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MAY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Tahmas Jahaniyan executed in Nahavand on May 24
- MAY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hessam Farhadi executed in Borujerd on May 24
- MAY 22, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Gov. DeSantis signs expansive capital punishment legislation into law
- MAY 22, 2025United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS - Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 58th session
MAY 22, 2025JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: SSC HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE, MULTIPLE PRISON TERMS OVER DEADLY ATTACK ON POLICE PATROL
The State Security Court (SSC) on May 19, 2025 issued a death sentence and multiple prison terms over a 2022 attack that claimed the lives of four security officers and wounded several others.
MAY 22, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Oscar Smith, 75, White, was executed on May 22, 2025
19th execution in the US in 2025
MAY 22, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Governor Scott ratified SB 599, which allows for the sentencing to death of child sex offenders
It will go into effect on 1 November, but does not actually apply for now.
- MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rouhollah Gahramani executed in Tabriz on May 21
- MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 21
Alim Barahouyi, Morteza Arayeshgar and Jahanshah Afshari
- MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Mohammadreza Beiki Firoozabadi executed on May 21
In unspecified prison, Yazd probably
MAY 21, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ZAHIR JAFFER'S DEATH SENTENCE
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on May 20, 2025 upheld the death penalty of Zahir Zakir Jaffer, a Pakistani-American, who was convicted of murdering 27-year-old Noor Mukadam, daughter of a former diplomat, a lawyer of Mukadam’s father said.
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three men executed in Birjand on May 21
Naser Dahar, Ghanbar Ghaffari, Nooreddin Mohammadzadeh
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on May 11, 14, and 21
Mohammad Amin Kolsoomi, Jafar Ghorbani, Mohammad Naeim Daneshi and Jaber Shehkaramzehi
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Hosseinzadeh executed in Tehran on May 21
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jahanshah Afshari and Aleem Barahoee executed in Ghezel Hesar on May 21
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Kashani executed in Hamedan on May 21
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolrahim Nazari executed in Zahedan on May 21
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Birjand on May 21
Naser Dehar, Qanbar Ghaffari, and Nouraldin Mohammadzadeh
- MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Kashani executed in Hamedan on May 21
MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arman Khanbeigi executed in Isfahan on May 21
- MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on May 21
Ali Moharami, Kavous Golshan and Mohsen Hesari
- MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on May 21
Mohammadreza Dehghan Dehnouri, Javad Rezaei, Noorveis Achak Zehi, Vali Shahrbabaki, Reza Beig
- MAY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nader Mostafavi executed in Yasuj on May 21
- MAY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Esmaeili executed in Bandar Abbas on May 20
- MAY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dual Iranian-British national Nasrin Roshan conditionally released on May 20
Arrested for her participation in overseas protests related to the death of Mahsa Amini
MAY 20, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT FREES MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 2013 RAPE-MURDER CASE
The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a man accused of raping and murdering a child in 2013 in Maharashtra’s Thane, citing the probe agency’s “shabby investigation” and the “overzealous” approach of the court that sentenced him, First Post reported on
MAY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Goran Qaderi executed in Sanandaj on May 20
MAY 20, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Matthew Johnson, 49, Black, was executed on May 20
18th execution of the year in the US
MAY 20, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: EX-POLITICAL ADVISER GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY
Han Yong, a former senior national political adviser, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on May 19, 2025 for accepting bribes, a court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region announced.
MAY 20, 2025IndianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Indiana. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, White, was executed on May 20