Execution

Iran executes another man accused of spying for Israel's Mossad

Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed many people it has accused of having links with the Israeli intelligence service and facilitating its operations in the country.

JANUARY 28, 2026|ByREUTERS

An image from a Women, Life, Freedom protest in Washington, DC in 2023.

A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014.

Iran says two Islamic State‑linked men executed for 2023 bus bombing

The Iranian judiciary said the attack killed a toddler and injured several others on a bus traveling from Tehran to Ilam, a province in the west that borders Iraq.

JANUARY 24, 2026|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Iranian Basiji men carry a hanging noose attached to a banner that reads "the Execution Verdict of Netanyahu and Other Zionist Regime Leaders Must be Issued" during a parade of an alleged 110,000 paramilitary Basij and IRGC forces in downtown Tehran, Iran, on January 10, 2026.

Iran disputes claim that Trump stopped over 800 executions, say none were scheduled - report

"I stopped 837 hangings on Thursday," Trump told the press on Friday morning. "And I said, 'if you hang those people, you're gonna be hit harder than you've ever been hit.'"

JANUARY 23, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

A woman is holding a sign with the portrait of a man condemned to death by hanging and the slogan No to Execution in Paris in France on January 18, 2026

Executions in Iran soared in 2025 as regime used killings as 'tool of intimidation,' UN says

Human rights groups warned the regime stepped up executions in response to the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests, which erupted in response to the regime’s murder of Mahsa Amini.

JANUARY 20, 2026|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Hamas celebrates UN call for probe into alleged IDF abuses of Palestinian women

The UN statement reported allegations that Palestinian women and girls had been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, frequently along with family members, including children.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024BySAM HALPERN

Palestinian women sit at the debris of a house destroyed in an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip November 13, 2019

Iran executes four people it claims are linked to Israeli intelligence

The defendants were accused of illegally entering Iranian territory from Iraq's Kurdistan region to carry out a bombing operation.

JANUARY 29, 2024ByREUTERS

(L-R) Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Alabama completes first execution using nitrogen gas asphyxiation

Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, was a rare prisoner who had already survived one execution attempt.

JANUARY 26, 2024ByREUTERS

The gate at Holman Correctional Facility is monitored by law enforcement before the scheduled execution by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen of Kenneth Smith who is convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, in Atmore, Alabama, U.S. January 25, 2024.

'He took to the streets for you!': Iranian protester executed by regime

Qobadlou was sentenced to death in late 2022, in the middle of the protests, on charges of killing a police officer and of "corruption on earth."

JANUARY 22, 2024ByTZVI JOFFRE

Mohammad Qobadlou, 22, an Iranian whom the regime is set to execute for participation in a protest.

UN experts sound alarm over planned first US execution by nitrogen gas

Kenneth Smith, convicted of murder, is scheduled to be executed in the state of Alabama on January 25 using nitrogen hypoxia.

JANUARY 3, 2024ByREUTERS

Iran says it executes four 'saboteurs' linked to Israel's Mossad

IRNA state news said their mission entailed kidnappings, threatening and setting fire to vehicles and homes of unnamed targets and stealing their mobile phones.

DECEMBER 29, 2023ByREUTERS