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FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Ahmadi and Saeed Gholami executed in Kermanshah on February 5
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IRAN - Salman Hamdard executed in Borujerd on February 5
FEBRUARY 4, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: ELEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER AFTER 20 YEARS
Eleven accused who stood indicted with murder were found guilty and sentenced to death by Uva Province High Court Judge Prasanna Alwis, Daily Mirror reported on January 31, 2025.
FEBRUARY 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHATTOGRAM FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE OVER DOWRY
A Chattogram court on February 3, 2025 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife, who was pregnant at the time, over conflict centring dowry.
FEBRUARY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Monthly report on women’s rights
20 women activists arrested, three sentenced, 18 women killed
FEBRUARY 3, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - List of the 26 death sentences of 2024
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Fallah has been sentenced to death
A Gilak political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in Rasht
FEBRUARY 3, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH PENALTY IN DOUBLE MURDER COMMUTED TO LIFE SENTENCE
The Taichung branch of the High Court on January 22, 2025 overturned Yang Hung-ju’s death penalty and sentenced him to life in prison for double homicide.
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced that the Central Criminal Court has sentenced nine Iraqi drug traffickers to death after convicting them of smuggling and distributing illicit substances across the country, Kurdistan24 reported on January 29, 202
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafez Bani Asadi executed in Mashhad on February 3
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hasani transferred to political prisoners’ ward
Following extensive domestic and international protests
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IRAN - Hamidreza Shahmoradi executed in Khorramabad on February 3
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. House Justice Committee passes firing squad (HB 37)
As main death penalty method
FEBRUARY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Amiri executed in Kermanshah on February 2
FEBRUARY 2, 2025South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: SUDANESE TRADER HANGED FOR DEFILEMENT AND MURDER
A Sudanese trader who was convicted of defiling, murdering, and dumping the body of five-year-old Abuk Lual into a pit latrine in Aweil in 2022 was executed by hanging in South Sudan on January 29, 2025 at Wau Central Prison.
FEBRUARY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A letter from a brave female prisoner
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 87 executions in January
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Kaviani executed in Khorramabad on February 1
a Lor woman from Khorramabad
FEBRUARY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Jamshidi executed in Sari on February 1
JANUARY 31, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Marion Bowman, 44, Black, was executed
First execution in the US of the new year
JANUARY 31, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Death row population decreased by 63 in 2024
Without any executions
JANUARY 30, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED AFTER CONVICTED ON TERROR CHARGES
Saudi Arabia said on January 28, 2025 it had executed a citizen convicted on terror charges including attacking security forces.
JANUARY 30, 2025MontanaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Montana. House narrowly rejects bill intended to allow death penalty to resume
HB 205
JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Zaboli executed in Yasuj on January 30
JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Calls for the Revocation of 6 Political Prisoners’ Death Penalty
Babak Alipour, Vahid Baniamerian, Pouya Ghobadi, Abolhassan Montazer and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi
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IRAN - Mehdi Salehzadeh and Abdollah Khademi executed in Isfahan on January 30
JANUARY 30, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 22-YEAR-OLD JAMIU SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING SEX WORKER
An Abeokuta High Court on January 22, 2025 sentenced 22-year-old Jamiu Malomo to death by hanging for stabbing a sex worker to death.
JANUARY 29, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death Penalty Documentary Nominated for Academy Award
“I am Ready, Warden”
JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz
Hamid Fanaei, Amir Fanaei, Rasoul Minaei, Khosrow Abbaszadeh, and Mohammad Ali Heidari
JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Female Prisoners in Evin
Report on 76 female political and security prisoners