2025

IRAN - Hamid Kakavand and Ahmadali Mehripour executed in Karaj on August 30

USA - Utah. Ralph Menzies will not be executed on Sept. 5

Tanzania - Free Tundu Lissu

The leader of Chadema is on death row: who will save the man who dreams of a different Tanzania?

BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING CHILD

A Cox's Bazar court on August 26, 2025 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Moheshkhali upazila in 2022.

USA - Florida. Curtis Windom, 59, Black, was executed

30th execution this year in the US, Florida’s 11th

IRAN - Banoo Moghadam executed in Abhar on August 28

32nd woman executed in 2025

IRAN - Mehdi Raoufi executed in Karaj on August 28

IRAN - 8 men executed in Karaj on August 27

Faramarz Shahbazi, Mashallah Nikoufal, Ahmadali Mehripour, Kazem Fatemi, Fereydoun Mohammadi, Hossein Biabani, Hesam Mohammadi, Ahmad Yousefi

CHINA: FORMER HAINAN SENIOR OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE

Liu Xingtai, a former senior official from Hainan province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on for accepting bribes totaling more than 316 million yuan ($43.4 million), a court announced on August 26, 2025.

TAIWAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS REJECTION OF DEATH ROW INMATE RETRIAL REQUEST

Taiwan's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by death row inmate Cheng Yi-lung, confirming an earlier Taiwan High Court decision to deny his request for a retrial, CNA reported on August 27, 2025.

IRAN - Mohammad Ali Lashari executed in Isfahan on August 27

IRAN - Samad Seyedhosseini executed in Yasuj on August 27

IRAN - Majid Abedi executed in Semnan on August 27

IRAN - Samad Seyed Hosseini executed in Yasuj on August 27

IRAN - Hassan Safarian Executed in Shiraz on August 27

930 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025

IRAN - Mitra Yasamani executed in Shiraz on August 27

31st woman executed in Iran 2025

IRAN - Sajad Qolizadeh executed in Sanandaj on August 27

IRAN - Milad Mohammadsalihi executed in Shiraz on August 27

IRAN - Mohammadreza Moridan executed in Aligurdaz on August 27

IRAN - Arman Aghcheli executed in Gorgan on August 27

IRAN - Mohammad Ali Lashari and Hessam Dadkhah executed in Isfahan on August 27

IRAN - 83rd Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

BANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH, ONE GETS LIFE FOR CTG MURDER CASE

A Chattogram court on August 26, 2025 sentenced two men to death and another to life imprisonment for the 2020 murder of Mahfuzur Rahman at EPZ police station area.

IRAN - Behzad Navabi and Asef Rakhshani executed in Birjand on August 26

IRAN - Nawab Popalzai executed in Bandar Abbas on August 26

IRAN - Maliheh Haghi executed in Tabriz on August 26

30th woman executed in Iran in 2025

IRAN - Ehsan Khani executed in Navahand on August 26

USA - Trump Calls for Death Penalty in All D.C. Murder Cases

Washington D.C. abolished death penalty in 1981

IRAN - Ahmad Dehani executed in Zahedan on August 26

IRAN - Alimorad Naseri executed in Semnan on August 26