Archive timeline
2025
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2025, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2025
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Badr-Abadi executed in Malayer on Setember 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Rasht on September 29
Jafar Pourvardi, Heydar Rezaipour, Houshang Rahmantalab
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER, ARMED ROBBERY IN AKWA IBOM
Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo on September 26, 2025 sentenced a dismissed soldier with the Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion, Ibagwa in Abak, Corporal Stephen Iweh, to death by hanging for the murder of a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy.
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ghorbanifar executed in Bam on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Shahlaeinia executed in Kerman on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk executed in Babol on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Nouri executed in Arak on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Rahimi-Tabar and Ghodrat Dehqani executed in Shiraz on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khashayar Amiri executed in Gorgan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Jiroft on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salahaddin Aghamohammadi executed in Yasuj on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Samsari and Saman Samsari executed in Sari on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Koroush Saadati executed in Kashan on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ghorbanifar executed in Bam on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on September 28
Esmail Rahimitabar, Mehran Sahrayi, Manouchehr Shahbazi and Ghodrat Dehghani
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Beyranvand executed in Malayer on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Nahavand on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Farahbash executed in Mashhad on September 28
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on September 27
Younes Ahmadi, Mehdi Veisi and Ghodrat Nazari
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Kadkhodaei executed in Isfahan on September 27
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Blaine Milam, 35, White, was executed on September 25
33rd execution of the year in the US
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, White, was executed on September 25
Using nitrogen gas
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: APEX COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY ON SRI AMAN PHARMACIST CONVICTED OF 2018 MURDER OF CHINESE NATIONAL WIFE
Kuching Federal Court on September 23, 2025 upheld the death sentence imposed on a Sri Aman pharmacist convicted of murdering his wife in 2018.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE EXECUTES MALAYSIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER IN THE CITY-STATE’S 11TH EXECUTION OF THE YEAR
A Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on September 25, 2025 for drug trafficking, raising the number of executions in the city-state to 11 this year despite renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jury recommends death penalty for Jose Antonio Soto Escalera
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS 17 IN KABUL AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT PERSISTS
The Taliban publicly flogged 17 people in Kabul on drug-related charges on September 22, 2025, the group’s supreme court announced, as corporal punishment continues across Afghanistan.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIS SEVEN-YEAR-OLD NIECE IN UP'S SITAPUR
A court in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur on September 18, 2025 awarded the death penalty to a 38-year-old man for the rape and murder of his seven-year-old niece, a government lawyer said on September 19, adding that the court also imposed a fine of Rs 13,000 o
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: MURDER CONVICT GETS 22 YEARS AFTER APPEALING DEATH SENTENCE
The High Court in Eldoret has issued a major ruling reducing the sentence of a man who had spent more than a decade on death row.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Farah-Avar’s death sentence upheld
Political prisoner
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
Ahmad-Reza Geravand, Farshad Geravand, and Amir …