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MARCH 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes
A dissident artist and singer
MARCH 5, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Senate passes firing squad bill (HB 37)
MARCH 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Karimkhani Al-Qalandis executed in Tabriz on March 5
MARCH 5, 2025MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 196 to expand death penalty
- MARCH 4, 2025United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: INDIAN WOMAN EXECUTED FOR INFANT’S MURDER
Shahjadi Sabbeer Khan (30), a caregiver from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district who was sentenced to death last year in the United Arab Emirates for the alleged murder of a four-month-old infant, was executed on February 15, 2025, the Ministry of External Aff
MARCH 4, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, BROTHER-IN-LAW IN LAGOS
A Lagos State High Court, presided over by Justice Sherifat Sonaike, at Tafawa Balewa Square, on February 27, 2025 sentenced Benjamin Ogundero to death by hanging for the murder of his wife, Chinyere Ogundero, and her brother, Ifeanyi Joseph, in April 202
MARCH 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 58th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
In 38 Prisons Across Iran
MARCH 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ezat Zeinali executed in Ahar on March 4
MARCH 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghasem Sarayi Executed in Qom on March 4
MARCH 4, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. HB 123 to end death penalty for people with intellectual disabilities clears House
MARCH 4, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Death penalty for child rape
HB49 passed Senate Judiciary Committee
MARCH 4, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 601 for a Moratorium
MARCH 3, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY AS CASES SURGE
A court in Pakistan’s Lahore has sentenced a man to death for blasphemy, police said on February 27, 2025
MARCH 3, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG 20 PEOPLE, INCLUDING WOMEN, AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT PERSISTS
The Taliban has publicly flogged 20 people, including five women, on various charges in eastern Khost and Parwan provinces, the group’s Supreme Court announced on February 24, 2025.
MARCH 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 88 executions in February in Iran
MARCH 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iraj Memari executed in Khorramabad on March 2
201 executions in Iran in 2025
MARCH 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - State-affiliated Sociologist Ahmad Bokharaee Admits 7,000 Await Execution
A rare and startling admission
MARCH 1, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: WOMAN EXECUTED FOR ABDUCTING, TRAFFICKING 17 CHILDREN
Yu Huaying, the woman convicted of abducting and trafficking 17 children, was executed on February 28, 2025, according to a court statement.
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seven men executed in Zahedan on March 1
Basir Roudini, Farhad Dahmardeh, Mousa Paheng, Ghasem Ghanbarzaki, Morad Sabrou, Saadollah Zarei e Asim Charikar
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men and 1 woman executed in Mashhad on March 1
Asieh Ghavi Cheshm, Mehrdad Kolbeali, Hassan Shahraki, Jalal Afaq, Masoud Yaghi Zayi (Brahui), and Aref Sediqpour
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Pasha and Jalal Shahsavar executed in Amol on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Tavakoli executed in Jiroft on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Mozaffari and Yaghoub Mirzajani executed in Gorgan on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim and Gholamhossein Khalili executed in Mashhad on March 1
8 executions on March 1 in Mashhad
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 executions in various prisons on March 1
Javad and Alireza Afagh, Mohammad Araqi, Ramin Alaei, Mehrdad Asgarabadi + 2 unidentified
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - From March 1st, executions should almost come to a halt.
For the holy month of ramadan
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Fathi executed in Tabriz on March 1
- MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Bamari and Mohammad Raei executed in Birjand on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasrin Barani, a woman, executed in Isfahan on March 1
MARCH 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Ahmadpour executed in Qazvin on March 1