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JUNE 3, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 8-YR-OLD GIRL
A special court in Madhubani (Bihar) on May 31, 2025 sentenced two men, Sushil Rai and Om Prakash Jha, to death for the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old dalit girl.
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Behzadi executed in Manujan on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shoaib Abdulhaq Mohammadi executed in Taybad on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Scott Panetti Dies on Death Row of Natural Causes on May 26
Prisoner in Landmark Competency Case
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholi Faramarzi executed in Tabriz on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025LesothoDEATH PENALTY13 COUNTRIES URGE LESOTHO TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Lesotho has been urged by 13 countries to formally abolish the death penalty, maintain its de facto moratorium on executions, and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP2), which seeks to e
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nadim Davoudi executed in Kahnouj on June 2
575 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Navid Hedavand Khani and Naeem Naseri executed in Hamedan on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Sabeghi executed in Kahnouj on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 2
Alireza Shahbazi, Ali Karami Nasr, Ali Abbasi
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 executions in Ghezel Hesar on on June 2
Ali Karami Nasr, Alireza Shahbazi, Ali Abbas-Moghaddam, Sajad Nabizadeh, Yasin Aghaei, Nazir Mohammad, Behzad..., + 2 unidentified
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Amin Rastegari executed in Semnan on June 2
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Almasi and Jebreal Hashemzadeh, two cousins, executed in Isfahan on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. New DNA testing proves innocence of Kenneth Clair
Man who has spent 40 years in prison
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - In May, more than 5 executions per day
157 according to Hrana, 163 to Hengaw, 174 to HoC
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Kheradmand executed in Ghezel Hesar on 2 June
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Lejei and Fakhrollah Shiruzehi executed in Bam on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mansouri executed in Kerman on June 1
- JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahriar Khalafi executed in Qom on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Shah Mohammadi executed in Qom on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoumeh Karbakhsh Executed in Kerman on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahmirza Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jomaa Narouei executed in Zahedan on June 1
MAY 31, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump pardons Larry Hoover, notorious drug kingpins
Even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric
MAY 31, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Patricia Krenwinkel is recommended for parole
A follower of Charles Manson's sect, convicted of 7 murders, she has been detained for 56 years
MAY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence for political prisoner Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh upheld
MAY 30, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Judge sentences Adam Slater to death
MAY 29, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: KOREAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER WHO DEFENDED DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
A Korean man living in Vietnam has been sentenced to death for brutally murdering his father, who had flown in from South Korea to intervene in a family dispute and support his daughter-in-law.
MAY 29, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS ISLAMIST LEADER ON DEATH ROW
Bangladesh's top court on May 27, 2025 overturned a conviction against a key leader of the country's main Islamist party, who had been on death row since being sentenced under the regime ousted last year.
MAY 29, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Death sentence of Ronald Lopez Andrade thrown out