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 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Amini executed in Khorramabad on October 18
- OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran executes unidentified prisoner accused of espionage for Israel
OCTOBER 17, 2025ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona. Richard Djerf, 55, white, was executed on 17 October.
This was the 39th execution in the US in 2025, a record for the last 11 years.
OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hunger strike in Ghezel-Hesar Prison
Against the escalating wave of executions
OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Atash Shakarami to receive 38 lashes
- OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Cheraghi executed in Shahroud on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDRC - FORMER CONGO LEADER KABILA APPEARS AT KENYA POLITICAL MEETING DESPITE ABSENTIA DEATH SENTENCE
The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo appeared in public on October 15, 2025 for the first time since
- OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jaber Nadi (Naderi) + 1 executed in Kerman on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Yousefi executed in Qom on October 16
OCTOBER 15, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MADRAS HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE, SAYS ACCUSED NOT MENACE TO SOCIETY
Madras high court on October 11, 2025 commuted the death sentence awarded to a man to life imprisonment in a case where he murdered his cousin because she refused to give him money to settle his debts, in 2021.
OCTOBER 15, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA LEGISLATOR SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
Wang Bo, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes exceeding 449 million yuan ($62.88 million), a court in Hubei provin
OCTOBER 15, 2025MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Charles Ray Crawford, 59, White, was executed on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Jahani executed in Shiraz on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 15
Amir Reza Ghabadi, Majid Hatami, and Sajjad Hatami
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hazrat Esahqzai executed in Isfahan on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 15
Milad Jahani, Sajjad Shahriari Golmakani, + 1
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nahid Hemmati executed in Nahavand on October 15
41st woman executed in Iran this year
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - One woman and four men executed in Shiraz on 15 October
Kafieh Qobadzadeh, Sajad Shahriyari Golmakani, Touraj Rostami, Nasir Babamohammadi, Milad Jahani
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two unidentified men executed in Ghezel Hesar on October 15
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on October 15
Maziar Bahrami, Adel Shirkhani, Hazrat Eshaghzi
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Naeimi and Kazem Omidi executed in Ahvaz on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Khan-Babaei and Younes Jahandideh executed in Bandar Abbas on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Hagh-Panah executed in Mahabad on October 15
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Naeimi executed in Ahvaz on October 15
OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Bideli executed in Shiraz on October 15
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Maziar Fathi (Maziyar Fathi) executed in Taybad on October 15
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sultan Morad Mohammadi executed in Qom on October 15
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Gerousi and Shaban Ezzati executed in Tabriz on October 15
- OCTOBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Rafiq Gallehbacheh and Masoud Nemati executed in Arak on October 15
OCTOBER 14, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: GALMUDUG EXECUTES MAN FOR 2025 MURDER IN GURIEL DISTRICT
Authorities in the Galmudug region on October 9, 2025 executed a man convicted of a premeditated killing, marking the latest enforcement of capital punishment under Somali law.