Chronological archive
January 2025
The 136 news items published by Hands Off Cain in January 2025, in chronological order.
USA - South Carolina. Marion Bowman, 44, Black, was executed
First execution in the US of the new year
JANUARY 31, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Death row population decreased by 63 in 2024
Without any executions
- JANUARY 30, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: 22-YEAR-OLD JAMIU SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING SEX WORKER
An Abeokuta High Court on January 22, 2025 sentenced 22-year-old Jamiu Malomo to death by hanging for stabbing a sex worker to death.
JANUARY 30, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED AFTER CONVICTED ON TERROR CHARGES
Saudi Arabia said on January 28, 2025 it had executed a citizen convicted on terror charges including attacking security forces.
JANUARY 30, 2025MontanaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Montana. House narrowly rejects bill intended to allow death penalty to resume
HB 205
JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Zaboli executed in Yasuj on January 30
JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Calls for the Revocation of 6 Political Prisoners’ Death Penalty
Babak Alipour, Vahid Baniamerian, Pouya Ghobadi, Abolhassan Montazer and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi
JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Salehzadeh and Abdollah Khademi executed in Isfahan on January 30
- JANUARY 29, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: IHC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF TWO CONVICTS TO LIFE TERM IN OSAMA SATTI MURDER CASE
The Islamabad High Court on January 22, 2025 commuted the death sentence of two convicts in Osama Satti murder case to life imprisonment and acquitting three others.
- JANUARY 29, 2025ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE BEGINS RESENTENCING OF DEATH ROW INMATES AFTER ABOLISHING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Zimbabwe has started the process of resentencing prisoners who were on death row after officially abolishing the death penalty, the Global South World reported on January 22, 2025.
JANUARY 29, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death Penalty Documentary Nominated for Academy Award
“I am Ready, Warden”
JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz
Hamid Fanaei, Amir Fanaei, Rasoul Minaei, Khosrow Abbaszadeh, and Mohammad Ali Heidari
JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Female Prisoners in Evin
Report on 76 female political and security prisoners
JANUARY 29, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Death Penalty in 2024
New Monthly Podcast from the DPIC
- JANUARY 28, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER SEPARATE DEADLY KNIFE ATTACKS
Two men were sentenced to death on January 24, 2025 for separate deadly stabbings in China.
- JANUARY 28, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: MILITARY COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF MILITARY EXPERT
Congo's military court of appeal on January 27, 2025 confirmed the death sentence previously imposed on Belgian Jean-Jacques Wondo, La Libre writes.
JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 53rd Week of Hunger Strikes in 34 Prisons
Year 2 of “No to Execution Tuesdays”
JANUARY 28, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STABBING FRIEND OVER PHONE CHARGER
A High Court in Bauchi State has sentenced Usman Abdullahi to death by hanging for the murder of Zaidu Adamu Kofar Dumi.
JANUARY 28, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Texas executions decline, but death penalty system remains flawed
Robert Roberson’s case is reason enough for pause
JANUARY 28, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Lawmakers Pass Mandatory Death Penalty Bill (SB 2-B)
JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Radmand executed in Rasht “about a month ago”
information received by Hengaw on Feb. 28
- JANUARY 27, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS DEATH SENTENCES IN DRC AND VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL
The European Parliament on January 23, 2025 adopted a resolution by a show of hands regarding the respect for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
JANUARY 27, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - International Appeal to save Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
Two political prisoners whoi coulod be executed within hours
- JANUARY 27, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN: INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO SAVE BEHROUZ EHSANI AND MEHDI HASSANI
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
JANUARY 27, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 4 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
A Pakistani court on January 25, 2025 sentenced four people to death for blasphemy
JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 26
Farzad Mirzaei, Farhad Ferdini, and Samad Hashemi
- JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Jahangiri executed in Malayer on January 26
Already 81 executions in 2025
JANUARY 25, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Singapore carried out on January 23, 2025 the hanging of a convicted drug trafficker.
JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojjat Panahi executed in Rasht on January 25
JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran accuses EU of ‘meddling’ after parliament condemned death penalties
- JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Aminnejad and Ebrahim … executed on January 25
In Shiraz and Nishapur
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- JANUARY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amjad Amini, Jina Amini's father, accused of "Propaganda against the state"
For supporting Pakhshan Azizi
JANUARY 24, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Texas Death Penalty Declining in Use — 2024 in Review
- JANUARY 24, 2025MontanaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Montana. Death penalty bill HB 205 moves forward in Legislature
JANUARY 24, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Former death row prisoners may be heading to Florence, Colorado
The ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’
- JANUARY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - European Parliament calls to end Iran's 'hostage diplomacy'
A resolution condemning Iran’s detention of European Union citizens
JANUARY 23, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MAN CONVICTED OF TRAFFICKING CHILDREN
A higher court on January 21, 2025 upheld the death sentence for Wang Haowen, who was convicted of trafficking children.
JANUARY 23, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG 10 PEOPLE IN KHOST AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS PERSIST
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that 10 individuals, including one woman, were publicly whipped in Khost province on January 22, 2025, charged with “adultery,” “sodomy,” “illicit relations,” and “running away from home.”
JANUARY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - EU Parliament adopts resolution condemning Iran's use of death penalty
JANUARY 23, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. De facto death penalty
277 died within prison walls in 2024
- JANUARY 22, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Trump suggests state death penalty for those commuted by Biden. Is that possible?
"Highly unlikely", legal experts say
JANUARY 22, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE TO BE HANGED FOR 2013 MURDER IN SAVAR
A court in Dhaka sentenced three people to death on January 16, 2025 for the murder of a man in Savar about 12 years ago over previous enmity.
JANUARY 22, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 5 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE-MURDER OF CHHATTISGARH GIRL
A fast-track court in Korba district of Chhattisgarh has sentenced five men to death for gang-raping and killing a 16-year-old girl and murdering her two family members in 2021.
JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Saveh on January 22
JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lawyer of Pakhshan Azizi: Execution Temporarily Halted
- JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Sasouli executed in Yazd on January 22
- JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Besharatlou and Javad Jaberi executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on January 22
JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four prisoners executed in Yazd on January 22
Ahmad Sasouli + 3 Unk
- JANUARY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naser Zandipour and Nader Minaeifar executed in Yazd on January 22
- JANUARY 21, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI EXECUTES MAN CONVICTED OF TERRORISM
The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced in a statement on January 18, 2025 that a citizen had been executed following his conviction on terrorism charges.
- JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Diani executed in Isfahan on January 21
- JANUARY 21, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Supreme Court Makes Historic Decision
Rules in Favor of Woman on Death Row, Confirming Admission of Prejudicial, Gendered Evidence Can Violate Due Process Rights
- JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - “No to Executions Tuesdays” Campaign Marks Its 1st Anniversary
- JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karim Faridi executed in Zanjan on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Online Conference on the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
With the participation of Hands off Cain
JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojat Shahriari executed in Borazjan on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sardar Mohammad executed in Bandar Abbas on January 21
- JANUARY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Online conference in support of the #NoToExecutionTuesdays campaign
- JANUARY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholamreza Seyed Mohammadkhani and Aref Azizi executed in Mashhad on January 20
JANUARY 20, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR COMMITTING DEADLY ‘REVENGE ON SOCIETY CRIMES’
China has executed two men who committed deadly attacks that killed dozens in November, raising concerns about a surge in what are called “revenge on society crimes”, state media reported.
JANUARY 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Agrees to Use of Disputed Confession for Life Sentence
Accused 9/11 Mastermind
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JANUARY 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Among First-Day Executive Orders, Trump Issues Order on the Death Penalty
- JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahram Valipour and Hossein Farhadi executed in Gorgan on January 19
JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy
- JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Mohammadi executed in Arak on January 19
- JANUARY 18, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - A third man, Iouri Mikhel, rejects Biden's pardon
- JANUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two Iranian supreme court judges shot dead
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh
JANUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mass Executions Behind The Elimination of Iranian Judges
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghise
JANUARY 17, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden grants clemency to 2490 convicted of non-violent drug offences
JANUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Yasin arrives in Germany
Iranian-Kurdish rapper once on death row
- JANUARY 16, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN EXECUTES DEATH ROW INMATE CONVICTED IN 2013 MURDERS
Taiwan on January 16, 2025 executed a death row inmate convicted in a 2013 double murder, marking the country's first execution since President Lai Ching-te took office last year.
- JANUARY 16, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Department of Justice Withdraws Federal Execution Protocol
And Keeps Moratorium on Executions in Place
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Third man executed in Khorrambad on January 16
Mohammad Amiri-Bahravand
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Zeinabi and Saman Davoudian executed in Khorramabad on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saiwan Yaqoubi executed in Sanandaj on January 16
- JANUARY 15, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ORISSA HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF 9 TO LIFE SENTENCE
The Orissa High Court on January 15, 2025 commuted the death sentences of nine individuals to life imprisonment in connection with a 2016 triple murder case.
- JANUARY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on January 15
Farrokh Nasiri, Mansour Qolizadeh, and Payam Cheraghi
JANUARY 15, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MURDERER OF MALAYSIAN STUDENT
The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch on January 15, 2025 upheld a death sentence for a man found guilty of raping and murdering a Malaysian student in a retrial.
- JANUARY 14, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR HIGH COURT BLOCKS DEPORTATION OF OVER 100 AFGHAN MUSICIANS
The Peshawar High Court on January 10, 2025 issued an order preventing the forced deportation of more than 100 Afghan musicians who have sought political asylum in Pakistan, according to local media reports.
- JANUARY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 51st week of the “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign
Hunger strikes in 34 female and male prisons
JANUARY 14, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Agofsky and Davis can't legally object to Biden's death row commutations
DOJ argues
JANUARY 14, 2025FranceDEATH PENALTYIRAN - French Citizen Olivier Grondeau Imprisoned in Iran
3rd Frenche citized deteined in Iran on vague charges
- JANUARY 13, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF EX-LORRY DRIVER CONVICTED OF RAPE-CUM-MURDER OF ELDERLY WOMAN COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS IMPRISONMENT
A former lorry driver who murdered an 85-year-old woman after raping and sodomising her in 2019 has his death sentence commuted to 40 years in prison by the Federal Court on January 13, 2025.
JANUARY 13, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN, SON AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING RELATIVE, HIS DAUGHTER OVER ‘HONOUR’
Jamshoro’s additional sessions court on January 10, 2025 sentenced a man and his son to death after they were found guilty of murdering a young woman and her father in the name of honour.
JANUARY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHRS Year-End report. Iran Executed More than 1000 in 2024.
JANUARY 12, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italy releases Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi
Iranian national detained on terrorism charges
JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Fallah executed in Semnan on January 12
- JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Pouya Asgari executed in Arak on January 12
- JANUARY 11, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Pakhshan Azizi is one step away from execution
- JANUARY 10, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal judge delays 9/11 deals
Some victims' family members criticize Biden's lack of “political” courage
- JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTY
DRC: AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCE 170 PRISONERS TO BE EXECUTED
More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said.
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JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYINDIA: SENTENCED TO DEATH AS MINOR, MAN SET FREE AFTER 23 YEARS
The Supreme Court of India on January 8, 2025 set free a minor offender, more than 23 years after he was sentenced to death by an Uttarakhand court in a murder case
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Norouzi executed in Qom on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Samad Najar-Asl executed in Isfahan on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - List of 54 Political and Security Prisoners on Death Row
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 9
Behrouz Ghasemi, Houshang Shahi, Samad Najjar Asl
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala Released
- JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death Sentence upheld for Pakhshan Azizi
Kurdish political prisoner
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ashna (Noutizehi) executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Baoo Dieselabadi executed in Sari on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 8
Salman Bozorgmehr, Reza Azizian, and Ashkan Pirian + 2 Unk
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 938 in 2024
- JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sixth execution reported in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on Jan. 8
An unidentified Afghan
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN Farman Afristam executed in Kermanshah on January 7
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on January 7
Mozafar Shahsavari, Mohammad Shahidi, and Ashkan Kazemi
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - US transfers 11 Guantanamo detainees to Oman
After more than two decades without charge
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentences for Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
Political prisoners accused of belonging to the PMOI
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran HRM Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 993 in 2024
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Mehrabadi executed in Sabzevar on January 7
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Volker Türk "deeply troubled by the marked increase in executions in Iran in 2024"
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Saadi executed in Ahvaz on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Atin and Reza Seyedi executed in Mahabad on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Year-End Report on Women
31 women executed in 2024
- JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Why Does the United States Bother to Impose Death Sentences?
Editorial by Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
- JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khalil Alizahi e Amir Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Azadi executed in Hamedan on January 5
- JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Arzandeh and Mohammadreza Hosseinzadeh executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Alizahi (Sargolzahi) and Amir-Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5
JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA - ESOHR Year-End Report
345 executions in 2024
JANUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Bahmanyari execeted in Ganaveh on January 5
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JANUARY 4, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramezan Taheri executed in Taybad on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valiollah Kamalpour executed in Semnan on January 4
JANUARY 4, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran News Update Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 997 in 2024
JANUARY 2, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on December 29 and January 2
Mostafa Shakeri, Khosrow Khodadadi, and Karim Bahmani
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 1
Arshia …, Amin … + 1 Unk.
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shafi Mousavi executed in Malayer on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Bandar Abbas
Heydat Ghasemi, Shahrokh Sabahpour, Ramzi Beigsowar + 2 Unk
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on January 1
Heydat Ghasemi and two unidentified Afghans
JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pezhman (Pejman) Masoudi Koushk executed in Yasuj on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 1
Ali Vahdani, Hassan Vahdani, and Shahram Mahdavi
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Update: 10 executions in Karaj on January 1
Previous information spoke of 3, or 6 executions
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Moradi executed in Ahvaz on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrouz Mehrani executed in Gorgan on January 1
- JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Meysam Farhadi and Reza Bakhtiari executed in Kermanshah on January 1
JANUARY 1, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 901 in 2024