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APRIL 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - International female solidarity for Iranian women
APRIL 11, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, Black, was executed
By firing squad
APRIL 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Shahriar Bayat overturned
64-year-old political prisoner
APRIL 11, 2025DEATH PENALTYAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: GLOBAL RECORDED EXECUTIONS HIT THEIR HIGHEST FIGURE SINCE 2015
Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024, said Amnesty International on April 8, 2025 as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty
APRIL 11, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture
The case of Ammar al-Baluchi
APRIL 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING LABORER IN HABIGANJ
A Habiganj court on April 9, 2025 sentenced four people to death for the murder of a day laborer at Madhabpur upazila in the district.
APRIL 10, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: TWO PAKISTANI NATIONALS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING OVER 191KG OF KETAMINE
The Malaysian High Court on April 10, 2025 imposed the death penalty on two Pakistani nationals after they were found guilty of trafficking 191.28 kg of ketamine six years ago.
APRIL 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Bamari and Yasin Bamari executed in Iranshahr on April 10
APRIL 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moein Ashrafi executed in Shahroud on April 10
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Younes Kord e Esmail Dahmardeh giustiziati a Gonabad il 9 aprile
APRIL 9, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH KALASHNIKOV
The Court of Cassation on April 8, 2025 upheld the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals which sentenced a 40-year-old Kuwaiti citizen to death for murdering his mother-in-law using a Kalashnikov rifle in Wafra.
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9th
APRIL 9, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
The Central Criminal Court on April 8, 2025 sentenced a drug dealer to death for the crime of trafficking in narcotic substances.
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Aghaei executed in Qom on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrouz Shirmohammadli executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Salimi executed in Borazjan on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Seifi executed in Shiraz on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 Men Hanged in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9
Sajad Akbari, Bahram Hodavand Khani, Salar Amir Jalali, Abolfazl Karimi, Mehdi Salan and two unidentified men. Hengaw (and HoC) already reported the execution of 4 of them
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Memari Hanged in Ahvaz on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) an April 9
Meysam Veysi and Shir-Mohammad Nazarollah
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seifollah Nasiri executed Tabriz on 9 April
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamseddin Fazli Hanged in Tabriz on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kambiz Fathi executed in Kermanshah on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soud Mirzaei and Vahid Ashouri executed in Shiraz on April 9, 2025
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Gholamreza Pardakhteh executed in Shahrud on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Barahouei executed in Mashhad on April 9
APRIL 8, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida - Michael Tanzi, 48, White, was executed
APRIL 8, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TELANGANA HC UPHOLDS FIVE DEATH SENTENCES IN DILSUKHNAGAR BLASTS CASE
The Telangana high court on April 8, 2025 upheld the death sentence awarded to five Indian Mujahideen operatives in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar blasts case, dismissing their appeal challenging the punishment.
APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Political Prisoners Executed in Mashhad on April 8
Farhad Shakeri, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, and Malek-Ali Fadaie-Nasab