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SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Kermanshah on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Mahi-Dashti executed in Kerman on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025LaosDEATH PENALTYLAOS: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR METH TRAFFICKING
The Xayabouly Provincial People’s Court on August 27,2025 sentenced a 29-year-old man to death after convicting him of trafficking methamphetamine and crystal meth. The ruling became public on 30 August.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: SIX FLOGGED IN KABUL AS TALIBAN INTENSIFY PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS
The Taliban on August 30, 2025 publicly flogged six people in the Afghan capital after convicting them of drug‑related offenses, the group’s Supreme Court said.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ASSAM MAN, WHO KILLED WOMAN FOR REFUSING TO MARRY HIM, SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court in Assam's Dhemaji on August 21, 2025 sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of a college student in 2021.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDRC: MILITARY PROSECUTOR SEEKS DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT KABILA
A military prosecutor on August 21, 2025 demanded the death penalty for DR Congo's former president Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia on treason charges.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirza Gholikhani executed in Rasht on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Abbaspour executed in Sanandaj on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Yavari executed in Hamedan on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Delavari and Armin Reyhani executed in Shiraz on August 31
950 executions since the beginning of 2025
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soleiman Koushki executed in Karaj on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on August 31
160 executions in August
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Nouri executed in Arak on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Urmia on August 31
Javad Ali, Rahman Javan, and Morteza Zichi
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmaeil Delavar and Arman Reyhani executed in Shiraz on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Nowruzi executed in Arak on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Emad Ghaedi executed in Borazjan on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amar Hassani executed in Ahvaz on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rostam Shokrollahi executed in Taybad on August 31
169 executions in August
- AUGUST 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Kakavand and Ahmadali Mehripour executed in Karaj on August 30
AUGUST 29, 2025UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Ralph Menzies will not be executed on Sept. 5
- AUGUST 28, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
Tanzania - Free Tundu Lissu
The leader of Chadema is on death row: who will save the man who dreams of a different Tanzania?
AUGUST 28, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING CHILD
A Cox's Bazar court on August 26, 2025 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Moheshkhali upazila in 2022.
AUGUST 28, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Curtis Windom, 59, Black, was executed
30th execution this year in the US, Florida’s 11th
AUGUST 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Banoo Moghadam executed in Abhar on August 28
32nd woman executed in 2025
- AUGUST 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Raoufi executed in Karaj on August 28
AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in Karaj on August 27
Faramarz Shahbazi, Mashallah Nikoufal, Ahmadali Mehripour, Kazem Fatemi, Fereydoun Mohammadi, Hossein Biabani, Hesam Mohammadi, Ahmad Yousefi
AUGUST 27, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER HAINAN SENIOR OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
Liu Xingtai, a former senior official from Hainan province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on for accepting bribes totaling more than 316 million yuan ($43.4 million), a court announced on August 26, 2025.
AUGUST 27, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS REJECTION OF DEATH ROW INMATE RETRIAL REQUEST
Taiwan's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by death row inmate Cheng Yi-lung, confirming an earlier Taiwan High Court decision to deny his request for a retrial, CNA reported on August 27, 2025.
- AUGUST 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Ali Lashari executed in Isfahan on August 27