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
OCTOBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Overturned the death sentences of 5 political prisoners
Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, Pejman Soltani, Ali (Soran) Ghasemi, Kaveh Salehi, and Teyfour Salimi Babamiri
- OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siavash Karimi executed in Malayer on October 20
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Saedpanah executed in Esfarayen on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Moradi executed in Arak on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Omar Zardkouhi executed in Zahedan on October 26
1390 executions since the beginning of 2025
- OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Manouchehr Mehki executed in Aligudarz on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 26
… Dehghani + 2
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Mohammadi and Mohammadreza Nazari executed in Shiraz on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Moradi and Alireza Alimoradi executed in Hamedan on October 26
- OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Valiollah Samiei + 1 executed in Aligudarz on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Samad Agha Hosseini executed in Kashan on October 26
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asghar Manafi executed in Hamedan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: OVER 800 PERSONS ON DEATH ROW
A total of 826 individuals are on death row at present (October 2025), Commissioner of Prisons and Media Spokesman Jagath Weerasinghe stated.
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahman Hosseinian and Mohammad Osmani executed in Dezful on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarhossein Bahri executed in Khorramabad on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Davarpanah executed in Hamedan on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Nazari and Meysam Bagheri executed in Rasht on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Sabzi executed in Shahroud on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 6 men executed in Rasht on October 25
Mahbubeh Jalali, Kourosh Nasrollahzadeh, Farhad Hatami, Amir Nazari, Meysam Bagheri, Siamak Khadem, and Hamed Hanifeh
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siamak Khadem and Hamed Hanifeh executed in Rasht on October 25
- OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mobin Hayati executed in Doroud on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamal Zare executed in Bam on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Ahmadi executed in Qom on October 25
44th woman executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025
OCTOBER 24, 2025TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Serious anomalies in the execution of Byron Black
OCTOBER 23, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Anthony Boyd, 54, Black, was executed on October 23
By nitrogen suffocation
- OCTOBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - M.A. executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 23
OCTOBER 23, 2025KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTYUN CONDEMNS DEATH PENALTY REVIVAL IN KYRGYZSTAN AS VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on October 20, 2025 warned that the reinstation of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan would breach international law obligations.
OCTOBER 23, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYTALIBAN USES PUBLIC EXECUTIONS TO INSTIL FEAR AND CONTROL POPULATION, UN EXPERT SAYS
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, has condemned the Taliban’s latest public execution,
OCTOBER 22, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FRIEND OVER LOAN
A Kano State High Court, sitting at Court No. 15, has sentenced three men to death by hanging after finding them guilty of murdering a carpenter, Abba Aminu Yalwa, Daily Trust reported on October 20, 2025.
OCTOBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Abdi and Alireza Keshavarz executed in Shiraz on October 22