2025

NIGERIA: ADAMAWA GOVERNOR PARDONS FARMER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HERDER

Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri on December 23, 2025 granted a full pardon to Sunday Jackson, a farmer who was sentenced to death in 2019 for killing a herder during a confrontation on his farmland.

SAUDI ARABIA: THREE CITIZENS EXECUTED IN A SINGLE DAY

Saudi authorities on December 23, 2025 carried out the execution of three detainees from the eastern province of Qatif, a move that has drawn criticism from rights groups and opposition figures.

IRAN - 3 men executed in Qazvin on December 23

Mohammadjafar Babaei, Asghar Tavakoli, Ebrahim Hakimi

IRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh

IRAN - 8 men executed in various prisons on December 22

IRAN - Mohammadreza Madadi and Kazem Hamidi executed in Gorgan on December 22

IRAN - Taher Bastani executed in Isfahan on December 22

IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on December 22

Nariman Mohammadi, Eskandar Bakhshoudeh, Taher Bastani

INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO BEHEADED BROTHER COMMUTED TO 20-YEAR JAIL TERM

Making it clear that not every brutal murder warrants capital punishment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 22, 2025 commuted the death sentence of Ashok Kumar

IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 21

Fariborz Ghasemi, Reza Dastar, Kazem Sourian, Vahid Pazouki, Ali Mohammad Koushki, Amir Mohammad Jadidi, Fardin Khani, Ebrahim Mashayekhi + 1

IRAN - Morad Sheghnaei and Mohammad Babrian executed in Taybad on December 21

IRAN - Rastin Karami executed in Sanandaj on December 21

IRAN - Aghil Keshavarz executed in Urmia on 20 December

Convicted of spying for Israel

IRAN - Sajjad Marmozi executed in Ahvaz on December 20

IRAN - Moslem Salimi executed in Hamedan on December 20

IRAN - Behzad Hosseini-Rad executed in Kermanshah on December 20

IRAN - Kian Papi executed in Aligudarz on December 20

IRAN - Yashar Tehrani-Moqaddam executed in Karaj on December 20

IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Kalani executed in Nahavand on December 20

IRAN - Hesam Nozari executed in Ardabil on December 20

IRAN - Yarhossein Hassanvand executed in Khorramabad on December 20

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on December 20

INDIA: WOMAN AMONG FIVE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KURUKSHETRA DOCTOR’S MURDER

Two years after a doctor was killed in Haryana by robbers who had barged into her Kurukshetra residence, the court of additional district and sessions judge on December 20, 2025 sentenced four men and a woman to death in the case.

IRAN - Farhang Faramarzi Pour executed in Kahnuj on December 20

USA - Pennsylvania. Gov. Shapiro issues 1st reprieve, continuing moratorium

USA - Pennsylvania. Kevin Marinelli resentenced to life in prison without parole

USA - Florida. Frank Walls, 58, White, was executed on December 18.

47th execution of the year in the US, 19 in Florida alone

IRAN - Ariyo Niazi Vahdat executed in Kermanshah on December 18

IRAN - Karam Reza Karami executed in Bojnurd on December 18

IRAN - On 17 December, Iran reached and exceeded 2,000 hangings since the beginning of 2025