The people on death row
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On death row live the people who have been sentenced and are waiting to be executed. The wait can last years or decades, often in isolation, with a date that arrives or is put off again and again. It is a punishment inside the punishment, and in many countries the number of people held there is the hardest figure of all to obtain.
This page collects the news on the people on death row, on the conditions they are held in, and on the numbers the association is able to document.
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OCTOBER 8, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MALAYSIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER HANGED IN 12TH EXECUTION THIS YEAR
Singapore’s prison hanged a Malaysian drug trafficker on October 8, 2025, marking the second execution in two weeks and raising the number of executions in the city-state to 12 this year despite pressure to abolish the death penalty.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE EXECUTES MALAYSIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER IN THE CITY-STATE’S 11TH EXECUTION OF THE YEAR
A Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on September 25, 2025 for drug trafficking, raising the number of executions in the city-state to 11 this year despite renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Sabzevar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - What’s Behind the Execution Surge of 2025?
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA - Update on the situation of Tundu Lissu
Lissu's vicissitudes brought to the Venice Film Festival
AUGUST 29, 2025UtahDEATH PENALTYUSA - Utah. Ralph Menzies will not be executed on Sept. 5
AUGUST 26, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump Calls for Death Penalty in All D.C. Murder Cases
Washington D.C. abolished death penalty in 1981
AUGUST 22, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. New trial for Christopher Barbour
AUGUST 11, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Business Leader Calls for End to “Broken” Death Penalty System
Matthew Stepka, on behalf of a coalition of over 500 business leaders
JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 31
788 executions since the beginning of 2025
- JULY 30, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Tanzania - Update on the Tundu Lissu affair
JULY 27, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. URGENT ACTION for David Roberts
Jury voted for life, execution scheduled for August 21
- JULY 24, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
KENYAN MAN ON DEATH ROW IN SAUDI ARABIA FREED
A Kenyan man on death row in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade has been released after a lengthy campaign to save him from execution, a Kenyan foreign affairs ministry official has said.
JULY 23, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ronald Tabak, a pillar of the fight against the death penalty in the United States, has died
JULY 22, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Less Restrictive Conditions for Some on Death Row
JULY 14, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Governor signs HB 675
Limiting Post-Conviction Appeals
- JULY 9, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Catholic Church and capital punishment in the United States
Austin Sarat, Amherst College (Massachusetts)
JULY 5, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Interesting controversy after the non-condemnation to death of Bryan Kohberger
JULY 2, 2025South KoreaDEATH PENALTYSOUTH KOREA: TWO DEATH ROW INMATES DIE, LEAVING 57 REMAINING ON DEATH ROW
The fact that two death row inmates died last year has been revealed belatedly. They died due to advanced age and illness while being in a state where capital punishment was not carried out for a long time.
JUNE 29, 2025JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: 'TWITTER KILLER' HANGED IN FIRST EXECUTION SINCE 2022
Japan executed on June 27, 2025 a man convicted of the 2017 serial murders of nine people near Tokyo, the government said, marking the country's first hanging since July 2022.
JUNE 26, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. ACLU Joins Calls to Gov. Newsom to Commute All Death Sentences
JUNE 25, 2025MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Richard Jordan, 79, White, was executed on June 25
By lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman
JUNE 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Concern for the fate of Ahmadreza Djalali
Doctor accused of spying for Israel
JUNE 20, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Michelle Lyons watched nearly 300 executions
JUNE 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on June 17
Teimur Pouladvand, Nezam Moradi, Mahmoud Dehghan and Ali Akbar Younesi
JUNE 16, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Antonio Veronese updates us on the case of John Huggins
John Huggins, 63, White, on death row in Florida
JUNE 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five men executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 11
Massoud Naseri, Sajad Moradi Motlagh, Ardeshir Soltan Abadi, Hamed Hassani and Hatam Saeedi.
JUNE 9, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: NINE SPECIAL PERSONS ON DEATH ROW IN PUNJAB PRISONS
At least nine physically disabled male prisoners are currently on death row across Punjab’s 43 operational jails, according to official data released by the office of IGP Prisons.
- JUNE 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Firing squad, electric chair, nitrogen gas, injection: US expands execution methods
JUNE 3, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Scott Panetti Dies on Death Row of Natural Causes on May 26
Prisoner in Landmark Competency Case