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MAY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Pourassadi executed in Rasht on May 7
MAY 7, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jury recommends death penalty for Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunte
MAY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ashraf Shahbazi executed in Yasuj on May 7
MAY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Rezayi executed in Yasuj on May 7
- MAY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Maziar Karimi executed in Karaj on May 7
MAY 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Victims’ Families Remain Divided on Federal Death Penalty
MAY 6, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: GUJARAT COURT HANDS DOWN 'DOUBLE DEATH SENTENCE' TO MAN FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A sessions court in Gujarat on April 25, 2025 sentenced a man, 30, to a double death penalty in the case of raping and strangulating a 7-year-old girl to death in October 2019 in a village in Anand.
MAY 6, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR MURDER OF HAWKER ZUBAIR IN NARAYANGANJ
A Narayanganj court on May 6, 2025 sentenced four individuals to death and two others to life imprisonment in the murder case of hawker Zubair.
MAY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Khani executed in Arak on May 6
MAY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Golabi executed in Bandar Abbas on May 6
MAY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Saei executed in Tabriz on May 6
- MAY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unk executed in Shahroud on May 6
- MAY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Payam Mokhtari executed in Tabriz on May 6
MAY 5, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: GUJARAT MAN HANGED FOR MURDERING HIS EMPLOYER IN 2019
A 38-year-old resident of Mohammadali Chowk in Kapadvanj (Gujarat), Mustakim Bhathiara, was executed in Kuwait on April 28, 2025 after being convicted in a 2019 murder case.
- MAY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Mohammad Tavakkoli executed in Hamedan on May 5
MAY 4, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 100 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN 2025 SO FAR
Saudi Arabia executed two people convicted of terrorism related charges, the interior ministry said on May 3, 2025, bringing the total number of executions carried out this year to at least 100, according to an AFP tally.
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed in Birjand on May 4
Khosrow Sarani, Mahmoud Sarani, Yousef Sorourvash, Alireza Lalouzai, Mousa Shokoohi, Mojtaba Lakzaei, and Ali Nouri
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saber Eliasi (Elyasi) executed in Qazvin on May 4
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naeb Baluchi executed in Zahedan on May 4
- MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Raeisi executed in Shiraz on May 4
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Shokoohi executed in Kerman on May 4
MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ammar Validi executed in Ahvaz on May 4
- MAY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Mirzaei executed in Zanjan on May 4
MAY 4, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Death Penalty Expansion Bills Await Governor’s Signature
HB 1283/SB 1804, HB 653/SB 776, HB 693/SB 984, HB 903/SB 1604
MAY 3, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: ARMY COURT MARTIAL SENTENCES SOLDIER TO DEATH FOR GIRLFRIEND’S MURDER
A General Court Martial sitting at the Headquarters, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, has sentenced Private Adamu Mohammed to death by hanging for murder, while Private Abubakar Yusuf was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for robbery.
MAY 2, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Illinois. Former Gov. George Ryan Dies at 91
He cleared death row in 2003
MAY 2, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Spring 2025
2067 persons on death row as April 1, 2025
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Farokhvand and Mahmoud Ostad Mamzayi executed in Dezful on May 1
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Shiravand executed in Khorramabad on May 1
MAY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A Woman Executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on May 1
Only identified as “Saghar”