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AUGUST 19, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 17 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN THREE DAYS
Saudi authorities put two people to death on August 4, 2025 to reach 17 in three days, state media said, as the conservative kingdom accelerated towards a record number of executions this year.
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Molayi Hakani executed in public on August 19
IHR considers it particularly serious that children witness hangings.
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Hassan Kahrazehi, Abedin Kahrazehi, Milad Narouyi
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Zeinali executed in Arak on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hafiz Siahkhani executed in Iranshahr on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Kayle Bates, 67, Black, was executed
State’s 10th execution of 2025
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Safarali Keyfari, Milad Narouei + Unk.
AUGUST 19, 2025IllinoisDEATH PENALTYUSA - Illinois. Robert Melock, sentenced to death in 1989, obtains a “certificate of innocence” from the court
After 34 years of incarceration. Exoneree n. 201
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Arjangi executed in Ardabil on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Joghatay executed in Sabzevar on August 19
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davood Kashani executed in Hamedan on August 18
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Omidi-Moghadam and Iman Jouzi executed in Khorramabad on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Sedghi and Arash Mahjour executed in Isfahan on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Ghasemi executed in Amol on August 18
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Ahvaz on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Younesi and Mehdi Najafi executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Rahimzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Soheili and Nader Sepahdar executed in Mashhad on August 17
AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a political prisoner, has been upheld
By the Supreme Court
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Sadeghi executed in Rasht on August 16
AUGUST 16, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - It is increasingly clear that the Guantanamo trials are impossible
The families of the victims are now resigned to this fact
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Fathi and Siamand Sa’adati executed in Sari on August 16
- AUGUST 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Esfandiari executed in Hamedan on August 13
AUGUST 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Bazmandegan and Mohammad Kashifi executed in Shiraz
On security-related charges
- AUGUST 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Yousefi and Omid Azizian executed in Mashhad on August 6
- AUGUST 12, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - North Carolina. 5 men convicted 20 years ago for murder acquitted
Nathaniel and Rayshawn Banner, Christopher Bryant, Jermal Tolliver, and Dorrell Brayboy
- AUGUST 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Sarlak executed in Dezful on August 12
- AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khamenei orders destruction of victims’ graves
To cover up evidence of the 1988 Massacre
AUGUST 11, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Business Leader Calls for End to “Broken” Death Penalty System
Matthew Stepka, on behalf of a coalition of over 500 business leaders