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
NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Nahavand on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mosib Khalavand executed in Bandar Abbas on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Angel Gabriel Cuz Choc sentenced to death
- NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Habibi and Mohammadreza Basharat executed in Qazvin on November 16
NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jaber Saki and Jahan Rasouli executed in Dezful on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moslem Naderi executed in Isfahan on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Over 1,600 executions since the beginning of 2025.
At least 52 were women
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamyar Fathi and Sajjad Hatami executed in Kermanshah on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarmorad Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nour-Mohammad Rahmati executed in Aligudarz on November 15
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Gerayi executed in Behbahan on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2025South CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - South Carolina. Stephen Bryant, 44, White, was executed. By firing squad
It is the state’s third such killing in year
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Rafiei executed in Aligudarz on November 14
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Beigi executed in Yasuj on November 14
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mozaffar Rahmanpanah executed in Nishapur on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - British Prisoners Craig and Lindsay Foreman Go on Hunger Strike
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Urmia on November 14
Zabet al-Din (Adel) Jangjou Espidereh, Haji Nabizadeh and Abdolrahman Habibi
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Shamsollahi executed in Zanjan on November 14
1600 executions so far in 2025
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Confirmation of Death Sentences for 3 Political Prisoner
Farshad Etemadifar, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi
NOVEMBER 13, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA - Update on the case of Tundu Lissu
Political leader on death row in Tanzania
NOVEMBER 13, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Bryan Jennings, 66, White, was executed
NOVEMBER 13, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Tremane Wood granted clemency on the morning of his scheduled execution
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Safa Niazi executed in Shahrekord on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghomri Abbaszadeh, a woman, executed in Sari on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Navabi executed in Shiraz on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iraj Aghayi executed in Sari on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Sadeghi Ghoushchi and Vahid Pakniakan executed in Urmia on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IsraelDEATH PENALTYISRAEL: KNESSET ADVANCES BILL MANDATING DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS WHO KILLED ISRAELIS
Lawmakers on November 10 evening voted 39-16 in favor of the first reading of a controversial government-backed bill sponsored by Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech to impose the death penalty on terrorists who have killed Israelis.
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahriar Nami executed in Khaf on November 12
NOVEMBER 12, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: NITHARI KILLINGS ACCUSED TO WALK FREE AS SUPREME COURT ACQUITS HIM IN LAST CASE
The Supreme Court on November 11, 2025 set aside the conviction and life sentence of Surendra Koli in the last remaining murder case related to the infamous 2005-2006 Nithari killings in Noida, which drew widespread media attention and was the subject of