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MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahtab Amiri, a woman, executed in Shiraz on May 13
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Joghatay Executed in Gonabad on May 13
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed prisoner executed in Karaj on May 13
MAY 13, 2025GeorgiaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Governor Kemp signs HB 123
To Protect People with Intellectual Disability from the Death Penalty
MAY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 68th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
MAY 13, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ’S JUSTICE MINISTER SAYS PRISONS ARE AT DOUBLE CAPACITY AS AMNESTY LAW TAKES EFFECT
As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview on May 3, 2025.
MAY 12, 2025IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: GET THEM LEGAL ASSISTANCE, SAYS HC ON 3 INDIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN INDONESIA
The Delhi high court on May 2, 2025 directed the Indian Consulate in Indonesia to take urgent steps to ensure proper legal representation and assistance for three Indian nationals sentenced to death by an Indonesian court.
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Nasri Zar executed in Karaj on May 12
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Gorgan on May 12
Mahboobeh Khosrow-Nejad, Firooz (Erfan) Aliyari, Safa Qaradashi
- MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalil Azizi executed in Arak on May 12
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kourosh Jalili executed in Karaj on May 12
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Hojatzadeh executed in Isfahan on May 12
427 executions in Iran nel 2025
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Arak on May 12
Mohammad Abdi, Nemat Pirizali and Jalil Azizi
MAY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Abolhosseini and Asrar Amani executed in Shiraz on May 12
MAY 12, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYITALY - Oshima "The hanging"
In Perugia, on May 14
MAY 11, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING COUSIN OVER PROPERTY ISSUE
Rawalpindi female additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) on May 10, 2025 handed down death sentence to a 22-year-old woman for killing her paternal cousin over property and marriage issues.
MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fereydoun Mohammadi and Mohammad-Ali Miri executed in Zahedan on May 11
MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran sentences another political prisoner to death: Ehsan Faridi
- MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Miyaneh on May 11
- MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Sedighi executed in Shahroud on May 11
MAY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Haghi executed in Yazd on May 11
MAY 9, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Death sentence of Donna Roberts overturned
Not the guilty verdict
MAY 9, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Governor ratified HB 1693
Amends the process for determining mental competency for execution
MAY 8, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SENIOR LAWYER IN SYLHET
A Sylhet court on May 6, 2025 sentenced three individuals, including the son of the victim, to death for the brutal 2011 murder of veteran lawyer Shamsul Islam Chowdhury. Another accused in the case received a three-year prison sentence.
MAY 8, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: BRT DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BAMISE’S MURDER
Justice Sherifat Sonaike of the Lagos State High Court on May 2, 2025 sentenced Bus Rapid Transit driver, Andrew Ominikoron, to death by hanging for the murder of 22-year-old Oluwabamise Ayanwola.
MAY 8, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Botched firing squad execution
Autopsy suggests shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi's heart
MAY 7, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG WOMAN AND THREE MEN
The Taliban authorities have publicly flogged a woman and three men in separate incidents in northern and southeastern Afghanistan, according to statements issued on May 4, 2025 by the group’s Supreme Court.
MAY 7, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OVER COLD CURRY
Sargodha Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Aslam sentenced a man to death for killing his daughter-in-law over serving cold curry and acquitted.
MAY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rouhollah Moradiani and Maziar Karimi executed in Karaj on May 7
MAY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali (Arash) Shafiee executed in Shiraz on May 7