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FEBRUARY 12, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. House passes HB 49
Death penalty for child rapists
FEBRUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Kakavand executed in Malayer on February 12
FEBRUARY 11, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING COUPLE DURING HOUSE ROBBERY
Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Hafeez Lashari, who conducted the trial at the judicial complex inside the central prison, Karachi, found Nawaz Khursheed guilty of murdering an elderly couple, Jawed Iftikhar and Salma, in their DHA Ph
FEBRUARY 11, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 BNP LEADERS RELEASED FROM RAJSHAHI JAIL
Four Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders, who were acquitted from the death penalty by the High Court recently, were released from Rajshahi jail on February 11, 2025.
FEBRUARY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 55th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
Hunger strike in in 35 Prisons Across Iran
FEBRUARY 10, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SC RAPS COPS FOR ‘FAULTY PROBE’, ACQUITS MAN ON DEATH ROW
The Supreme Court of India has set aside death penalty awarded to an Agra man who was earlier convicted for murder of his brother, sister-in-law and four children in a property dispute case in 2012, Times of India reported on February 10, 2025.
FEBRUARY 10, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG SEVEN IN THREE PROVINCES
Taliban publicly flogged seven people in Kunduz, Uruzgan and Ghazni provinces on charges of extramarital relations and assault, according to Taliban supreme court statements on February 10, 2025.
FEBRUARY 10, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Executions to resume, Gov. Jeff Landry announces
After 15 years
FEBRUARY 10, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Kevin Burns, the death row inmate who celebrates mass on death row
Burns is an evangelical pastor
FEBRUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Manafzadeh and Farhad Abdoli executed in Tabriz on February 9
FEBRUARY 9, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. The Baptist church alongside the victims, not the culprits
The case of Steven Nelson who had killed a Baptist pastor
FEBRUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pejman Soltani sentenced to death
Kurdish political prisoner, arrested during the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” movement
FEBRUARY 9, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYAFRICAN COURT ORDERS TANZANIA TO END MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ruled against Tanzania’s mandatory imposition of the death penalty, calling it a violation of fundamental human rights.
FEBRUARY 8, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: TWO CITIZENS EXECUTED ON 'TERRORISM' CHARGES
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced on February 5, 2025 that two citizens had been executed after being convicted of “betraying the nation and supporting terrorism.”
FEBRUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Rezaei executed in Zanjan on February 8
FEBRUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On February 8, a woman who partially undressed on a street in Tehran was arrested
The arrest of three other individuals in connection with the incident
FEBRUARY 7, 2025North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Hasson Bacote's death sentence overturned ‘on racial grounds’
Other cases may follow
FEBRUARY 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Sept. 11 Plea Deal Includes Gag Order on C.I.A. Torture Secrets
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. House widely passes bill to make firing squad main execution method
The House approved HB 37 on a 58-11 vote
FEBRUARY 6, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Demetrius Frazier, 52, Black, was executed
By nitrogen hypoxia
FEBRUARY 6, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 'WITCHCRAFT' MURDER
Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of witchcraft, BBC News reported on February 4, 2025.
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi is at imminent risk of execution
After her appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Mahtab Ghazizadeh, executed in Sari on February 6
265 women have been executed in Iran since 2007
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYFRENCHMAN ATLAOUI RETURNS TO PARIS AFTER REPRIEVE FROM DEATH ROW IN INDONESIA
A Frenchman reprieved after 18 years on death row in Indonesia for alleged drug offences landed back in France on February 5, 2025, an airport source said.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS MUMBAI RAPE-MURDER CASE CONVICT ON DEATH ROW SINCE 2015
The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a man who had been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in 2014.
FEBRUARY 5, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Steven Nelson, 37, Black, was executed
FEBRUARY 5, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: EX-POLICE OFFICER HANGED FOR DOUBLE MURDER
A former policeman who was convicted over the murder of two people in 2013 was executed in Singapore on February 5, 2025.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama - House committee approves death penalty for child sexual assault
HB 49
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Golmohammad Gorgij and Abdulhamid Kohkan executed in Gorgan on January 5
FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Ahmadi and Saeed Gholami executed in Kermanshah on February 5