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JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Khoshkalam executed in Rasht on July 10
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six Months On, No Word From Detained British Couple in Iran
Craig and Lindsay Foreman
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qom on July 10
JULY 10, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA HAS NOW EXECUTED MORE THAN 100 FOREIGNERS THIS YEAR
Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death on July 10, 2025, pushing this year’s number of foreigners executed past 100 – a spike in capital punishment that human rights groups have strongly condemned.
JULY 10, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mid-Year Review: New Death Sentences Low, Increase in Executions
Death Penalty Information Center analysis
JULY 9, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING ENTIRE FAMILY
A man who murdered four members of his own family to free them from poverty has been sentenced to death by a Hanoi court on July 8, 2025.
JULY 9, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER SENIOR POLITICAL ADVISOR OF XINJIANG HANDED DEATH SENTENCE WITH REPRIEVE FOR BRIBERY
Dou Wangui, a former senior political advisor of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was sentenced on July 7, 2025 to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes.
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in public in Miandoab
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Shokripour Executed in Karaj on July 9
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadali Mahdinejad executed in Navahand on July 9
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolhossein Jaberi and Saeed Mehrabi executed in Karaj Central on July 9
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Mansouri executed in Malayer on July 9
JULY 9, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Catholic Church and capital punishment in the United States
Austin Sarat, Amherst College (Massachusetts)
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Tayeb Abdollahi and Naser Kazemzadeh executed in Shiraz on July 9
JULY 8, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: SENIOR CITIZEN ACQUITTED OF MURDER, ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE
A senior citizen was acquitted and discharged by the Court of Appeal on July 7, 2025, setting aside his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his disabled stepsister-in-law six years ago.
- JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Rahmani executed in Ahvaz on July 8
JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 76th Week of No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign
In 47 Prisons Across Iran
JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on July 8
Alireza Bagheri, Mehran Habibi and Esmail Valipour
JULY 8, 2025BahrainDEATH PENALTYBAHRAIN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR OVER PERSONAL DISPUTE IN SHAKHURA
The First High Criminal Court has sentenced a man to death for fatally stabbing his neighbour in the Shakhura area, News of Bahrain reported on July 8, 2025.
JULY 8, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - ACLU Report Shows How Death Penalty Jury Selection Discriminates
Against Black Americans, Women, and People of Faith
JULY 7, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SIX MEMBERS OF A FAMILY
The IV additional district and sessions court in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) on June 27, 2025 sentenced 50-year-old Battina Appalaraju to death for killing six members of a family, including two children, in a revenge killing in April 2021.
JULY 7, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 4 TO LIFE TERM IN JHENAIDAH
A Jhenaidah court on July 7, 2025 sentenced four people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing Sub-Inspector (SI) Mirajul Islam in 2011.
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Yarbigi executed in Arak on July 7
JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 kurdish political prisoners sentenced to death
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Khosravi and Saeed Asadzadeh Executed in Tabriz on July 7
JULY 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ryan Cole formally sentenced to death
JULY 5, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Interesting controversy after the non-condemnation to death of Bryan Kohberger
- JULY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - UN Experts Warn Iran Against Renewed Wave of Repression After Ceasefire
JULY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris transferred to an undisclosed location
The French couple at the centre of yet another kidnapping by Iran
JULY 3, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR EX-MILITARY DOCTOR IN KEVIN MORAIS MURDER CASE
The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence imposed on former military doctor R Kunaseegaran over the murder of deputy public prosecutor Kevin Morais 10 years ago, FMT reported on July 1st, 2025.