Chronological archive
July 2025
The 148 news items published by Hands Off Cain in July 2025, in chronological order.
KUWAIT: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FATAL ABUSE OF DOMESTIC WORKER
A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced a husband and wife to death by hanging for the fatal beating of their domestic worker.
JULY 31, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN FARIDPUR EASY BIKE DRIVER MURDER CASE
A court in Faridpur sentenced five people to death and another to 10 years’ imprisonment in the murder case of easy bike driver Shaukat Mollya.
JULY 31, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Edward Zakrzewski, 60, White, was executed on July 31st.
JULY 31, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Stay of impending execution of David Roberts
JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nahid Jokar executed in Shiraz on July 31
- JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahtab Bayati and Ali Ashraf Khani executed in Mashhad on July 31
JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 31
788 executions since the beginning of 2025
JULY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asadollah Sagvandi executed in Ahvaz on July 31
- JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Salehi executed in Shiraz on July 30
- JULY 30, 2025FranceDEATH PENALTY
FRANCE: SERGE ATLAOUI RELEASED AFTER YEARS ON INDONESIA DEATH ROW
A Frenchman who spent almost two decades on death row in Indonesia over drug offences before being returned to France left prison on July 18, 2025 after being granted a conditional release.
- JULY 30, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Tanzania - Update on the Tundu Lissu affair
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Prisoner Executed in Public in Semnan Province on July 30
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Amini executed in Ilam on July 30
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jaber Salami and Abdolzaher Faghirdadi executed in Qom on July 30
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amputation carried out on 3 men
Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharifian and Mehdi Shahivand
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Amiri executed in Tabriz on July 30
JULY 30, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death sentence of David Wood to be reviewed
Appeals court sends case back to trial court
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Navid Rostami executed in Kermanshah on July 29
766 executions in Iran in 2025
JULY 29, 2025LebanonDEATH PENALTYLEBANON: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KILLING OF IRISH SOLDIER SEÁN ROONEY
A man has been sentenced to death in Lebanon over the killing of an Irish soldier on a UN peacekeeping mission, BBC News reported on July 29, 2025.
- JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nazir Mohammad + Unk executed in Birjand on July 29
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Shabestan executed in Sari on July 29
- JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Rikani executed in Ahvaz on July 29
- JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arash Mohammadi executed in Nahavand on July 29
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yehuda Hekmati, American-Jewish citizen, arrested
One of the two American-Jewish citizens recently detained in Iran
JULY 28, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES RAPIST'S DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT REMISSION
The Supreme Court of India on July 16, 2025 commuted a man's death penalty in a minor's rape and murder case to life in prison without remission.
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Isa Narouyi and Amir Ghanbari executed in Minab on July 28
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ismail Hajivand executed in Malayer on July 28
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Says Executions Limited To ‘Most Severe Crimes’
After UN Criticism
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN says Iran executions surge ‘deeply disturbing’
JULY 28, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Study: Do All Religions Support the Death Penalty?
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadeghollah Verdi executed in Tabriz on July 28
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JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoners Behrooz Ehsani Eslamlou and Mehdi Hasani executed in Karaj on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mirforoughi executed in Isfahan on July 27
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Moradian executed in Khorramabad on July 27
756 executions in 2025
- JULY 27, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. URGENT ACTION for David Roberts
Jury voted for life, execution scheduled for August 21
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Kashani and Naser Nazari Tehrani executed in Karaj on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Mirforughi and Saleh Hatami executed in Isfahan on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Special forces strormed Ghezel Hesar prison
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Akbari executed in Arak on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Shirbeigi executed in Qom on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Kashani and Naser Nazari Tehrani executed in Ghezel Hesar on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on July 27
Ahmad Mahdavi, Armin Gerayi, Saber Yari + 1 unidentified man
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoumeh Asgari, Masoumeh Nassaji, and Sayeh Seydal transferred to solitary confinement
The political prisoners protested detention conditions
- JULY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodayar Ahmadkhani executed in Taybad on July 26
JULY 26, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Shelby Nealy sentenced to death
- JULY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Shakeri executed in Zanjan on July 26
- 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 24, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE ENTERTAINER ZHANG YIYANG EXECUTED FOR MURDERING 16-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND
Chinese entertainer Zhang Yiyang, accused of murdering his 16-year-old girlfriend in 2022, was executed on December 18 in 2024, according to a detailed investigation report recently released by the Intermediate People's Court of Xianyang in North Shaanxi
- JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahangir Fouladi executed in Zanjan on July 24
- JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashkan Mehdipanah and Mehdi Heidari executed in Hamedan on July 24
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner, sentenced to death
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Mohammad Rezaei executed in Buin Zahra on July 24
JULY 23, 2025ArkansasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arkansas. Death penalty for child rapists law goes in to effect in August
JULY 23, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT ACQUITS 12 MEN IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBINGS THAT KILLED 187
A court in India has acquitted 12 men who had been convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings that killed 187 people and injured more than 800.
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Mahmoudian executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ruhollah Arab executed in Semnan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ronald Tabak, a pillar of the fight against the death penalty in the United States, has died
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Heydari executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Heydari Tarkashvand executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 23
Behzad Gholamzadeh, Latif Karegar, Saman Heydari
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jabbar Alishahi and Ashkan Mahdipanah executed in Hamedan on July 23
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JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Samalpour Baba Ahmadi executed in Yazd on July 23
- JULY 22, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SENATE PASSES BILL TO END DEATH PENALTY FOR KEY OFFENCES
A bill seeking to abolish the death penalty for harbouring hijackers and for publicly stripping a woman of her clothes was passed on July 18, 2025 by the Senate amidst voices of dissent from both sides of the aisle.
JULY 22, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Less Restrictive Conditions for Some on Death Row
JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Khorrami executed in Kermanshah on July 22
- JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Afrayi Mardakheh executed in Rasht on July 22
- JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Parsa executed in Aligudarz on July 22
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Zare executed in Arak on July 21
JULY 21, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN 1993 MURDER
An 80-year-old woman who had been sentenced to death in Sri Lanka by the Hambantota High Court for a 1993 murder was acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal on July 18, 2025 bringing an end to a 32-year legal battle.
JULY 21, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO MURDER ACCUSED
Gujrat district and sessions judge awarded the death sentence to a murder accused and also imposed a fine of Rs0.5 million.
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodabakhsh Sepehri executed in Rasht on July 21
JULY 21, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Do all victims’ family members support the death penalty?
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 unidentified prisoners executed in Yazd on July 21
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 woman 9 men executed in in Yazd on July 21
Atefeh Amini, Reza Akhiri, Ali Momeni, Bahram Seyed Nasiri, Amirhossein Hassan Khani (Hassankhani), Farkhreddin Raei and four unidentified men
- JULY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 political prisoners sentenced to death
JULY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executred in Zahedan on July 20
Abdoljalil Dorakzehi, Nematollah Shahnavazi, Nasir Shahbakhsh, ... Ghaljayi and two unidentified men
- JULY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Gorgan on July 19
Alireza Eshtarak, Mohammad Eshtarak + Unk
JULY 19, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY TALIBAN COURT OVER ALLEGED BLASPHEMY
A Taliban court in Afghanistan’s Paktika province has sentenced a man to death on charges of blasphemy, according to a spokesperson for the group.
- JULY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davoud Amani executed in Zanjan on July 19
JULY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Sarlak executed in Aligudarz on July 19
- JULY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Ahmadkhani executed in Aligudarz on July 19
- JULY 17, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC ACQUITS MAN ON DEATH ROW, ISSUES NATIONWIDE GUIDELINES ON DNA EVIDENCE HANDLING
The Supreme Court of India on July 15, 2025 acquitted a man on death row in a murder case, outlining the gaps in forensic evidence and issued countrywide directions on handling of DNA samples.
JULY 17, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Johnny Hoskins resentenced to life
- JULY 16, 2025YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN POSTPONES EXECUTION OF INDIAN NURSE ON DEATH ROW
Authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse who is on death row after being found guilty of murder, Indian foreign ministry sources say.
- JULY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Molan Abdolaziz Khani and Vahab Heidari executed in Qazvin on July 16
JULY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 political prisoners sentenced to death
Massoud Jamei, Alireza Mardasi and Farshad Etemadifar
- JULY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Ali Jahangiri executed in Sari on July 16
JULY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Rasht on July 16
Peyman Afshari, Hadi Garousi and Mehdi Babayi
- JULY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - The 77th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
- JULY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Yaghoub Moradi executed in Gorgan on July 15
JULY 15, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS TWO IN KABUL AND GHAZNI AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT PERSISTS
The Taliban flogged two individuals, including a woman, in Kabul and Ghazni provinces earlier this week, as the group continues carrying out corporal punishment despite widespread global condemnation, KabulNow reported on July 11, 2025.
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- JULY 15, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINIOT
The Additional Sessions Judge in Chiniot, Imtiaz Nadeem on July 14, 2025 sentenced Altaf Hussain to death twice and imposed a fine for his involvement in a double murder case.
JULY 15, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, Black, was executed on July 15
JULY 15, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: CITIZEN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry announced on July 13, 2025 the execution of a Saudi citizen in Mecca Province after his conviction for a second offense of drug trafficking.
JULY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kianush Khosravi Siahbidi executed in Kermanshah on July 15
704 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025 (at least)
- JULY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Jalilian Executed in Kermanshah on July 15
JULY 15, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA - Update on the Tundu Lissu case
Opposition leader arrested on vague charges
JULY 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afrooz Kian-Arsi is serving her sentence
The artist was sentenced for a mosaic titled "Woman, Life, Freedom"
- JULY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghasem Azizi executed in Birjand on July 14
JULY 14, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DRIVER
A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death for the murder of a taxi driver, Mr Olarenwaju Ajayi, sometime in 2001.
JULY 14, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WIFE, TWO OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CTG
A Chattogram court on July 14, 2025 sentenced a woman and two others to death for killing her husband over an extramarital relationship in 2021.
- JULY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Javad Kazemi executed in Arak on July 14
JULY 14, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Governor signs HB 675
Limiting Post-Conviction Appeals
- JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Yavari executed at Hamedan on July 13
JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Nazarbeigi executed in Hamedan on July 13
- JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mosaib Segvand executed in Khorramabad on July 13
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ilia Khalifehzadeh executed in public on July 12
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirza executed in Malayer on July 12
JULY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lennart Monterlos, a Franco-German Citizen, arrested in Iran
JULY 11, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Robert Bailey resentenced to death
- JULY 10, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA HAS NOW EXECUTED MORE THAN 100 FOREIGNERS THIS YEAR
Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death on July 10, 2025, pushing this year’s number of foreigners executed past 100 – a spike in capital punishment that human rights groups have strongly condemned.
- JULY 10, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Mid-Year Review: New Death Sentences Low, Increase in Executions
Death Penalty Information Center analysis
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Khoshkalam executed in Rasht on July 10
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six Months On, No Word From Detained British Couple in Iran
Craig and Lindsay Foreman
- JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qom on July 10
- JULY 9, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Catholic Church and capital punishment in the United States
Austin Sarat, Amherst College (Massachusetts)
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Tayeb Abdollahi and Naser Kazemzadeh executed in Shiraz on July 9
JULY 9, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING ENTIRE FAMILY
A man who murdered four members of his own family to free them from poverty has been sentenced to death by a Hanoi court on July 8, 2025.
JULY 9, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER SENIOR POLITICAL ADVISOR OF XINJIANG HANDED DEATH SENTENCE WITH REPRIEVE FOR BRIBERY
Dou Wangui, a former senior political advisor of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was sentenced on July 7, 2025 to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes.
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in public in Miandoab
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Shokripour Executed in Karaj on July 9
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- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadali Mahdinejad executed in Navahand on July 9
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolhossein Jaberi and Saeed Mehrabi executed in Karaj Central on July 9
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Mansouri executed in Malayer on July 9
- JULY 8, 2025BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR OVER PERSONAL DISPUTE IN SHAKHURA
The First High Criminal Court has sentenced a man to death for fatally stabbing his neighbour in the Shakhura area, News of Bahrain reported on July 8, 2025.
- JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on July 8
Alireza Bagheri, Mehran Habibi and Esmail Valipour
- JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 76th Week of No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign
In 47 Prisons Across Iran
- JULY 8, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - ACLU Report Shows How Death Penalty Jury Selection Discriminates
Against Black Americans, Women, and People of Faith
- JULY 8, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: SENIOR CITIZEN ACQUITTED OF MURDER, ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE
A senior citizen was acquitted and discharged by the Court of Appeal on July 7, 2025, setting aside his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his disabled stepsister-in-law six years ago.
- JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Rahmani executed in Ahvaz on July 8
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 kurdish political prisoners sentenced to death
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Khosravi and Saeed Asadzadeh Executed in Tabriz on July 7
JULY 7, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SIX MEMBERS OF A FAMILY
The IV additional district and sessions court in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) on June 27, 2025 sentenced 50-year-old Battina Appalaraju to death for killing six members of a family, including two children, in a revenge killing in April 2021.
- JULY 7, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 4 TO LIFE TERM IN JHENAIDAH
A Jhenaidah court on July 7, 2025 sentenced four people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing Sub-Inspector (SI) Mirajul Islam in 2011.
- JULY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Yarbigi executed in Arak on July 7
JULY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Ryan Cole formally sentenced to death
JULY 5, 2025IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Interesting controversy after the non-condemnation to death of Bryan Kohberger
- JULY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - UN Experts Warn Iran Against Renewed Wave of Repression After Ceasefire
JULY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris transferred to an undisclosed location
The French couple at the centre of yet another kidnapping by Iran
- JULY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - French couple face death penalty on spying charges
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris
JULY 3, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR EX-MILITARY DOCTOR IN KEVIN MORAIS MURDER CASE
The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence imposed on former military doctor R Kunaseegaran over the murder of deputy public prosecutor Kevin Morais 10 years ago, FMT reported on July 1st, 2025.
JULY 3, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: 11 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
The Hanoi People's Court sentenced two suspended police officers to death for transporting drugs and "assisting and covering up" in the trafficking of nearly 140 kg of narcotics.
JULY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri sentenced to death
JULY 2, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PHC UPHOLDS MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING MINOR DAUGHTER
Peshawar High Court has upheld sentence of death awarded to a convict by a trial court for killing his five-year-old daughter over suspicion of her legitimacy, Dawn reported on June 30, 2025.
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.
- JULY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jabar Pourmohammadi Maghani executed in Zanjan on July 2
- JULY 1, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: CRIMINAL COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO TWO OVER EXECUTION OF TOP CLERIC SADR
An Iraqi criminal court on June 30, 2025 sentenced two men to death for involvement in the execution of prominent Shia cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister during the brutal crackdown of former dictator Saddam Hussein on religious dissent.
- JULY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Ali Abedi executed in Ahar on July 1