Executions in May 2015

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country

No of executions

Afghanistan

 

America (USA)

1

Bangladesh

 

Belarus

 

Botswana

 

China

2

Egypt

6

Indonesia

 

Iran

99

Iraq

 

Jordan

 

Kuwait

 

Pakistan

37

Palestine (Gaza)

 

Saudi Arabia

17

Singapore

 

Somalia

3

Taiwan

 

Vietnam

 

Yemen

 

164 men and 1 woman were executed in May, their details are as under.

Date

Country

Name

Method

Crime

03/05

Saudi Arabia

Shirin Khan

Beheading (p)

Drugs

04/05

Saudi Arabia

Khaled Fetini, Ibrahim Nasser, Hassan Omar, Salem Idriss and Abdel Wahhab Abdel Maeen

Beheading (p)

Murder

04/05

Iran

3 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

06/05

Pakistan

Zulfiqar

Hanging

Murder

06/05

Iran

3 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

06/05

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

06/05

Saudi Arabia

Hussein al-Omairi

Beheading (p)

Drugs

07/05

Iran

11 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

09/05

Iran

A. F., Adel Bakhshalizadeh, Bahman Esmaeili, Ghader Hamidi and Ali Tajdari

Hanging

Murder

11/05

Iran

M. B.

Hanging

Murder

11/05

Iran

4 unnamed men

Hanging

Armed robbery

12/05

Pakistan

Saulat Mirza

Hanging

Murder

12/05

Saudi Arabia

Rabie al-Sai'ari

Beheading (p)

Drugs

12/05

America - Texas

Derrick Dewayne Charles

Injection

Murder

12/05

Iran

Ali Y , Batool A. (f), Mansour G, Abolfazl M. + 3 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

13/05

Saudi Arabia

Eisa Ali Ahmed Hajri, Mohammed Ali Saifi and Majid Gasim al-Ahdal

Beheading (p)

Drugs

13/05

Somalia

Shoeib Ibrahim and
Fareh Ali Abdi

Shooting

Murder

13/05

Iran

M. M., Kh. Ahmadi + 1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

15/05

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

16/05

Pakistan

Ahmad Khan

Hanging

Murder

17/05

Egypt

6 unnamed men

Hanging

Terrorist murders

17/05

Saudi Arabia

Iftikhar Ahmed Mohammed Anayat

Beheading (p)

Drugs

19/05

Iran

Hossein A

Hanging (p)

Rape

19/05

Iran

Ayob Torkamani

Hanging (p)

Drugs

19/05

Iran

Abdolrahman Sh., Isa B., Alireza B. & Ahmadreza M.

Hanging

Drugs

19/05

Somalia

Siraji Abdullahi

Shooting

Murder

20/05

Pakistan

Mohammad Musa & Zulfiqar

Hanging

Murder

20/05

Iran

Ardalan, Ali, Morteza, Meysam and Behrouz

Hanging

Murder

20/05

Iran

A. Kh.

Hanging (p)

Murder

21/05

Pakistan

Aijaz, Amjad &
Shaukat Masih

Hanging

Murder

21/05

Iran

Afshin Karimi, Ahmed Timurid and M Mirzaee + 8 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

23/05

Pakistan

Rashid Muneer, Arshad & Mohammad Wazir

Hanging

Murder

23/05

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Drugs

24/05

Iran

6 unnamed men

Hanging

Drugs

24/05

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

25/05

China

Lian Enqing

Injection

Murder

25/05

Iran

Abbas Heydari, Abbas Ameri, karimbakhsh Bameri, Haj Ahmad Ebrahimi, Asghar Kooshki, Ahmad Rabiei, Ahmad Rabdoost, Seyed Mohamad Mirhosseini, Nader Hajizadeh, Jahangir Shahozahi, Mehran Baluchzahi, Mehrshad Soleimani, Reza Daeizadeh and Ehsan Saghafi + 8 unnamed men (22 total)

Hanging

Drugs

26/05

Pakistan

Asif & Iftikhar, Shakeel and Sher Ali, Ishaq, Amjad, Muhammad Nawaz, Anwar Ahmed, Rana Faryad, Mohammad Afzal & Ibrahim
(11 men)

Hanging

Murder

26/05

Saudi Arabia

Awad al-Rowaili and Lafi al-Shammary

Beheading (p)

Drugs

26/05

Saudi Arabia

Mohammed al-Shihri

Beheading (p)

Murder

27/05

Pakistan

Abdul Khaliq, Shahzad, Naseer Ahmed, Faisal Mehmood, Abdul Sattar, Sanaullah and Khan Mohammad (7 men)

Hanging

Murder

27/05

Iran

S. K., R. M. & H. H.

Hanging (p)

Rape & armed robbery

27/05

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging

Murder

27/05

Saudi Arabia

Fahd bin Hussein Daghriri

Beheading (p)

Murder

28/05

Pakistan

Mahmood, Akseer, Muhammad Ashraf, Amir Abdullah & Khurram

Hanging

Murder

28/05

Pakistan

Shahsawar Baloch, Sabir Baloch and Shabbir Rind

Hanging

Terrorism

28/05

Iran

R. A. and 2 unnamed men

Hanging

Murder

28/05

Saudi Arabia

Ihsan Amin

Beheading (p)

Drugs

29/05

China

Li Jishun

Injection

Rape

31/05

Iran

A. Gh. & N. R.

Hanging

Drugs

31/05

Iran

1 unnamed man

Hanging (p)

Rape

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

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