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JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Female Prisoners in Evin
Report on 76 female political and security prisoners
JANUARY 29, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Death Penalty in 2024
New Monthly Podcast from the DPIC
JANUARY 29, 2025ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE BEGINS RESENTENCING OF DEATH ROW INMATES AFTER ABOLISHING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Zimbabwe has started the process of resentencing prisoners who were on death row after officially abolishing the death penalty, the Global South World reported on January 22, 2025.
JANUARY 29, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: IHC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF TWO CONVICTS TO LIFE TERM IN OSAMA SATTI MURDER CASE
The Islamabad High Court on January 22, 2025 commuted the death sentence of two convicts in Osama Satti murder case to life imprisonment and acquitting three others.
- JANUARY 28, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER SEPARATE DEADLY KNIFE ATTACKS
Two men were sentenced to death on January 24, 2025 for separate deadly stabbings in China.
JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 53rd Week of Hunger Strikes in 34 Prisons
Year 2 of “No to Execution Tuesdays”
JANUARY 28, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STABBING FRIEND OVER PHONE CHARGER
A High Court in Bauchi State has sentenced Usman Abdullahi to death by hanging for the murder of Zaidu Adamu Kofar Dumi.
JANUARY 28, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Texas executions decline, but death penalty system remains flawed
Robert Roberson’s case is reason enough for pause
JANUARY 28, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Lawmakers Pass Mandatory Death Penalty Bill (SB 2-B)
JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Radmand executed in Rasht “about a month ago”
information received by Hengaw on Feb. 28
JANUARY 28, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDRC: MILITARY COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF MILITARY EXPERT
Congo's military court of appeal on January 27, 2025 confirmed the death sentence previously imposed on Belgian Jean-Jacques Wondo, La Libre writes.
JANUARY 27, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - International Appeal to save Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
Two political prisoners whoi coulod be executed within hours
JANUARY 27, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 4 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
A Pakistani court on January 25, 2025 sentenced four people to death for blasphemy
- JANUARY 27, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS DEATH SENTENCES IN DRC AND VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL
The European Parliament on January 23, 2025 adopted a resolution by a show of hands regarding the respect for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
- JANUARY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO SAVE BEHROUZ EHSANI AND MEHDI HASSANI
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 26
Farzad Mirzaei, Farhad Ferdini, and Samad Hashemi
JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Jahangiri executed in Malayer on January 26
Already 81 executions in 2025
JANUARY 25, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Singapore carried out on January 23, 2025 the hanging of a convicted drug trafficker.
JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojjat Panahi executed in Rasht on January 25
JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran accuses EU of ‘meddling’ after parliament condemned death penalties
- JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Aminnejad and Ebrahim … executed on January 25
In Shiraz and Nishapur
JANUARY 24, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Texas Death Penalty Declining in Use — 2024 in Review
JANUARY 24, 2025MontanaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Montana. Death penalty bill HB 205 moves forward in Legislature
JANUARY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amjad Amini, Jina Amini's father, accused of "Propaganda against the state"
For supporting Pakhshan Azizi
JANUARY 24, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Former death row prisoners may be heading to Florence, Colorado
The ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’
JANUARY 23, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MAN CONVICTED OF TRAFFICKING CHILDREN
A higher court on January 21, 2025 upheld the death sentence for Wang Haowen, who was convicted of trafficking children.
JANUARY 23, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG 10 PEOPLE IN KHOST AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS PERSIST
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that 10 individuals, including one woman, were publicly whipped in Khost province on January 22, 2025, charged with “adultery,” “sodomy,” “illicit relations,” and “running away from home.”
JANUARY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - EU Parliament adopts resolution condemning Iran's use of death penalty
JANUARY 23, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. De facto death penalty
277 died within prison walls in 2024
- JANUARY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - European Parliament calls to end Iran's 'hostage diplomacy'
A resolution condemning Iran’s detention of European Union citizens