Chronological archive
September 2025
The 212 news items published by Hands Off Cain in September 2025, in chronological order.
IRAN - Mahmoud Gheitarani executed in Sanandaj on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamali Nazarian executed in Kermanshah on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Victor Tony Jones, 64, Black, was executed on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jury sentences Jesse Patrick McClure to death
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Ashiri amputated of 4 fingers on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Younes Mardani and Farhad Faraji executed in Isfahan on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA SENTENCES 11 MEMBERS OF MAFIA FAMILY TO DEATH
A Chinese court on September 29, 2025 sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Atash Shakarami sentenced to receive 38 lashes
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men sentenced to death on charges of “collaboration with the Zionist regime”
Also accused of having links with the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK)
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Choubi Asl executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 29
On charges of “intelligence collaboration” with Israel
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 29
Milad Kiani, Mehran Jafari, and Behnam Mirahmad
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qom on September 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Jeyran Zaheri, and Mohammadreza Mohammadi-Berenjgani executed in Isfahan on September 29
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Badr-Abadi executed in Malayer on Setember 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Rasht on September 29
Jafar Pourvardi, Heydar Rezaipour, Houshang Rahmantalab
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Bakhshi executed in Semnan on September 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: EX-AGRICULTURE MINISTER SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE FOR HUGE BRIBES
Tang Renjian, former minister of agriculture and rural affairs, has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery, a court in Changchun, Jilin province, announced on September 28, 2025.
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unk executed in Babol on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Nouri executed in Arak on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Rahimi-Tabar and Ghodrat Dehqani executed in Shiraz on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khashayar Amiri executed in Gorgan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Jiroft on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salahaddin Aghamohammadi executed in Yasuj on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Samsari and Saman Samsari executed in Sari on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Koroush Saadati executed in Kashan on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ghorbanifar executed in Bam on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on September 28
Esmail Rahimitabar, Mehran Sahrayi, Manouchehr Shahbazi and Ghodrat Dehghani
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Beyranvand executed in Malayer on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Nahavand on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Farahbash executed in Mashhad on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Shahlaeinia executed in Kerman on September 28
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aziz Ghorbanifar executed in Bam on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER, ARMED ROBBERY IN AKWA IBOM
Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo on September 26, 2025 sentenced a dismissed soldier with the Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion, Ibagwa in Abak, Corporal Stephen Iweh, to death by hanging for the murder of a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on September 27
Younes Ahmadi, Mehdi Veisi and Ghodrat Nazari
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Kadkhodaei executed in Isfahan on September 27
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: APEX COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY ON SRI AMAN PHARMACIST CONVICTED OF 2018 MURDER OF CHINESE NATIONAL WIFE
Kuching Federal Court on September 23, 2025 upheld the death sentence imposed on a Sri Aman pharmacist convicted of murdering his wife in 2018.
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 25, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jury recommends death penalty for Jose Antonio Soto Escalera
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS 17 IN KABUL AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT PERSISTS
The Taliban publicly flogged 17 people in Kabul on drug-related charges on September 22, 2025, the group’s supreme court announced, as corporal punishment continues across Afghanistan.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, White, was executed on September 25
Using nitrogen gas
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Blaine Milam, 35, White, was executed on September 25
33rd execution of the year in the US
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIS SEVEN-YEAR-OLD NIECE IN UP'S SITAPUR
A court in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur on September 18, 2025 awarded the death penalty to a 38-year-old man for the rape and murder of his seven-year-old niece, a government lawyer said on September 19, adding that the court also imposed a fine of Rs 13,000 o
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: MURDER CONVICT GETS 22 YEARS AFTER APPEALING DEATH SENTENCE
The High Court in Eldoret has issued a major ruling reducing the sentence of a man who had spent more than a decade on death row.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Farah-Avar’s death sentence upheld
Political prisoner
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
Ahmad-Reza Geravand, Farshad Geravand, and Amir …
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 24
Mahnaz Dehqani, Kamran Amirzadegan, and Seyed Morad Hemmat
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Karami and Jaber Asgari executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on September 24
Ali Keshavarz, Sajad Aslani, Ahmad Bakhtiar, Keyvan Rahmati
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Saberi executed in Ilam on September 24, 2025
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Navahand on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Mehdipour executed in Ilam on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahan Houshmand executed in Ahvaz on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aria Soltani executed in Shiraz on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Mahdinejad executed in Ghezel-Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Keyvan Mohammadi executed in Zanjan on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Roya Abbas-zadeh executed in Zanjan on September 24
A 25-year-old Turkish woman
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kolsoum Akbari handed 10 death sentences for poisoning 11 husbands
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Mahdipur executed in Ilam on September 23, 2025
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 87th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: 5 PRISONERS HANGED AS 3 ESCAPE GALLOWS
The Ministry of Interior executed five individuals on January 19, 2025 morning, including three Kuwaiti men, a Kuwaiti woman and an Arab expatriate.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF FAKE HEALER TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Calcutta High Court on September 18, 2025 commuted the death sentence of a 45-year-old man - convicted of murdering a woman and her daughter - to a life sentence, but directed no remission for 40 years.
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Fathi executed in Sari on September 22
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FOUR DEFENDANTS SENTENCED IN INFANT KIDNAPPING CASE
The Tai'an Intermediate People's Court in Shandong province handed down sentences on September 19, 2025 for four defendants in a child trafficking case, with two receiving life imprisonment and one the death penalty.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolaziz Ghaljayi executed in Zahedan on September 21
1102 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Alizadeh and Vahid Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mousavi executed in Gachsaran on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on September 21
Saeed Ghobadi, Kazem Jamashourani and Hadi Nowruzi
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Yari executed in Arak on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Emad Keshvari executed in Taybad on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kaviar Khediripour executed in Mahabad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER
A General Court Martial of the Nigerian Army sitting at Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Jos, Plateau State, has sentenced one Private Lukman Musa to death by hanging.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Mahdavi and … Ahmadi executed in Taybad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Payman Jamshidi executed in Khorramabad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Borazjan on September 21
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urge judge to block death penalty
Because of actions that had violated his due process rights
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali-Mansour Vafaee executed in Tabriz on September 20
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Malayer on September 20
SEPTEMBER 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran’s Expanding Prison Protest Movement against Executions
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT, MURDER OF MINOR GIRL IN KARNATAKA
An additional district and sessions court-cum-fast track court in Mangaluru on September 10, 2025 convicted and sentenced a 51-year-old man to death after finding him guilty of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl in Mangaluru.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Calling for Life-Saving Medical Treatment for Zeinab Jalalian
Iran’s Longest Serving Female Political Prisoner
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Afagh executed in Mashhad on September 18
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 17
Abbas Yazdani, Nadim Ashrafzadeh and Abdolghader Sargolzayi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS OVER 20, INCLUDING A WOMAN, IN FOUR PROVINCES
The Taliban has publicly flogged 22 people, including a woman, in four provinces of Afghanistan over the past three days, the group’s supreme court announced on September 16, 2025.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: LAY JUDGES SENTENCE MAN TO DEATH FOR MURDER
A man who was charged with the murder of his wife, mother-in-law, and stepson in New Taipei City last year was sentenced to death on September 16, 2025 by a court panel that included six citizen judges, the New Taipei District Court said.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. David Pittman, 63, White, executed on September 17
12th execution in Florida and 31st in the US this year
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men execute in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
Ali Esmaili, Majid Hosseini, Omid Hassanzadeh, Rahman Sarlak, Babak Shahbazi + Unk Afghan
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Zahra Fotouhi, and Morteza Shirkhani executed in Tabriz on September 17
1069 executions in Iran in 2025
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Yeganeh executed in Semnan on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Hashami executed in Miandoab
The Execution Leads to Revenge Killings
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Hosseini executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Sabzevar on September 17
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- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Pirabbasi executed in Sabzevar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fazel Sohrabi executed in Neishabur on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisagh Rezayi and Hossein Yaganeh executed in Semnan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Reasons Behind Byron Black’s Painful Execution
Autopsy reveals “pulmonary congestion and edema”
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Farshad Bourkzehi executed in Gonabad on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Tajik executed in Shiraz on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Babak Shahbazi executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nadim Ashrafzadeh and Abdolqader Sargolzaei executed in Isfahan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mirabadi executed in Zanjan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafoor Behboudi and Abdolsalam Mir Panjshir executed in Taybad on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ COURT DELIVERS DEATH, PRISON SENTENCES IN TERRORISM CASES
The Al-Karkh Criminal Court on September 16, 2025 sentenced a defendant to death for killing five people in Al-Anbar province, the Iraqi judiciary announced.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING FATHER IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on September 14, 2025 sentenced a man to death for killing his father in 2020 over a family feud.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Yousefzehi executed in Gonabad on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolsamad Salarzehi and Abdolmajid Barahouyi executed in Birjand on September 16
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Okhatizadeh and Akbar Emami executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamreza Hariri and Nemat Khodabakhsh executed in Sari on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Noormohammad Chegali + Unk executed in Dastgerd on September 16
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hojjat Goodarzi executed in Aligudarz on September 16
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES EX-SOLDIER TO DEATH FOR AL-SHABAAB ATTACK
A Somali military court on September 1st, 2025 sentenced former soldier Mohamed Bulle Mumin to death after finding him guilty of collaborating with Al-Shabaab and orchestrating a deadly ambush in Kismayo.
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA: FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
The Medan District Court on June 25, 2025 sentenced four men to death for trafficking 40 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Hossein Hemmati and Unk. executed in Jiroft on September 15
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mirza Vali Sotoudeh executed in Khorramabad on September 15
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Bozhabadi and Farshad Khosravi executed in Sabzevar on September 15, 2025
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Rashedi executed in Ramhormoz on September 15
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Koshafar executed in Sanandaj on September 15
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Amoudi executed in Borazjan on September 15
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA EXECUTES PEOPLE FOR SHARING FOREIGN FILMS AND TV, UN REPORT SAYS
North Korea has executed people for distributing foreign media, including television shows like popular South Korean dramas
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Peyman Ajami and Rasoul Paydar executed in Hamedan on September 14
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Parki executed in Zahedan on September 14
1035 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Javad Mortazavi executed in Ahvaz on September 14
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- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Qavam Najafi and Amirhossein Pouramini executed in Shiraz on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Mozaffari executed in Yasuj on September 14
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Dolati and Farhad Sepehvand executed in Khorramabad on September 14, 2025
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elyas Shiroozehi executed in Zahedan on September 14
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maziar Karami and Peyman Ajami executed in Hamedan on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Paydari executed in Qom on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kazem Mousavi executed in Rasht on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on September 14
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Mohajer executed in Mashhad on September 14
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Sarani executed in Kashmar on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Haqi and Majid Soleimani executed in Ilam on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Sarani executed in Kashmar on September 14
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY TRIBUNAL EXECUTES 3 AL-SHABAAB TERRORISTS
A military court in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, executed three al-Shabaab terrorists by firing squad on August 7, 2025 for carrying out killings and assassinations in the southwestern region of Lower Shabelle.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT HANGS 7 CONVICTS, SPARES 1
Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior on September 11, 2025 executed seven convicts at the Central Prison, Al-Seyassah daily reported.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafez Ghavidast executed in Rasht on September 13
SEPTEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rouhollah Rostami executed in Hamedan on September 13
SEPTEMBER 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - What’s Behind the Execution Surge of 2025?
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Naser Bekrzadeh sentenced to death
For the second time
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC REDUCES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE, JUNKS RAPE CHARGE
The Calcutta High Court on September 1st, 2025, commuted the death penalty of a 42-year-old man convicted of the murder of a six-year-old at Uttarpara to life imprisonment
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA EXECUTES TWO SOLDIERS CONVICTED OF AIDING AL-SHABAAB IN COMMANDER’S KILLING
Two members of the Somali National Army (SNA) were executed on August 11, 2025, following convictions by the Armed Forces Court over links with the al-Shabaab fighters, a group that has destabilized peace in the country for two decades.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Update on the condition of the Foremans
British nationals arrested while crossing Iran on motorbikes
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR ‘JOINING A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’
Saudi authorities on September 9, 2025 executed Sultan bin Amer bin Abdullah Al-Shehri, bringing the total number of executions in 2025 close to 300.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadigheh Abadi and Younes Mazarshams executed in Qazvin on September 11
Wife and husband
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA EXECUTES THREE AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS CONVICTED OF DEADLY ATTACKS IN MOGADISHU AND LOWER SHABELLE
Somalia’s military court has carried out the death sentence by firing squad against three convicted members of the militant group Al-Shabaab, officials confirmed on August 14, 2025 morning.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING ECSTASY PILLS
A North Sumatra court on September 4, 2025 sentenced 36-year-old M. Alfarisi to death for acting as a courier in the trafficking of nearly 4,833 ecstasy pills.
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Parsa and Abdollah Mohseni executed in Gorgan on September 10
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Youssef Asadi Kahbad and Ahmad Bani Asad executed in Ahvaz on September 10
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Khanmohammadi executed in Gorgan on September 10
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 3 GET DEATH FOR KILLING RICKSHAW PULLER OVER WIFE’S ILLICIT AFFAIR; 2 GET LIFE, WOMAN ACQUITTED
A Dehradun court on August 22, 2025 awarded the death penalty to three men for murdering a rickshaw puller in Nov 2022 by forcing him to drink alcohol and smashing his head with a stone.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN HANG MAN IN PUBLIC IN HERAT AFTER EXECUTION-STYLE SHOOTING
Sources have confirmed that Taliban members in western Afghanistan shot a man dead and hanged his body in public on August 22, 2025.
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- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammadpanah and Hamid Farjam executed in Qom on September 9
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Abdoli executed in Dezful on September 9
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Razavi executed in Kerman on September 9
SEPTEMBER 9, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: TWO KHARIJITES EXECUTED FOR MURDERS IN MOGADISHU
The Military Court of the Armed Forces on August 20, 2025 carried out the execution of two convicted members of the Kharijite terrorist group, who were found guilty of committing multiple murders in the capital, Mogadishu.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SECURITY FORCES EXECUTE TWO AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS IN MOGADISHU BY FIRING SQUAD
The Somali authorities on August 25, 2025 executed Anas Abdulqadir Ali Mahmoud “Salman” and Aden Mursal Mohamed Lidow, members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, who were convicted of carrying out bombings and targeted killings.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: WOMAN EXECUTED IN MECCA FOR KILLING HUSBAND WITH ACID
Saudi authorities said on September 7, 2025 they had carried out the execution of a Saudi woman in the western region of Mecca after she was convicted of murdering her husband by pouring acid on him as he slept.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1,008 executions since the beginning of 2025
By 31 December the death toll could reach 1,500
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadali Gholizadeh executed in Malayer on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shamlu executed in Hamedan on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Lordegan on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammad-Panah executed in Qom on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Rahmani and Kamyar Najafzadeh executed in Kermanshah on September 8
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political Prisoner Pejman Toubrehrizi sentenced to death
On the charge of membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POSSESSING AND TRAFFICKING HEROIN
Colombo High Court Judge R.S.S. Sapuwidha on September 4, 2025 sentenced a 52-year-old married woman to death after finding her guilty of possessing and trafficking 41.65 grams of heroin.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER OFFICIAL OF MINISTRY SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR LEAKING STATE SECRETS
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on September 4, 2025 revealed that a former official of a state ministry was lured into befriending a spy, then blackmailed using compromising information, ultimately leading to his conviction for espionage and a d
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Tabriz on September 7
Keyvan Mamadi, Najib Azarm, Babak Omarzadeh, Houshang Hanareh, and Tawfiq Ne’mati
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Mirbaluchzehi executed in Manujan on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Rafiei and Abdolreza Karimi executed in Arak on September 7
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IRAN - Masoud Ghanbarzehi executed in Zahedan on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dariush Bahrami executed in Karaj on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Taleb Tavakoli executed in Dezful on September 7
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IRAN - Sadegh Bahmani and Mojtaba Salemi executed in Tabriz on September 7
7 executions in Tabriz that day
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahriar Dehvari executed in Babolsar on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Further information on the execution of Najib Azarm in Tabriz on 7 September
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 6
Taher Rasoulpour, Mohammad Bikar, Moslem Salehkhani
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Bahramian executed in Isfahan on September 6
A “Woman, Life, Freedom” proteste
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IRAN - Farzad Mohibi executed in Qazvin on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yasin Afshari executed in Qom on September 6
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Azad Moradi executed in Sanandaj on September 6
SEPTEMBER 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - A Conservative against the death penalty
Demetrius Minor, director of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS 13 PEOPLE FOR ADULTERY AND DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES
The Taliban publicly flogged 13 people, including a woman, in Kabul over the past two days for adultery and drug-related offenses, the group’s supreme court announced on September 2, 2025.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UP MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 8-YEAR-OLD DALIT GIRL
A special SC/ST court in Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) on September 2, 2025 awarded the death penalty to a 50-year-old man for abducting, raping and murdering an eight-year-old Dalit girl in 2020, calling it a "rarest of rare case for its brutality".
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on September 4
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IRAN - Ebrahim Safari executed in Yazd on September 4
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IRAN - 3 men executed in Yazd on September 4
Mohammad Salehi, Ebrahim Safari, Mohsen Amiri
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Updates on the Glossip case
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025ItalyDEATH BY PUNISHMENTITALY - Hands off Cain in Venice 2025
“The Human Rights Barrier”
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO BURNT ALIVE WIFE OVER SKIN COLOUR
A court in India on August 30, 2025 gave the death penalty to a man for burning alive his wife over her skin colour.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valiollah Avazpour executed in Gachsaran on September 3
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA - Update on the situation of Tundu Lissu
Lissu's vicissitudes brought to the Venice Film Festival
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Qom on September 3
Mehrdad Iravani, Rouhollah Hakemi, Nezam Hakemi, Allahbakhsh Mirjahani
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Karaj on September 3
Habib Atayi, Reza Aghajani, Sajad Sadeghi, Naser… + 2 Unk
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IRAN - A.F. executed in unspecified prison on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Asgari and … Darvishpour executed in Tabriz on September 3
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahman Ali Akbari executed in Kermanshah on September 3
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IRAN - Seyed Kazem Mousavi executed in Rasht on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bijan Hosseinpanah executed in Zanjan on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houman Geravand executed in Karaj on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN TEACHER’S DEATH SENTENCE TO BE REVIEWED BY APPEALS COURT
The case of an Afghan teacher sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy will go before a Taliban appeals court by the end of September, local sources in Paktika province said on August 31, 2025.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Babaei executed in Sanandaj on 2 September
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IRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Kermanshah on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahan Rashidi and Yaghoub Derikvand executed in Aligudarz on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 2 men executed in Zanjan on September 2
Gohar Taheri Aghdam, Bijan Hosseinpanah and Ahmad Alipour
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IRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Kermanshah on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naser Mahi-Dashti executed in Kerman on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025LaosDEATH PENALTYLAOS: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR METH TRAFFICKING
The Xayabouly Provincial People’s Court on August 27,2025 sentenced a 29-year-old man to death after convicting him of trafficking methamphetamine and crystal meth. The ruling became public on 30 August.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: SIX FLOGGED IN KABUL AS TALIBAN INTENSIFY PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS
The Taliban on August 30, 2025 publicly flogged six people in the Afghan capital after convicting them of drug‑related offenses, the group’s Supreme Court said.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ASSAM MAN, WHO KILLED WOMAN FOR REFUSING TO MARRY HIM, SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court in Assam's Dhemaji on August 21, 2025 sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of a college student in 2021.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDRC: MILITARY PROSECUTOR SEEKS DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT KABILA
A military prosecutor on August 21, 2025 demanded the death penalty for DR Congo's former president Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia on treason charges.