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JULY 24, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYKENYAN MAN ON DEATH ROW IN SAUDI ARABIA FREED
A Kenyan man on death row in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade has been released after a lengthy campaign to save him from execution, a Kenyan foreign affairs ministry official has said.
JULY 24, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINESE ENTERTAINER ZHANG YIYANG EXECUTED FOR MURDERING 16-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND
Chinese entertainer Zhang Yiyang, accused of murdering his 16-year-old girlfriend in 2022, was executed on December 18 in 2024, according to a detailed investigation report recently released by the Intermediate People's Court of Xianyang in North Shaanxi
JULY 23, 2025ArkansasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arkansas. Death penalty for child rapists law goes in to effect in August
JULY 23, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT ACQUITS 12 MEN IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBINGS THAT KILLED 187
A court in India has acquitted 12 men who had been convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings that killed 187 people and injured more than 800.
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houshang Mahmoudian executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ruhollah Arab executed in Semnan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ronald Tabak, a pillar of the fight against the death penalty in the United States, has died
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Heydari executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Heydari Tarkashvand executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 23
Behzad Gholamzadeh, Latif Karegar, Saman Heydari
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jabbar Alishahi and Ashkan Mahdipanah executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Samalpour Baba Ahmadi executed in Yazd on July 23
JULY 22, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Less Restrictive Conditions for Some on Death Row
JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Khorrami executed in Kermanshah on July 22
- JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Afrayi Mardakheh executed in Rasht on July 22
- JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Parsa executed in Aligudarz on July 22
JULY 22, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SENATE PASSES BILL TO END DEATH PENALTY FOR KEY OFFENCES
A bill seeking to abolish the death penalty for harbouring hijackers and for publicly stripping a woman of her clothes was passed on July 18, 2025 by the Senate amidst voices of dissent from both sides of the aisle.
JULY 21, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN 1993 MURDER
An 80-year-old woman who had been sentenced to death in Sri Lanka by the Hambantota High Court for a 1993 murder was acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal on July 18, 2025 bringing an end to a 32-year legal battle.
JULY 21, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO MURDER ACCUSED
Gujrat district and sessions judge awarded the death sentence to a murder accused and also imposed a fine of Rs0.5 million.
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodabakhsh Sepehri executed in Rasht on July 21
JULY 21, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Do all victims’ family members support the death penalty?
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 unidentified prisoners executed in Yazd on July 21
JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 9 men executed in in Yazd on July 21
Atefeh Amini, Reza Akhiri, Ali Momeni, Bahram Seyed Nasiri, Amirhossein Hassan Khani (Hassankhani), Farkhreddin Raei and four unidentified men
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Zare executed in Arak on July 21
JULY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executred in Zahedan on July 20
Abdoljalil Dorakzehi, Nematollah Shahnavazi, Nasir Shahbakhsh, ... Ghaljayi and two unidentified men
JULY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 political prisoners sentenced to death
JULY 19, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY TALIBAN COURT OVER ALLEGED BLASPHEMY
A Taliban court in Afghanistan’s Paktika province has sentenced a man to death on charges of blasphemy, according to a spokesperson for the group.
- JULY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davoud Amani executed in Zanjan on July 19
JULY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Sarlak executed in Aligudarz on July 19
- JULY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Ahmadkhani executed in Aligudarz on July 19