Executions in January 2007.

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
America	4
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Botswana
China	4
Congo
Egypt
Indonesia
Iran	17
Iraq	2
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Libya
Malaysia
Pakistan	6
Saudi Arabia	7
Singapore	2
Somalia
Taiwan
Vietnam
Yemen
Total	42

41 men and 1 woman were executed in January 2007, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
03/01	Iran	Qadir & 2 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder & rape
03/01	Iran	Ali Sh.	Hanging	Drugs
09/01	America – Oklahoma	Corey Duane Hamilton	Injection	Murder
09/01	Pakistan	Waheed Iqbal	Hanging	Murder
09/01	China	Chen Lizhen & 2 unnamed men	Injection?	Drugs
10/01	America – Texas	Carlos Granados	Injection	Murder
12/01	Pakistan	Zameer Elahi	Hanging	Murder
13/01	Iran	2 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder & armed robbery
14/01	Saudi Arabia	Saud bin Harbi al-Hajiri	Beheading (p)	Murder
15/01	Iraq	Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti & Awad Hamed al-Bandar	Hanging	Murder
15/01	Iran	Abbas	Hanging (p)	Murder
16/01	Pakistan	Hamidullah & Nazeer Ahmad	Hanging	Murder
16/01	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah Bin Ahmad Al Zahrani	Beheading (p)	Murder
17/01	Saudi Arabia	Nour Wali Khan Moemen & Ali Anwar Mohammed	Beheading (p)	Drugs
17/01	America – Texas	Johnathan Moore	Injection	Murder
17/01	Saudi Arabia	Ali bin Mohammed bin Khilan al-Harbi	Beheading (p)	Rape
17/01	Pakistan	Sharif Chushti	Hanging	Murder
17/01	Iran	Arash & Houshang	Hanging	Murder
19/01	China	Liang Jiqian	Injection?	Murder
19/01	Pakistan	Mian Maqbool	Hanging	Murder
20/01	Iran	M.H., S.S., and Toraj Seyah-Kamari	Hanging	Murder
24/01	Iran	Khalaf Derhab Khudayrawi, Alireza Asakreh, Mohammad Jaab Pour and Abdulamir Farjallah Jaab	Hanging	Bomb attack
26/01	Singapore	Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi & Nelson Malachy	Hanging	Drugs
28/01	Iran	Baqer Sajjadi	Hanging	Murder
29/01	Saudi Arabia	Hala bint Marzouk Al Outaibi (f)	Beheading (p)	Murder
30/01	America – Texas	Christopher Swift	Injection	Murder
31/01	Saudi Arabia	Khan Zadda Abdul-Qayoum Salama bin Marzouq al- Armani & Samir bin Gazaa al-Matiri	Beheading (p)	Drugs Armed robbery & murder

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

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