Chronological archive
June 2025
The 135 news items published by Hands Off Cain in June 2025, in chronological order.
MALAYSIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER OF FRIEND’S CHILDREN
The High Court in Alor Setar has sentenced a man to death for murdering his friend’s two young children six years ago, Free Malaysia Today reported on June 30, 2025.
JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 man exewcuted in Taybad on June 30
Unidentified Afghan man
- JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadreza Didban and Mozaffar Najari executed in Shiraz on June 30
JUNE 30, 2025DelawareDEATH PENALTYUSA - Delaware. General Assembly passes 1st leg of amendment to ban death penalty
It will have to be re-voted next year
JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - New bill approved by parliament to punish collaborating with “hostile groups”
Death penalty for a wide range of offences
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 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Mostafavi executed in Neyshabur on June 28
JUNE 27, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Adel Ramos' death sentence formalised
JUNE 27, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ronnie Walker sentenced to death
- JUNE 26, 2025DelawareDEATH PENALTY
USA - Delaware. Death penalty ban in constitution passes Senate committee
JUNE 26, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. ACLU Joins Calls to Gov. Newsom to Commute All Death Sentences
JUNE 26, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTY2025 WORLD DRUG DAY
HoC signs the collective statement
JUNE 26, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM ENDS DEATH PENALTY FOR 8 CRIMES, MAY SPARE REAL ESTATE TYCOON
Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case, AP reported on June 26, 2025.
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 25, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 11-YEAR OLD GIRL
A special Pocso court in Jalpaiguri sentenced 31-year old Haripada Roy to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year old girl, categorising it as a "rarest of rare" case, Times of India reported on June 11, 2025.
- JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on June 25
- JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Mashhad on June 25
JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 political prisoners executed on charges of espionage for Israel
JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Israeli Air Force hit Evin Prison, symbol of political imprisonment
Victims among officers, not among prisoners
JUNE 24, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Judge throws out jury death sentence for Ysrael Granda
JUNE 24, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, White, was executed on June 24
Per lethal injection
- JUNE 24, 2025DelawareDEATH PENALTY
USA - Delaware. House Approves Constitutional Amendment to Abolish Death Penalty
JUNE 24, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: DEATH PENALTIES HANDED TO THREE DRUG TRAFFICKERS
A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced three drug traffickers to death for smuggling and selling more than 50 kilos of heroin and synthetic drugs, state media reported on June 18, 2025.
JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Azim Mohammadi executed in Qom un June 24
JUNE 24, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 37 ETHIOPIANS AMONG SCORES OF FOREIGN NATIONALS AT ‘IMMINENT RISK’ OF EXECUTION
At least 37 Ethiopian men are facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia for drug-related offences, according to
- JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on June 24
JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Qom on June 24
JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fereydoun Naziri and Hadi Nasri executed in Qom on June 24
JUNE 23, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER NATIONAL POLITICAL ADVISER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION
Liu Yuejin, a former national political adviser, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes of more than 121 million yuan ($16.83 million), a court in Fujian province announced on June 23, 2025.
JUNE 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh executed in Ghezel-Hesar on June 23
- JUNE 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Soleimani executed in Arak on June 23
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JUNE 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Concern for the fate of Ahmadreza Djalali
Doctor accused of spying for Israel
- JUNE 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hedayat Manshari executed in Ardabil on June 22
JUNE 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Mosayebi executed on June 22
On charges of Espionage for Israel, hours after strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites
JUNE 22, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: DEATH AND LIFE SENTENCES ISSUED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A court in Najaf, southern Iraq, on June 22, 2025 handed down death and life sentences to four individuals convicted of drug trafficking.
JUNE 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on the first week of the Iran- Israel war
Hengaw special report
JUNE 20, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Michelle Lyons watched nearly 300 executions
JUNE 20, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Federal judge vacates death penalty for Todd Wessinger
JUNE 19, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG THREE IN TAKHAR AND MAIDAN WARDAK AMID ONGOING PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS
Taliban have publicly flogged three people, including a woman, in separate incidents in northern and central Afghanistan, the group’s Supreme Court announced on June 18, 2025.
JUNE 19, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE OF STEPDAUGHTER IN KERANIGANJ
A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death for the rape of his stepdaughter in Dhaka’s South Keraniganj four years ago.
JUNE 19, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTanzania - Lissu, nonviolent opposition leader, faces death sentence
On summary charges of ‘high treason”
JUNE 18, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: SYABU TRAFFICKER’S DEATH SENTENCE REPLACED WITH LIFE IMPRISONMENT
A self-employed man, who received the capital punishment for trafficking in syabu, escaped the hangman’s noose after the Court of Appeal in Kota Kinabalu on June 17, 2025 substituted it with an imprisonment for life.
- JUNE 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men execute in Tabriz on June 18
Hadi Ahmadian, Abbas Partovi, Mohammad Shokri
JUNE 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Haghverdi executed in Qom on June 18
JUNE 17, 2025KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: AFTER 18 YEARS IN JAIL, COURT APOLOGISES TO MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Lulu Adu was just 17 when he was sentenced to die in Kenya. Eighteen years later, a court finally acknowledged its mistake — and set him free, The Star reported on June 17, 2025.
JUNE 17, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DRUG TRAFFICKER, 58, AVOIDS DEATH PENALTY BY 0.01G, SENTENCED TO 31 YEARS’ JAIL
A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to 31 years’ jail in Singapore over drug trafficking offences that saw him avoid the death penalty by 0.01g, The Straits Times reported on June 12, 2025.
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 16, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: JOURNALIST EXECUTED AFTER SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON
A prominent Saudi journalist who was arrested in 2018 and convicted on terrorism and treason charges has been executed, the kingdom said. Activist groups maintain that the charges against him were trumped up.
- JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Fekri executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 16
On charges of espionage for Israel
JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Nazemi executed in Ahvaz on June 16
JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Dehghan executed in Shiraz on June 16
- JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on June 16
- JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Davoudi and Houshang Morovati executed in Yasui on June 16
- JUNE 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yashar Amini executed in Yasuj on June 15
- JUNE 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Gonabad on June 15
- JUNE 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Ezati (Ezzati) executed in Zanjan on June 15
- JUNE 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Faramarz … executed on June 14 in Kermanshah
- JUNE 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Joghatay executed in Sabzevar on June 14
JUNE 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Any expression of joy at Israel's attacks will be prosecuted as a crime
JUNE 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Regime muzzles media with grim death penalty warning
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JUNE 13, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Stephen Stanko, 57, White, was executed on June 13
JUNE 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR and Hengaw: Warns of Execution of Defendants Accused of Espionage for Israel
JUNE 13, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Jury sentences Oscar Rosales to death
55, Hispanic
- JUNE 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Vaezi executed in Semnan on June 13
- JUNE 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Vaezi executed in Semnan on June 13
JUNE 12, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KOLKATA HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF EX WHO STABBED GIRL 45 TIMES
Calcutta High Court on June 11, 2025 commuted the death penalty awarded to a 24-year-old, for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 45 times, to life imprisonment without remission for 40 years.
JUNE 12, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. John Hanson, 61, Black, was executed on June 12
Per lethal injection, the 22nd execution of 2025 in the US
- JUNE 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shapour Ashkani executed in Shushtar on June 12
JUNE 12, 2025JapanDEATH PENALTYEX-MONGOLIA LEADER URGES JAPAN LAWMAKERS TO END DEATH PENALTY
A former Mongolian president known for abolishing his country's death penalty urged Japanese lawmakers in a recent interview to take the same step despite the public's continued support for executions.
JUNE 11, 2025KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: KIBERA COURT SENTENCES SERIAL PHONE THIEF TO DEATH
A Kenyan court has handed a death sentence to Isaac Khanga after finding him guilty on two counts of robbery with violence, KBC Digital reported on June 10, 2025.
JUNE 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mojahed Kourkour Hanged in Ahvaz on June 11
JUNE 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 11
Ardeshir Soltanabadi, Masoud Naseri, Sajad Moradian
- JUNE 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahin Karami executed in Ardabil on June 11
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 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naghi Soufian executed in Ahar on June 11
- JUNE 11, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COURT CLERK SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR LAWYER'S MURDER
A Dera Ghazi Khan court clerk has been sentenced to death and fined Rs600,000 after being found guilty of murdering a junior lawyer within the premises of the district court.
- JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed in undisclosed place and date
None of them identified
JUNE 10, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Anthony Wainwright, 54, White, was executed on June 10
By lethal injection
JUNE 10, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG WOMAN AND 13 MEN ACROSS FOUR PROVINCES
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that 14 individuals, including one woman, were publicly flogged across four provinces of Afghanistan.
JUNE 10, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Gregory Hunt, 65, White, was executed on June 10
By nitrogen gas
JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Jalalian executed in Isfahan on June 10
JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Rezaei executed in Arak on June 10
JUNE 10, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Gov. DeSantis signs expansion of capital punishment
HB 1283/SB 1804
- JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadegh Asgari executed in Arak on June 10
JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men amputated of hands in Isfahan
JUNE 10, 2025North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREAN ESCAPEES SPEAK AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, DRAWING ANGER FROM PYONGYANG
One North Korean woman described how her father died of starvation. Another said her friends were publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean television dramas. North Korea’s ambassador appeared unmoved. When he got up to speak, he described i
- JUNE 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Murad Rezaei executed in Zanjan on June 10
JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolsamad Barahui executed in Iranshahr on June 9
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 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolbaset Shahdadzehi executed in Zahedan on June 9
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JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Hemmati and Hamzeh Yari executed in Karaj on June 9
- JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Khorrami executed in Karaj on June 9
- JUNE 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Hajibabaei executed in Malayer on June 9
JUNE 9, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. No Death Penalty Against Richard Glossip in Retrial
JUNE 8, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: NIGER PARDONS 11 INMATES ON DEATH ROW
Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State has granted unconditional state pardon to 11 convicted persons who were on death row.
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mirbalochzehi executed in Iranshahr on June 8
- JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davoud Alinajad executed in Arak on June 8
- JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shirzad Fahimi executed in Shirvan on June 8
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Samadi and Mojtaba Taheri executed in Shiraz on June 8
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Heidarzadeh executed in Maragheh on June 8
JUNE 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahim Karimi executed in Ghaen on June 8
JUNE 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Mashhad on June 7
Zobeid Ali Maleki, Yashar Haghdoust, Jafar Veisi and a man only identified as Salim
- JUNE 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Amini and Mehdi Moghadam executed in Qazvin on June 6
- JUNE 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Afshin Yari executed in Malayer on June 2
JUNE 5, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN RELEASE OR EASE SENTENCES OF OVER 2,500 PRISONERS AHEAD OF EID
The Taliban have released 1,559 prisoners and shortened the sentences of 950 others on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the group’s supreme court announced on June 4, 2025.
JUNE 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Firing squad, electric chair, nitrogen gas, injection: US expands execution methods
JUNE 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES OF PRADEEP, LIAKAT
The High Court (HC) on June 2, 2025 upheld the death sentences of former OC Pradeep Kumar Das and former inspector Liakat Ali in the widely discussed murder case of Major (Retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
JUNE 4, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 2 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING MINOR SISTERS
A special SC/ST court in Hathras (Uttar Pradesh) has sentenced two men in their 30s to death for murdering two minor sisters in their sleep and attempting to kill their parents over a property dispute, Times of India reported on May 30, 2025.
- JUNE 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadullah Esmaeili executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 4
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Ghafari executed in Yasuj on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Nabizadeh executed in Urmia on June 3
Or June 2
JUNE 3, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 8-YR-OLD GIRL
A special court in Madhubani (Bihar) on May 31, 2025 sentenced two men, Sushil Rai and Om Prakash Jha, to death for the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old dalit girl.
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Behzadi executed in Manujan on June 3
- JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shoaib Abdulhaq Mohammadi executed in Taybad on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Scott Panetti Dies on Death Row of Natural Causes on May 26
Prisoner in Landmark Competency Case
JUNE 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholi Faramarzi executed in Tabriz on June 3
JUNE 3, 2025LesothoDEATH PENALTY13 COUNTRIES URGE LESOTHO TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Lesotho has been urged by 13 countries to formally abolish the death penalty, maintain its de facto moratorium on executions, and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP2), which seeks to e
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nadim Davoudi executed in Kahnouj on June 2
575 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Navid Hedavand Khani and Naeem Naseri executed in Hamedan on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Sabeghi executed in Kahnouj on June 2
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JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 2
Alireza Shahbazi, Ali Karami Nasr, Ali Abbasi
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 executions in Ghezel Hesar on on June 2
Ali Karami Nasr, Alireza Shahbazi, Ali Abbas-Moghaddam, Sajad Nabizadeh, Yasin Aghaei, Nazir Mohammad, Behzad..., + 2 unidentified
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Amin Rastegari executed in Semnan on June 2
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Almasi and Jebreal Hashemzadeh, two cousins, executed in Isfahan on June 2
JUNE 2, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. New DNA testing proves innocence of Kenneth Clair
Man who has spent 40 years in prison
JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - In May, more than 5 executions per day
157 according to Hrana, 163 to Hengaw, 174 to HoC
- JUNE 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Kheradmand executed in Ghezel Hesar on 2 June
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Lejei and Fakhrollah Shiruzehi executed in Bam on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mansouri executed in Kerman on June 1
- JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahriar Khalafi executed in Qom on June 1
- JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karim Shah Mohammadi executed in Qom on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoumeh Karbakhsh Executed in Kerman on June 1
- JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahmirza Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jomaa Narouei executed in Zahedan on June 1