Archive timeline
2025
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2025, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 2,346
- Countries where they were recorded
- 23
- News items in the archive
- 2,356
Latest news of 2025
AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOGGED MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE IN PUBLIC IN 2025, FIGURES SHOW
The Taliban publicly flogged more than 1,000 people across Afghanistan in 2025, including at least 150 women, according to data released by their Supreme Court
DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on December 31
Saeed Partouy, Ali Partouy, Arash Shams, Naser Mirzayi and Sohrab Imani
DECEMBER 31, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Guardian looks on American death penalty
DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed on December 31
Karamali Khani, Ehsan Dehqanpanah, Mohsen Jadidi, Manouchehr Niazi, Mehran Hosseini, Keramat Safari, Moslem Rafiinia
DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR report on widespread and systematic drug executions
- DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed on December 31
Samad Azizi, Niazali Yari, Sohbat Fathi, Meysam Naseri, Amir Jafari-Rad, Erfan Sheikh Eslami + 3
- DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed on December 31
Ahad Mirzaei, Hanif Mohammadi, Yasin Azimi, Abbas Gholipour
- DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karamali Khani and Niazali Faryadi hanged in Kashmar on December 31
DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - NCRI Year End Report: More than 2,200 executions in 2025
An Unprecedented High in Khamenei’s 37-Year Criminal Rule
DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 30
Sajjad Veysi, Ali Akbar Barzegar, Peyman Zamani, Yahya Panahi Rad, Amin Khosroabadi, Mahmoud Zarei, Khodarahm Ahmadi, Ali Mohammad Dastar, Mansour Rigi
DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on 3rd day of protests
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farid Norizad executed in Quchan on December 30
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shayan Karami executed in Behbahan on December 30
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Rasht on December 30
- DECEMBER 30, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Impending/scheduled executions
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hojjat Amini-Zadeh executed in Shahrekord on December 30
DECEMBER 30, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. TFDP's Year End Report: 19 executions, 5 death sentences
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 29
Soheil Bakhtiari, Sobhan Safizadeh, Amir Mahdi Navabi, Sina Nadari, Marvan Emadabadi, Yaser Khatibi
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed on December 29
Shoja Asgari, Heshmat Fallahi + 2
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Qasem Amini executed in Sanandaj on December 29
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Nadi executed in Bukan on December 29
DECEMBER 28, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Update on the situation in Congo
There is no more news of Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, Kabila's right-hand man
DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bismullah Tajik executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28
At least 85 Afghan nationals executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed on December 28
Ali Safar Sepahvand, Mostafa Mehrjoo, Moein Hassanzadeh, Jamshid Akbari, Jafar Najafi, Mousa Rahimi-Rad, Azizali Kolkhani + 1
DECEMBER 28, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TEACHER IN PAKTIKA
A Taliban court in Paktika province has overturned the death sentence against Abdul Alim Khamosh, a teacher who had been detained on charges of “insulting the prophet of islam,”
DECEMBER 28, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO EX-BAATH OFFICER OVER BARZANI CRIMES
Iraq’s High Criminal Court on December 28, 2025 sentenced former Baath-era security commander Shaker Ghafour Al-Douri to death after convicting him of participating in mass executions targeting Kurdish Barzani civilians.
DECEMBER 28, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Georgia Stacey Humphreys' execution warrant expired
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Younes Afshari executed in Hamedan on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Joveyani executed in Ardabil on December 28