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
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Vafaei Faces Imminent Execution
Political Prisoner Transferred to Solitary Confinement
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Barakhas Farzi and Khodadad Khosravi executed in Khorramabad on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Ramin Zeleh sentenced to death
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Panahizadeh executed in Sanandaj on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Akhlaqi executed in Dezful on December 6
- DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alimorad Ansari and Hossein Kochar’I executed in Qazvin on December 6
DECEMBER 5, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Donovan Faison sentenced to death
DECEMBER 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Col. Jonathan Vaughn to Lead Guantánamo Defense Teams
- DECEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on December 5
- DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hosseinali Yeganeh executed in Birjand on December 4
- DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahim Mansouri executed in Kashmar on December 4
DECEMBER 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A Dhaka court on December 1st, 2025 sentenced a man to death for murdering his wife in the Dakshin Keraniganj area of the capital after she failed to fulfil his dowry demand.
- DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Artam Ghaffouri executed in Mahabad on December 4
DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Christian convert Morteza Faqanpour-Sasi sentenced to prison term
DECEMBER 4, 2025United NationsDEATH PENALTYUN - Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 60th session
DECEMBER 4, 2025Burkina FasoDEATH PENALTYBURKINA FASO - Burkina Faso plans to reintroduce death penalty
The country is governed by a military junta
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Farhadi executed in Ahar on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: 13-YEAR-OLD BOY CARRIES OUT PUBLIC EXECUTION OF MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
A public execution carried out by the Taliban in the eastern province of Khost on December 2, 2025 was conducted by a 13-year-old boy, local sources told Amu, adding that the man executed had been accused of killing 13 members of the child’s family.
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siavash Khosravi executed in Kashan on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On 2 December, Iran reached 1,800 executions since the beginning of 2025
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Namjoo executed in Bushehr on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Keyvan Shahbakhsh executed in Bam on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Manouchehr Ahmadi executed in Borazjan on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Chaboksavar executed in Shahr-e Kord on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Zahedi executed in Nishapur on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Mortezayi and Abufeiz Davodi executed in Semnan on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Javanmardi executed in Rasht on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amin Mahdavi executed in Mahshahr on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rana Faraj-Oghli, a woman, executed in Tabriz on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on December 3
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