/24 (Hanged in Karaj with 2 men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

30/04/24 (Hanged in Birjand prison with three men)

Fariba Mohammadzahi

33

Iran

Drugs

08/05/24 (Hanged with 2 men in Kerman prison)

Razieh

33

Iran

Murder

15/05/24 (Hanged in Vakil Abad prison of Mashhad)

Parvin Mousavi

50

Iran

Drugs

18/05/24 (Hanged in Urmia with 4 men)

Fatemeh Abdullahi

27

Iran

Murder

18/05/24 (Hanged in Nishapur)

Mahmoudi Nia

-

Iran

Murder

20/07/24 (Hanged in Adel Abad prison with 3 men)

3 unnamed women

-

Iran

Drugs

23/07/24 (Hanged in Birjand prison with 4 men)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

27/07/24 (Hanged in Khorramabad Central Prison with 3 men)

Chan Myae Thu

-

Myanmar

Terrorism

23/09/24 (Hanged with her husband, Maung Kaung Htet

1 unnamed woman

-

Iraq

Terrorism

25/09/24 (Hanged with 20 men in Al-Hout prison in the city of Nasiriyah)

Zahra Faizi

41

Iran

Murder

02/10/24 (Hanged in Tabriz prison for the murder of her husband)

Akhtar Ghorbanlou

-

Iran

Murder

02/10/24 (Hanged in Ahar prison for the murder of her husband)

Leila Qaemi 

-

Iran

Murder

03/10/24 (Hanged in Qazalhasar prison in Karaj for the murder of her husband)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

16/10/24 (Hanged in Hamadan prison with 1 man)

Nasrin Firoozi 

-

Iran

Murder

20/10/24 (Hanged in Tabriz prison with her lover and co-defendant)

1 unnamed woman

-

Syria

Murder

21/1/24 (Hanged in Sweida Central Prison for the murder of her husband)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Drugs

07/11/24 (Hanged in Rasht's Lakan prison with 1 man)

Maherkh Khani

-

Iran

Drugs

10/11/24 (Hanged in Tabriz Central Prison with 1 man)

1 unnamed woman

-

Iran

Murder

13/11/24 (Hanged in Qazalhasar prison in Karaj with 7 men)

Fariba Maleki Shiravand

36

Iran

Murder

24/11/24 (Hanged in Khorram Abad Central Prison)

See also Female executions 1990 - 2021 for a listing of all known female executions during this period.

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