Executions in May 2012

Executions in May 2012

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

65 men and 3 woman were executed in May, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
01/05	Saudi Arabia	Nujum Abdul-Sherif and Abdul-Majid Hamzah	Beheading (p)	Murder
01/05	America - Oklahoma	Michael Bascum Selsor	Injection	Murder
07/05	Iran	Reza Golshani, Abolfazl Norouzi, Majid Heydarkhani, Majid Doosti, Majid Mandehi, Ali Alaee Babak Pouravarz, Bahman and Behzad Nabavi (9 m)	Hanging	Drugs
07/05	Iran	1 unnamed man	Hanging	Sex crimes
07/05	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah bin Yehya Addawi	Beheading (p)	Murder
14/05	China	Zhang Jianfei	Injection (?)	Murder
15/05	Iran	Majid Jamali Fashi	Hanging	Murder
15/05	Saudi Arabia	Ibrahim Zouani	Beheading (p)	Murder
16/05	Iran	1 unnamed man	Hanging	Drugs
16/05	Iran	A. A. (f), R. A., Kh. Sh., M. B., A. S. M. S. & M. Kh.	Hanging	Drugs
17/05	Iran	3 unnamed men	Hanging	Drugs
17/05	Saudi Arabia	Sultan Al Sahli	Beheading (p)	Murder
19/05	Iran	Farshid & Bagher	Hanging	Rape & robbery
20/05	Saudi Arabia	Bashir Afridi and Rahmulwahab Abdullah	Beheading (p)	Murder
20/05	Iran	S. R. & V. A + 2 unnamed men	Hanging	Drugs
21/05	Iran	14 men (initials only given)	Hanging	Drugs
22/05	Iran	Z.R., A.A. and H.A.	Hanging	Drugs
24/05	Iran	Amirhossein Hosseini	Hanging (p)	Murder
25/05	Iran	Abdolreza Damankeshan	Hanging (p)	Rape
29/05	Saudi Arabia	Majed ben Ghabish al-Husni	Beheading (p)	Murder
30/05	Iran	Kourosh Zarini	Hanging	Prison riot
30/05	Iran	Allahvordi A., Sayyad A., Safar P., Haji P., Khosro D., Nahad N., Omran G., and Abdolmajid M. (8 m)	Hanging	Drugs
Late May	China	Fang Ruifeng & Wu Yuling (f)	Injection (?)	Forgery

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