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MARCH 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heidar Safdari and Sohrab Niazi executed in Qazvin on March 15
MARCH 13, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DEATH ROW INMATES NOW 3,688, AG NCOS CG TELLS SENATE
The Acting Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr. Sylvester Nwakuche, on March 12, 2025 said 3,688 prisoners are currently on death row in various correctional centres across the country.
MARCH 13, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘FORCED’ RELIGIOUS CONVERSION CRITICISED BY CHURCH
The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has said his government would make a provision for the death penalty to punish what it describes as “forced” religious conversion of females, a move that has drawn consternation from the Church in I
MARCH 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Does the “minor age” really end at 18?
What Experts are Saying About Emerging Adult Behavioral Development
MARCH 13, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. House Committee passes new aggravating factors
HB 693
MARCH 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Kazemzadeh and Mohammadreza Basiri executed in Semnan on March 13
MARCH 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Yarmohammadi executed in Dorud on March 13
MARCH 12, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH, 6 OTHERS LIFE TERM IN TELANGANA DALIT MAN’S ‘HONOUR KILLING’ IN 2018
A Telangana court on March 10, 2025 pronounced the sentence in the 2018 Miryalaguda honour killing case. The hired killer, Subhash Sharma, was given the death penalty, while all others accused were sentenced to life imprisonment.
MARCH 12, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: SUPREME PROSECUTORS OFFICE REVIEWS 36 DEATH ROW INMATE APPEALS
Taiwan’s Supreme Prosecutors Office is reviewing extraordinary appeal requests from 36 death row inmates following a Constitutional Court ruling last year.
MARCH 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Vahidi executed in Sari on March 12
232 executions in 2025
- MARCH 12, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTY
USA - Idaho. Governor Little signs HB 37 authorizing firing squad as State’s primary execution method
MARCH 12, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. House passed HB 1693 on mental competency
MARCH 11, 2025IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: MINISTRY PROVIDES LEGAL AID FOR INDONESIAN ON DEATH ROW IN ETHIOPIA
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry has vowed to provide legal aid to Linda Yuliana, an Indonesian citizen facing the death penalty in Ethiopia after being convicted in a drug smuggling case.
MARCH 11, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MADHYA PRADESH PLANS TO IMPOSE DEATH PENALTY FOR THE RELIGIOUS CONVERSION OF GIRLS
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav said on March 8, 2025 that his govt would amend the law to provide for death penalty for forced religious conversion of girls.
MARCH 11, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES IN TANGAIL BUS RAPE AND MURDER CASE
The High Court on January 27, 2025 commuted the death sentences of three convicts in the 2017 rape and murder of college student Zakia Sultana Rupa in a moving bus near Modhupur upazila in Tangail.
MARCH 11, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Signs Plea Offer
One of the guantamo trials. The unknown of political reaction
MARCH 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojjat Torkaman executed in Malayer on March 11
MARCH 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 59th week of "No to execution Tuesdays"
MARCH 11, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - New report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025
Nearly 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S.
MARCH 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sentences Reduced for Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi
2 young Political Prisoners
MARCH 10, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TORTURING AND MURDERING TWO-YEAR-OLD ADOPTED BOY
Colombo High Court Judge Sujeewa Nishshanka, on March 6, 2025 sentenced to death a man and his wife for torturing and murdering a two-year-old boy whom they had adopted.
MARCH 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF GIRLFRIEND
Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 on February 27, 2025 sentenced Maruf Hasan Badhon to death for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, Asma Akter, five years ago.
MARCH 10, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: KAOHSIUNG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING NEIGHBORS
The Kaohsiung District Court on March 10, 2025 sentenced to death a man convicted of fatally stabbing a couple in an upstairs apartment that he believed frequently made too much noise.
MARCH 10, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. A judge followed a jury's recommendation that Eriese Tisdale be put to death
MARCH 9, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: KENYAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 2 KG OF DRUGS
A Kenyan woman in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced to death for trafficking over 2 kg of drugs through Tan Son Nhat Airport.
MARCH 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Saeedi executed in Zanjan on March 9
- MARCH 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Khosravi executed in Neyshabur on March 9
MARCH 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saber Fathollahi and Zaki Zakeri executed in Shiraz on March 9
MARCH 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad (Afshin) Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on March 8
MARCH 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houshang Mohammadkhani executed in Yazd on March 8