For other years, see Worldwide Executions 2006-2025 Index.
Below are the monthly figures for worldwide executions in 2016.
(f) = female, (j) = juvenile, (p) = public
Executions in January 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for January 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 4 |
| Bangladesh | 3 |
| China | 3 |
| Iran | 51 |
| Pakistan | 10 |
| Saudi Arabia | 55 |
| Somalia | 1 |
| Somaliland | 7 |
131 men and 3 women were executed in January 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/01 | Iran | A. S. & 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 02/01 | Saudi Arabia | 47 named men | Beheading (43) Shooting (4) | Terrorism |
| 02/01 | Iran | B. Amiri, Rahman Ali Hasanvand and Kazemzadeh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 03/01 | Iran | Mehdi Ranjkesh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 04/01 | Iran | Abbas Bazari Jamkhaneh | Hanging (p) | Murder |
| 04/01 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 04/01 | Somalia | Mustaf Mahiye Diyow | Shooting | Murder |
| 04/01 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed Obeid al-Amri al-Harbi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 05/01 | Iran | Farhang Horouyan, Haji Divaribadri, and Hamid Ghanbari | Hanging | Drugs |
| 05/01 | Iran | Mehdi Nasirtian | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/01 | Iran | Maghsoud Mehdizadeh, Hamid Khodabandebou, Mehdi Sadeghi, and Mohammad Nadirnejad | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/01 | Iran | Tofigh Mohammadfar, Hossein Zadegan Eskandar, Amir Ali Zadegan Eskandar and Zahra Nemati (f) Mohammad Jamali Fashi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 06/01 | Saudi Arabia | Saud bin Mohammed al-Shalwi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 07/01 | Iran | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 07/01 | Iran | Reza Jalili Alishahi V. R. | Hanging (p) | Murder |
| 07/01 | America – Florida | Oscar Ray Bolin | Injection | Murder |
| 07/01 | Bangladesh | Safayet Hossain Habib, Anwar Hossain and Rashedul Islam Jhantu | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 09/01 | Iran | V.A. & A. T. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 10/01 | Saudi Arabia | Jinat Damti Farid (f) | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 10/01 | Iran | Ghodrat Garavand | Hanging | Murder |
| 10/01 | Iran | B.G., M.H., and A.B. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 11/01 | Somaliland | Abdirizaq Mohamed Khayre, Abdiaziz Saeed Warsame, Abdilahi Abdi Elmi & Osman Hirad Diriye | Shooting | Murder |
| 12/01 | Pakistan | Muhammad Sardar and Rasheed Ahmad | Hanging | Murder |
| 12/01 | Saudi Arabia | Mishari al-Anzi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 12/01 | Iran | H. S. | Hanging (p) | Rape & armed robbery |
| 12/01 | Iran | Seyed Hamid Haji, Hussein Tvtyannvsh, Mostafa Jamshidi & M. Nasiri | Hanging | Drugs |
| 13/01 | Iran | Aref Shahindeji, Hossein Ezzataleb, Rahman Ranjbar, Alireza Akbari, Arsalan Badyaneh, Houshang Zare and Abdul Wahab Hatami (7 men) | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/01 | Iran | A. B. | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/01 | Saudi Arabia | Yasser Mahmoud Ahmed Ali Qaiza | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 14/01 | Pakistan | Sajid | Hanging | Murder |
| 16/01 | Iran | S. Gh., M. F. and A. A. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 16/01 | Iran | H. R. | Hanging | Rape |
| 16/01 | China | Wang | Injection | Murder |
| 17/01 | Somaliland | Muna Mohamed Abdilahi (f) & Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Abdule Hasan | Shooting | Murder |
| 19/01 | Pakistan | Ghulam Gilani, Allah Ditta and Sultan | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/01 | Pakistan | Anwar Khan & Hakim | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/01 | America – Texas | Richard Allen Masterson | Injection | Murder |
| 21/01 | Pakistan | Muhammad Akram | Hanging | Murder |
| 21/01 | America – Alabama | Christopher Eugene Brooks | Injection | Murder |
| 24/01 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/01 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Awadh bin Ahmed Al-Zahrani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 27/01 | Saudi Arabia | Mahmud Jumaa Morsi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 27/01 | America – Texas | James Freeman | Injection | Murder |
| 28/01 | Saudi Arabia | Owaidhah Al Saadi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 28/01 | Pakistan | Mumrez | Hanging | Murder |
| 28/01 | China | Tan Yongzhi | Injection | Kidnapping children |
| 28/01 | China | Hasan Yusufov | Injection | Drugs |
Executions in February 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for February 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 3 |
| Iran | 3 |
| Iraq | 1 |
| Pakistan | 13 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 |
29 men were executed in February 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/02 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed Al-Harbi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 01/02 | Iran | Khaled Kordi & Moslem Abarian | Hanging | Drugs |
| 02/02 | Saudi Arabia | Khatar Doli Koji & Mosaid al-Shahrani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 03/02 | America – Georgia | Brandon Astor Jones | Injection | Murder |
| 04/02 | Pakistan | Muhammad Jora | Hanging | Murder |
| 04/02 | Pakistan | Bilal Ahmed | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 08/02 | Iraq | Abdulla Azzam Al-Qahtani | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 09/02 | Pakistan | Haider Shehzad and Ghafoor Masih | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/02 | Saudi Arabia | Ibrahim Mohammed Salman | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 10/02 | Pakistan | Altaf Ahmed | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/02 | Saudi Arabia | Wesam Abdulredha Hassan Al-Mahsanawi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 16/02 | America – Texas | Gustavo Garcia | Injection | Murder |
| 17/02 | Saudi Arabia | Daifallah al-Omrani, Ahmed Mubarak and Abdul Salam al-Jamali | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 17/02 | America – Georgia | Travis Hittson | Injection | Murder |
| 23/02 | Pakistan | Faiz, Ramzan and Mumtaz Ahmad | Hanging | Murder |
| 23/02 | Saudi Arabia | Mufrih bin Ahmed Khamis | Beheading (p) | Rape |
| 23/02 | Iran | Morad Ali Rajablou | Hanging | Drugs |
| 24/02 | Pakistan | Nemat Gul & Idrees | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/02 | Pakistan | Imran Sabir Irshad | Hanging | Murder Kidnap and rape |
| 26/02 | Pakistan | Saeed Khan | Hanging | Murder |
| 29/02 | Pakistan | Mumtaz Qadri | Hanging | Murder |
Executions in March 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for March 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 3 |
| Iran | 2 |
| Iraq | 20 |
| Japan | 2 |
| Pakistan | 10 |
| Malaysia | 3 |
| Myanmar (Panghsang) | 2 |
| Saudi Arabia | 18 |
56 men and 1 woman were executed in March 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/03 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed Jarboui, & Kassadi Atoudi Selimann Messoudi Ayed Musa al-Tayaha | Beheading (p) | MurderDrugs |
| 01/03 | Pakistan | Muhammad Ali | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/03 | Saudi Arabia | Alaa al-Zahrani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 06/03 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/03 | Iraq | Abdullah Mahmous Sydat and 19 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 08/03 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah Rouwaili | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 09/03 | Pakistan | Muhammad Tariq | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/03 | Iran | M. H. | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/03 | America – Texas | Coy Wayne Wesbrook | Injection | Murder |
| 13/03 | Myanmar (Panghsang) | Yan Lu and Li Jian Guo | Shooting | Murder |
| 13/03 | Saudi Arabia | Hadian Al Qahtani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 15/03 | Pakistan | Gohar Ali | Hanging | Murder |
| 16/03 | Saudi Arabia | Omar al-Rabie | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 17/03 | Saudi Arabia | Marwan Abdo Mohammed & Ahmed al-Zahri Aseeri | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 22/03 | America – Texas | Adam Kelly Ward | Injection | Murder |
| 23/03 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah al-Harbi in Buraydah | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 24/03 | Pakistan | Abdullah Baloch and Sohail Ahmed | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 24/03 | Saudi Arabia | Ammar al-Sager and Turki al-Gahtani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 25/03 | Malaysia | Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu, Ramesh Jayakumar & Sasivarnam Jayakumar | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/03 | Japan | Yasutoshi Kamata & Junko Yoshida (f) | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/03 | Pakistan | Qari Suhail | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 27/03 | Saudi Arabia | Elyas Mohammed Ismael | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 29/03 | Pakistan | Ghazanfer Ali | Hanging | Murder |
| 30/03 | Pakistan | Ghulam Abbas | Hanging | Murder |
| 30/03 | Saudi Arabia | Zhafer & Hussein al-Mutliq | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 30/03 | Pakistan | Mehmood and Rab Nawaz | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 31/03 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed al-Khaweir al-Qahtani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 31/03 | America – Georgia | Joshua Bishop | Injection | Murder |
Executions in April 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for April 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 3 |
| Belarus | 1 |
| Iran | 50 |
| Pakistan | 18 |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 |
| Somalia | 3 |
78 men and 3 women were executed in April 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 04/04 | Saudi Arabia | Baddah al-Dusari & Mansur al-Azuri | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 05/04 | Pakistan | Aslam | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/04 | Pakistan | Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Luqman and Raheel Ahmed | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/04 | America – Texas | Pablo Lucio Vasquez | Injection | Murder |
| 09/04 | Pakistan | Nasir Mehmood & Tahir Iqbal | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/04 | Somalia | Abdirisack Mohamed Barow, & Hassan Nur Ali | Shooting | Murder |
| 09/04 | Iran | Rashid Kouhi, Seyed Javad Mirzadeh and Hossein Farhadi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/04 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/04 | Somalia | Hassan Hanafi Haji | Shooting | Murder |
| 12/04 | Pakistan | Adeel Shahzad and Muhammad Ashraf | Hanging | Murder |
| 12/04 | America – Georgia | Kenneth Earl Fults | Injection | Murder |
| 13/04 | Pakistan | Waris Mir, Muhammad Irfan, Anwar-ul-Haq & Ghulam Farooq | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/04 | Iran | Mostafa Ejlali, Ebad Mohammadi, Javad Sadeghi, Mehdi Haghshenas, and Mohammad Javad Mozaffari + 2 unnamed (8 men) | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/04 | Pakistan | Imtiaz Ahmed & Allah Ditta | Hanging | Murder |
| 14/04 | Iran | Ameneh Rezaian (f) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/04 | Iran | 5 unnamed men & 2 women | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/04 | Iran | Ghader Mazaheri | Hanging | Rape |
| 16/04 | Iran | E. M., D. A. F. V. | Hanging | Murder Drugs |
| 16/04 | Belarus | Syarhey Iwanow | Shooting | Murder |
| 17/04 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 17/04 | Iran | Mojtaba Kazemi, Hamid Shahsavand and Hamid Mahdavi + 1 unnamed | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/04 | Belarus | Sergey Ivanov | Shooting | Murder |
| 19/04 | Iran | Alireza Sarebani, Ahmad Nami, Manouchehr Razani and Abdolhamid Moradi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 20/04 | Saudi Arabia | Hussain al-Magaafi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 20/04 | Iran | H. H. Javad Sanji & 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder Drugs |
| 21/04 | Saudi Arabia | Shah Zaman Khan Sayyed | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 23/04 | Iran | Jamshid Dehvari, Sadeq Rigi, and Mohammad Sanchouli | Hanging | Murder |
| 24/04 | Iran | Z. Ch. | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/04 | Pakistan | Tahir and Imran | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/04 | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed al-Ramadan | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 26/04 | Iran | 5 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 27/04 | America – Georgia | Daniel Anthony Lucas | Injection | Murder |
| 27/04 | Iran | Kazem Salimi and Jamshid Nouripour + 4 unnamed | Hanging | Murder |
| 28/04 | Pakistan | Ali Raza Khanzada & Farhad Said Muhammad | Hanging | Murder |
| 28/04 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed Abu Zayed | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 28/04 | Iran | Mehdi Bagherzadeh and Esmaeil Tanabi | Hanging | Drugs |
Executions in May 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for May 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| Afghanistan | 6 |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| Botswana | 1 |
| Iran | 60 |
| Iraq | 12 |
| Pakistan | 10 |
| Palestine (Gaza) | 3 |
| Saudi Arabia | 7 |
| Singapore | 1 |
| Taiwan | 1 |
103 men were executed in May 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/05 | Saudi Arabia | Saad al-Zahrani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 01/05 | Iran | M. R. & 1 unnamed man 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder Rape |
| 03/05 | Pakistan | Asghar Ali | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/05 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/05 | Pakistan | Nadim Aslam, Mohammad Ishfaq, Mohammad Arif and Shahzad | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/05 | Iran | Avaz | Hanging (p) | Murder |
| 04/05 | Saudi Arabia | Mufreh al-Harissi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 04/05 | Iran | Ahmad al-Tafi, Abdolhamid Baqeri, Majid Imani, and Reza Hosseini | Hanging | Drugs |
| 04/05 | Pakistan | Muhammad Zahoor | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/05 | Saudi Arabia | Maher al-Ghurabli | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 07/05 | Iran | Fardin R. | Hanging (p) | Armed robbery |
| 08/05 | Afghanistan | 6 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 08/05 | Iran | Morteza Mohsen Bahaoldini | Hanging | Murder Drugs |
| 09/05 | Iran | Nasser Saeedi and Mehdi Naboshi | Hanging | Murder |
| 10/05 | Pakistan | Capt Zafar Iqbal Mirza, Sarfraz and Mansha | Hanging | Murder |
| 10/05 | Saudi Arabia | Mohsen al-Dosari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 10/05 | Taiwan | Cheng Chieh | Shooting | Murder |
| 11/05 | Bangladesh | Motiur Rahman Nizami | Hanging | War crimes |
| 11/05 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 11/05 | America – Missouri | Earl Forrest | Injection | Murder |
| 12/05 | Iran | Behnam Mohammadi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/05 | Iran | A. A. & E. Sh. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/05 | Iran | H. P. | Hanging | Rape |
| 17/05 | Iran | H. H. | Hanging (p) | Murder |
| 17/05 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed Ishaq Gul | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 17/05 | Iran | Rahim Khodayari, Ramin Imani & Sohrab Sharbatiyeh 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder Armed robbery |
| 17/05 | Iran | Naji Keywan, Nader Mohammadi, Ali Shamugardian, Aziz Nouri-Azar, Fereydoon Rashidi and Heidar Amini | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/05 | Iran | Yaghoub Jahed and Seyed Jalal Abedi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/05 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Rape |
| 18/05 | Iran | Dariush Farajzadeh, S. R. & Ghafour Ghaderzadeh | Hanging | Murder |
| 19/05 | Iran | Sepahdar | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/05 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/05 | Singapore | Kho Jabing | Hanging | Murder |
| 24/05 | Saudi Arabia | Emad bin Saud bin Uwaidh Al-Usaimi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 24/05 | Iran | Ruhollah Roshangar, Hadi Shekasteh and Moslem Mahmoud Zehi Khash | Hanging | Drugs |
| 24/05 | Iraq | 12 unnamed men (date of announcement) | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 25/05 | Iran | Mehdi Rajai, (j), Mohsen Agha-Mohammadi, Asghar Azizi, Farhad Bakhshayesh, Iman Fatemi-Pour, Javad Khorsandi, Hossein Mohammadi, Masoud Raghadi, and Khosrow Robat-Dasti (11 men) | Hanging | Murder (10)Rape (1) |
| 25/05 | Botswana | Patrick Gabaakanye | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/05 | Iran | Hamid B. | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 27/05 | Pakistan | Said Jehan | Hanging | Murder |
| 29/05 | Saudi Arabia | Fahd bin Bakr bin Mohammed Hawsawi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 30/05 | Iran | Zohrabi + 2 unnamed men | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 31/05 | Palestine (Gaza) | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 31/05 | Palestine (Gaza) | 1 unnamed man | Shooting | Murder |
| 31/05 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 31/05 | Pakistan | Basheer | Hanging | Murder |
Executions in June 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for June 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| Iran | 11 |
| Iraq | 12 |
| Pakistan | 2 |
12 men and 1 woman were executed in June 2016. The Muslim month of Ramadan began on 6 June.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/06 | Pakistan | Hamed Akhtar | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/06 | Iran | Amir Q. & 1 unnamed woman | Hanging | Murder Drugs |
| 05/06 | Iran | Amin D. & M. G. | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 06/06 | Pakistan | Muhammad Bashir | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/06 | Iran | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/06 | China | Fan Jieming | Injection | Murder |
| 16/06 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 16/06 | Iran | A.Z., Gh.A., and B.A. | Hanging | Drugs |
Executions in July 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for July 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 3 |
| Indonesia | 4 |
| Iran | 58 |
| Iraq | 7 |
| Pakistan | 7 |
| Saudi Arabia | 18 |
| South Sudan | 2 |
99 men and 1 woman were executed in July 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 04/07 | Iraq | 5 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 05/07 | Iraq | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 11/07 | Iran | Hadi Pashaei, Masoud Taqi-Pour, Hassan Faraj-Pour, Mehdi Baqeri, Baqer Jalili and Hamid Haqvin | Hanging | Drugs |
| 12/07 | Bangladesh | Maku Rabi Das | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/07 | Bangladesh | Md Shahidul & Saiful Islam | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/07 | Iran | Seyed Mohammad Taheri, Saeed Hossein Khani & 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/07 | Iran | Saeed Akbari | Hanging | Rape |
| 14/07 | America – Georgia | John Wayne Conner | Injection | Murder |
| 16/07 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 17/07 | Iran | Mansour Zafarani, Yousef Barahoui and Qassem Delshad | Hanging | Drugs |
| 17/07 | Iran | Q. J. & M. R. | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 17/07 | Iran | Saeed Saberi and Moslem Bahrami + 8 unnamed men and 1 woman | Hanging | Drugs |
| 17/07 | Saudi Arabia | Fahd al-Husni | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/07 | Pakistan | Tahir Hussain & Chan Zaib | Hanging | Murder |
| 19/07 | Saudi Arabia | Ali bin Mohammed bin Ali Al-Jaber Asisi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 19/07 | Saudi Arabia | Muhammed Mukhtar Ghalam Shabir | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 20/07 | Iran | Mohsin Khan Mohammed, Alireza Rezaei, Said Timurid, Galilee Ramezani & 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 20/07 | Saudi Arabia | Hassan bin Mubarak al-Omri | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 20/07 | Iran | Mohsen Babaie, Mehdi Keshavarz, Reza Teymouri Mohsen Khanmohammadi & 6 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 21/07 | Saudi Arabia | Ayed al-Shaibani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 22/07 | Saudi Arabia | Fahad Abdulhadi al-Dusari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 22/07 | South Sudan | 2 unnamed men | Shooting | Murder |
| 23/07 | Iran | H. D. | Hanging | Murder |
| 23/07 | Iran | A. M. & F. B. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 24/07 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah al-Quathami, Mataab, Mohammed al-Quathami & Nayef al-Quathami | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 25/07 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging (p) | Murder |
| 25/07 | Saudi Arabia | Fahd al-Aishan & Mohammed al-Shahrani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 26/07 | Saudi Arabia | Yahya Ali Majhali | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 26/07 | Pakistan | Shafeeq | Hanging | Murder |
| 27/07 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed al-Shamiri | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 27/07 | Pakistan | Sibtain Shah & Ghulam Mustafa | Hanging | Murder |
| 27/07 | Iran | Rahman Fouladi, Abdolmajid Herkuli, Abdollah Qaderi, Changiz Shiri, Mojtaba Shirkhani and Ali Talati | Hanging | Drugs |
| 27/07 | Iran | Reza Sabzevari & Nasrollah Reigi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/07 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed al-Attawi & Mohammed al-Muri | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 29/07 | Indonesia | Freddy Budiman, Seck Osmane, Michael Titus Igweh and Humphrey Ejike | Shooting | Drugs |
| 30/07 | Pakistan | Ghazenfer Ali & Muhammad Yaqoob | Hanging | Murder |
| 31/07 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh al-Haq Abdulhaq | Beheading (p) | Murder |
Executions in August 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for August 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| China | 1 |
| Iran | 84 |
| Iraq | 47 |
| Pakistan | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 |
| Somalia | 1 |
| South Sudan | 2 |
140 men and 2 women were executed in August 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 02/08 | Iran | Shahram Ahmadi, Khaled Maleki, Mokhtar Rahimi, Bahman Rahimi, Kaveh Veisi and Kaveh Sharifi + 14 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 03/08 | Iran | Majid Nazari, Mostafa Salimzadeh, Loqman Rashidi, and Kaveh Sohrabi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 03/08 | Iran | Shahram Amiri | Hanging | Espionage |
| 04/08 | Iran | Mostafa Salimzadeh | Hanging | Murder |
| 04/08 | Iran | Loghman Rashidi and Kaveh Sohrabi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 06/08 | Iran | Mojtaba N., Majid H. and 4 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 08/08 | Saudi Arabia | Hussein bin Mohammed Ahmed Hassan | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 09/08 | Iran | Mohammad Abdollahi, | Hanging | “Moharebeh” |
| 09/08 | Iran | Younes Teymouri, Seyed Razavizadeh, Jebreal Kanani, Kamran Pouraft, and Amir Azizi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 09/08 | Iran | M. R. | Hanging (p) | Rape & armed robbery |
| 10/08 | Iran | Fariborz Jalali and Gholamreza Arabderazi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 11/08 | Iran | Hossein Abdollahi | Hanging (p) | Murder |
| 11/08 | Iran | Abbas Tahmasebi | Hanging (p) | Murder |
| 13/08 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/08 | Somalia | Aydarus Dahir | Shooting | Murder |
| 14/08 | Iran | Hamidreza Roustasefat & Aydin Teimourzadeh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 16/08 | China | Huang Qingheng (f) | Injection | Child trafficking |
| 16/08 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 17/08 | Pakistan | Salman | Hanging | Murder |
| 17/08 | Iran | Ghais Obidawi, Ahmad Obidawi and Sajjad Balawi | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 17/08 | Iraq | 4 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 17/08 | Iran | 3 unnamed men | Hanging | Rape |
| 18/08 | Saudi Arabia | Hamed bin Mohammed bin Hussein al-Makhthala al-Qahtani | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/08 | Iran | M. P. & A. A. | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 18/08 | Iran | Reza Naruee | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/08 | South Sudan | 2 unnamed men | Shooting | Murder |
| 21/08 | Iraq | 36 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 21/08 | Iran | Saeed Beheshtifar | Hanging (p) | Multiple wounding |
| 21/08 | Iran | Habib Jamalhezi | Hanging | Drugs? |
| 22/08 | Iran | H. Gh., M. A., H. J., A. S. and A. M. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 24/08 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Maateq al-Dosari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 25/08 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/08 | Iran | 4 unnamed men & 1 woman | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/08 | Saudi Arabia | Waqyan bin Shaaf bin Hazae al-Dosari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 27/08 | Iran | Alireza Madadbour, Bahman Rezaei, Arman Bahrami, Alireza Asadi, Mohsen Eslami, Hossein Bayrami, Mehdi Rostami, Amir Sarkhah and Alireza Sarkhah & 3 unnamed men (12 total) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 29/08 | Saudi Arabia | Abdulrahman bin Qabih bin Maayedh al-Malki al-Bajali | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 30/08 | Saudi Arabia | Sultan bin Dhaifullah bin Sakhri al-Anzi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 31/08 | Iraq | 7 unnamed men | Hanging | Terrorism |
Executions in September 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for September 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| China | 5 |
| Iran | 64 |
| Iraq | 1 |
| Malaysia | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 8 |
78 men and 2 women were executed in September 2016
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/09 | Saudi Arabia | Ibrahim bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Asiri | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 03/09 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 03/09 | Iran | A. B. and J. P. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 03/09 | Bangladesh | Mir Quasem Ali | Hanging | War crimes |
| 08/09 | Iraq | Ahmad Husni Shwahneh | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 09/09 | China | Zhang Weilan, Zhao Jun, Zhang Chengyong, Xu Chengde and Yan Shiyong | Injection | Murder |
| 09/09 | Iran | Eynollah Mohammad Zadeh | Hanging | Drugs |
| 10/09 | Iran | Ghasem Daryanavard, Amin Bibaki, Khosro Badpa, Sattar Hoot, Mohammad Hanif Boop, Haroun Heykalnejad and Tareq Naraaj (7 men) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 11/09 | Iran | 17 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 13/09 | Iran | Sajjad A. and Goudarz A. | Hanging | Armed robbery |
| 13/09 | Iran | Khosrow H. | Hanging | Rape |
| 21/09 | Saudi Arabia | Aziz Ali Farzand Ali and Basharat al-Rahman Zarwal Khan | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 21/09 | Saudi Arabia | Hassan bin Jabran bin Ibrahim Faluq | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 22/09 | Iran | Saeed T. | Hanging (p) | Child murder |
| 22/09 | Iran | Hossein Arabahmadi and Rahmatali Saadatiar | Hanging | Drugs |
| 23/09 | Malaysia | Ahmad Najib Aris | Hanging | Murder |
| 24/09 | Iran | Abdolkarim Bapiri, Mehdi Molaie, Salah Ghaderian, and Ali Mohtabipour | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/09 | Iran | Javad Sanjehvali | Hanging | Drugs |
| 26/09 | Iran | Amir Behrouz | Hanging | Murder |
| 26/09 | Saudi Arabia | Zamzam Booraik (f) | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 27/09 | Iran | Khodabakhsh Balouch, Ali Balouch, Chaker Balouch, Mohammad Mohammad Zehi, Majid Nariman, Mehdi Moradi, Mohammad Ghourchizadeh (7 men) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/09 | Saudi Arabia | Saqr bin Shawi bin Meklhaf Al-Saadi Al-Sulbi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 28/09 | Iran | Karim Hatamzadeh | Hanging | Armed robbery |
| 28/09 | Iran | Ali Rabizadeh, Majid Gonjehali, Adnan Anwar, Hossein Karimi, Mohammad Jafari, Karim Hatamzadeh, Farajollah Hatami, and Mehdi Alizadeh (7 men) | Hanging | Murder |
| 29/09 | Iran | Behnam Pirkozadegan, Ismael Ayoubi, Karam Kolshi, Ghader Mahmoudi, Effendi Omri, Karim (Reza) Abdollahzadeh, Farhad Maleki, & Molouk Noori (f) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 29/09 | Saudi Arabia | Amjad Hussain Ashraf Shaf & Ayoub Khan Menqal Khan | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 30/09 | Iran | Mehdi N. | Hanging (p) | Rape/murder |
| 30/09 | China | Wang Yuefu | Injection? | Arson/murder |
Executions in October 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for October 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 2 |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| China | 1 |
| Iran | 28 |
| Saudi Arabia | 10 |
41 men and 1 woman were executed in October 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 03/10 | Saudi Arabia | Menahi bin Mohammed bin Menahi al-Saadi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 04/10 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Salman bin Suleiman al-Rahili | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 05/10 | America – Texas | Barney Fuller Jr. | Injection | Murder |
| 05/10 | Iran | 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 06/10 | Saudi Arabia | Mujahed Said Fazil Rahim | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 09/10 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Hadi bin Ali al-Aatef | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 12/10 | Saudi Arabia | Aayed bin Sahman bin Mazum al-Habladni al-Anzi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 16/10 | Bangladesh | Asadul Islam Arif | Hanging | Terrorism |
| 18/10 | Saudi Arabia | Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/10 | Saudi Arabia | Saad Al-Shimrani | Beheading (p) | Child rape |
| 19/10 | Iran | Abbas Karami, Hamid Saber, Hamid Babaie, Hamid Nazari, Peyman Sabalani, Ganjali Chekezadeh, Reza Sabzi, and Khodameli Pirzadeh + 6 unnamed. (14 men) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 19/10 | Iran | Fardin Slymanpnah | Hanging | Drugs |
| 19/10 | America – Georgia | Gregory Paul Lawler | Injection | Murder |
| 24/10 | Iran | Reza N, Muhammad Ali and Hashem P. + 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Rape |
| 24/10 | Iran | Hassan and Mohsen | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/10 | Iran | Saeed Pourhassan, Mehrshad Kalhori, and Milad Beigdeli + 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Drugs |
| 25/10 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Oqal bin Mahilan al-Shariri | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 26/10 | China | Li Xiuling (f) | Injection | Murder |
| 26/10 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Ali bin Ahmed bin Musa Asiri | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 27/10 | Saudi Arabia | Nawaf bin Hamed bin Salem al-Hamali | Beheading (p) | Murder |
Executions in November 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for November 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 1 |
| Belarus | 3 |
| China | 1 |
| Iran | 41 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Pakistan | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 12 |
| Singapore | 2 |
60 men and 1 woman were executed in November 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 01/11 | Iran | Sami Mamedi & I. Hamid | Hanging | Drugs |
| 02/11 | Iran | Farhad Mansouri, Shoaib Hatami, and Darvish Monzemi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 04/11 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Murder |
| 05/11 | Iran | A. Y., K. Y. & 2 unnamed men Aref Alinasb | Hanging | Drugs Murder |
| c 05/11 | Belarus (3 executions in November) | Ivan Kulesh, Hyanadz Yakavitski & Siarhei Khmialeuski | Shooting | Murder |
| 07/11 | Iran | Rahim Mohammad-Pour & Mehdi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 07/11 | Iran | Hassan Kh. | Hanging | Murder |
| 09/11 | Saudi Arabia | Akram Ali Hussein al-Aaqel | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 10/11 | Iran | Mostafa K. | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 10/11 | Iran | Gomshadzehi, Ranjbar and Faramarzpour + 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder & drugs |
| 10/11 | Saudi Arabia | Ornan bin Fahghush bin Ornan al-Jaligham al-Qahtani and Talal Abdullah Mohammed al-Handi (2) | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 11/11 | Japan | Kenichi Tajiri | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/11 | Iran | 1 unnamed man 2 unnamed men | Hanging | Murder Drugs |
| 13/11 | Iran | Karam Gholizadeh, Mahkoom Ayjak, Aref Esmaeili, Nasser Hosseini, Farrokh Abdini & Javad Asghari (6 men) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 14/11 | Saudi Arabia | Abdulhafiz Hamed | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 15/11 | China | Jia Jinglong | Injection | Murder |
| 16/11 | Saudi Arabia | Farhan bin Salem bin Salem al-Nikhaifi al-Malki | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 16/11 | America – Georgia | Steven Frederick Spears | Injection | Murder |
| 17/11 | Saudi Arabia | Mohammed bin Manem bin Hussein al-Mahri al-Yami | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 18/11 | Singapore | Chijoke Stephen Obioha & Devendran Supramaniam | Hanging | Drugs |
| 18/11 | Saudi Arabia | Munira bint Zuweid Al-Hadhli (f) | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 22/11 | Iran | Mehdi Shamsinejad | Hanging | Drugs |
| 23/11 | Iran | 4 unnamed men | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 23/11 | Iran | Shabaan Ranjbar & Gholam Hossein Beygi | Hanging | Murder |
| 23/11 | Saudi Arabia | Nawaf bin Ayed bin Awadh al-Baqami | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 24/11 | Iran | Jamshid Tahami, Mohsen Jamali, Yasser Kavyani, Davoud Totalzehi and Asef Mohammad Saeedpour (5) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 24/11 | Pakistan | Ehsan Ullah | Hanging | Murder |
| 29/11 | Saudi Arabia | Abadel Mohammed Maqbul Khuri and Ahmed Ali Yahya al-Wassabi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 30/11 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah bin Jawdallah bin Abdullah al-Hanitti and Ahmed bin Osaf bin Salim al-Attawi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
Executions in December 2016
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported for December 2016.
| Country | No. of executions |
| America (USA) | 2 |
| China | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Iran | 29 |
| Nigeria | 3 |
| Pakistan | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 5 |
42 men were executed in December 2016.
| Date | Country | Name | Method | Crime |
| 04/12 | Iran | Nemat Rahman Garmi | Hanging | Murder |
| 06/12 | America – Georgia | William Sallie | Injection | Murder |
| 06/12 | Iran | Ali Akbar Karami | Hanging | Murder |
| 07/12 | Iran | Ali Chartagh & K. N. | Hanging | Drugs |
| 08/12 | Saudi Arabia | al-Fadie bin Shafi bin Maslem al-Dosari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 08/12 | America – Alabama | Ronald Smith | Injection | Murder |
| 11/12 | Saudi Arabia | Hassan bin Ali bin Ibrahim al-Qasemi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 11/12 | Iran | Abdullah al-Ghaffari, Hassan Sheikh, Mansoor Mozaffari, Akbar Aslani, Sayed Hosseini, Arash Azarmi, Hossein Karami,-Mostafa, Sharif Hatami (10 men) | Hanging | Murder |
| 13/12 | Saudi Arabia | Awadh bin Maayedh bin Saad al-Ghawari | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 14/12 | Iran | Mohammad Beheshti | Hanging | Drugs |
| 15/12 | Egypt | Adel Habara | Hanging | Murder |
| 15/12 | Iran | Behzad Lazemi, Mostafa Gholami, Fardin Sabzi, Mehdi Kaeni and Saeed Faramarzi (5 men) | Hanging | Drugs |
| 15/12 | Iran | Behzad Salimkord | Hanging | Drugs |
| 15/12 | Saudi Arabia | Nazel bin Hizam bin Nasser al-Mutairi | Beheading (p) | Drugs |
| 19/12 | Saudi Arabia | Majid bin Abdulla bin Humood Al-Otaibi | Beheading (p) | Murder |
| 20/12 | Iran | Allahnoor Daroonpoor and Nasser Barahuee & 1 unnamed man | Hanging | Drugs |
| 22/12 | Iran | 1 unnamed man | Hanging (p) | Rape |
| 23/12 | China | Ma Yongping | Injection | Arson/Murder |
| 23/12 | Nigeria | Ogbomoro Omoregie, Apostle Igene and Mark Omosowhota | Hanging | Murder & armed robbery |
| 24/12 | Pakistan | Mohammad Bilal | Hanging | Murder |
| 25/12 | Iran | Valiallah Rashnov and Ghodrat Ebrahimi | Hanging | Drugs |
| 27/12 | Iran | Khaled Jowhari | Hanging | Drugs |
| 28/12 | Iran | Rashid Jawad | Hanging | Drugs |
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