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JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Third man executed in Khorrambad on January 16
Mohammad Amiri-Bahravand
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Zeinabi and Saman Davoudian executed in Khorramabad on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saiwan Yaqoubi executed in Sanandaj on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Department of Justice Withdraws Federal Execution Protocol
And Keeps Moratorium on Executions in Place
JANUARY 16, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN EXECUTES DEATH ROW INMATE CONVICTED IN 2013 MURDERS
Taiwan on January 16, 2025 executed a death row inmate convicted in a 2013 double murder, marking the country's first execution since President Lai Ching-te took office last year.
JANUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on January 15
Farrokh Nasiri, Mansour Qolizadeh, and Payam Cheraghi
JANUARY 15, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MURDERER OF MALAYSIAN STUDENT
The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch on January 15, 2025 upheld a death sentence for a man found guilty of raping and murdering a Malaysian student in a retrial.
JANUARY 15, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ORISSA HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF 9 TO LIFE SENTENCE
The Orissa High Court on January 15, 2025 commuted the death sentences of nine individuals to life imprisonment in connection with a 2016 triple murder case.
JANUARY 14, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Agofsky and Davis can't legally object to Biden's death row commutations
DOJ argues
JANUARY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - French Citizen Olivier Grondeau Imprisoned in Iran
3rd Frenche citized deteined in Iran on vague charges
JANUARY 14, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PESHAWAR HIGH COURT BLOCKS DEPORTATION OF OVER 100 AFGHAN MUSICIANS
The Peshawar High Court on January 10, 2025 issued an order preventing the forced deportation of more than 100 Afghan musicians who have sought political asylum in Pakistan, according to local media reports.
JANUARY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 51st week of the “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign
Hunger strikes in 34 female and male prisons
JANUARY 13, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF EX-LORRY DRIVER CONVICTED OF RAPE-CUM-MURDER OF ELDERLY WOMAN COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS IMPRISONMENT
A former lorry driver who murdered an 85-year-old woman after raping and sodomising her in 2019 has his death sentence commuted to 40 years in prison by the Federal Court on January 13, 2025.
JANUARY 13, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN, SON AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING RELATIVE, HIS DAUGHTER OVER ‘HONOUR’
Jamshoro’s additional sessions court on January 10, 2025 sentenced a man and his son to death after they were found guilty of murdering a young woman and her father in the name of honour.
JANUARY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHRS Year-End report. Iran Executed More than 1000 in 2024.
JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Fallah executed in Semnan on January 12
- JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Pouya Asgari executed in Arak on January 12
JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italy releases Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi
Iranian national detained on terrorism charges
JANUARY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pakhshan Azizi is one step away from execution
JANUARY 10, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal judge delays 9/11 deals
Some victims' family members criticize Biden's lack of “political” courage
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYDRC: AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCE 170 PRISONERS TO BE EXECUTED
More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said.
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Samad Najar-Asl executed in Isfahan on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - List of 54 Political and Security Prisoners on Death Row
JANUARY 9, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SENTENCED TO DEATH AS MINOR, MAN SET FREE AFTER 23 YEARS
The Supreme Court of India on January 8, 2025 set free a minor offender, more than 23 years after he was sentenced to death by an Uttarakhand court in a murder case
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 9
Behrouz Ghasemi, Houshang Shahi, Samad Najjar Asl
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Norouzi executed in Qom on January 9
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IRAN - Sixth execution reported in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on Jan. 8
An unidentified Afghan
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ashna (Noutizehi) executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 938 in 2024
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Baoo Dieselabadi executed in Sari on January 8