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AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on August 21
Abdol Sabzi, Shamsollah Kheiri, Mehdi Kazemi
AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolamir Hasangol executed in Dezful on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Osat Akbari executed in Buin Zahra on August 21
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehsa Akbari executed in Shiraz on August 20
One day after her husband’s public execution
AUGUST 20, 2025Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: JUNTA IMPOSES DEATH SENTENCE TO CRUSH ELECTION DISSENT
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlain has imposed harsh new punishments for disrupting his planned December election – including the death penalty – as the regime seeks to crush dissent ahead of the vote.
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Hamegan and Hossein Mokhtari executed in Rasht on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES HARAMCAD OFFICER TO DEATH FOR KILLING UNARMED CIVILIAN
A Somali military court on August 2, 2025 sentenced a former officer from the Haram'ad special police unit to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of murdering an unarmed day labourer in a brazen, unprovoked shooting that has reignited public de
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Karimi and Taleb Rikani executed in Isfahan on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on August 20
Hossein Karimi, Reza Abbasi, Taleb Reikani, Morteza Sayvand.
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mohammad Faroughi executed in Qorveh on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naghi Shahi executed in Tabriz on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mokhtar Fazeli executed in Ahvaz on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Paul Kendrick, 30, Black, sentenced to death
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vali-Karam Jaberi executed in Qazvin on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naghi Shahi and Yashar Lejehi executed in Tabriz on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Sayvand and Reza Abbasi executed in Isfahan on August 20
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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - State TV Airs Forced Confessions of Christian Converts
- 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