2025

BANGLADESH: THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE, INCITING SUICIDE OF TEENAGER IN NETROKONA

A Netrokona court on July 28, 2025 sentenced three men to death for the gang rape of 14-year-old Panna, inciting her to kill herself in a 2017 case that drew public outrage.

NIGERIA: KWARA ISLAMIC CLERIC TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING FACEBOOK LOVER

A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital, on July 31, 2025 sentenced Abdulrahman Bello to death by hanging for the murder of 24-year-old Hafsoh Yetunde Lawal, a final-year student of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin.

SAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED OVER PROTESTS HE ATTENDED AS A 16-YEAR-OLD

Saudi Arabia executed Jalal Labbad on 21 August 2025 for crimes allegedly committed when he was under 18 years of age [a child].

IRAN - Asad Shabani executed in Nishapur on August 25

914 executions since the beginning of 2025

VIETNAM: KENYAN MARGARET NDUTA'S DEATH SENTENCE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING COMMUTED TO LIFE

Margaret Nduta, the Kenyan woman condemned to death in Vietnam for drug trafficking, can now heave a sigh of relief after a Vietnamese court on July 31, 2025 commuted her death penalty to a life sentence.

IRAN - Taher Firoozi executed in Gorgan on August 23

USA - Alabama. New trial for Christopher Barbour

NIGERIA: PRAWA BOSS CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY

Dr Uju Agomoh, Executive Director, Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), has renewed her call for the abolition of the death penalty in Nigeria.

SRI LANKA: THREE-WHEELER DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN KELANIYA

A 43-year-old three-wheeler driver was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court on August 21, 2025, after being found guilty of stabbing and killing a person with a sharp weapon following an argument.

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in public on August 21

In Kordkuy, Golestan

IRAN - Man hanged in public on August 21 identified as Taghi Damghani

IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on August 21

Abdol Sabzi, Shamsollah Kheiri, Mehdi Kazemi

IRAN - Abdolamir Hasangol executed in Dezful on August 21

IRAN - Ali Osat Akbari executed in Buin Zahra on August 21

IRAN - Mehsa Akbari executed in Shiraz on August 20

One day after her husband’s public execution

MYANMAR: JUNTA IMPOSES DEATH SENTENCE TO CRUSH ELECTION DISSENT

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlain has imposed harsh new punishments for disrupting his planned December election – including the death penalty – as the regime seeks to crush dissent ahead of the vote.

IRAN - Farshad Hamegan and Hossein Mokhtari executed in Rasht on August 20

SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES HARAMCAD OFFICER TO DEATH FOR KILLING UNARMED CIVILIAN

A Somali military court on August 2, 2025 sentenced a former officer from the Haram'ad special police unit to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of murdering an unarmed day labourer in a brazen, unprovoked shooting that has reignited public de

IRAN - Hossein Karimi and Taleb Rikani executed in Isfahan on August 20

IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on August 20

Hossein Karimi, Reza Abbasi, Taleb Reikani, Morteza Sayvand.

IRAN - Amir Mohammad Faroughi executed in Qorveh on August 20

IRAN - Naghi Shahi executed in Tabriz on August 20

IRAN - Mokhtar Fazeli executed in Ahvaz on August 20

USA - Pennsylvania. Paul Kendrick, 30, Black, sentenced to death

IRAN - Vali-Karam Jaberi executed in Qazvin on August 20

IRAN - Naghi Shahi and Yashar Lejehi executed in Tabriz on August 20

IRAN - Morteza Sayvand and Reza Abbasi executed in Isfahan on August 20

IRAN - State TV Airs Forced Confessions of Christian Converts

SAUDI ARABIA: 17 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN THREE DAYS

Saudi authorities put two people to death on August 4, 2025 to reach 17 in three days, state media said, as the conservative kingdom accelerated towards a record number of executions this year.

IRAN - Sajad Molayi Hakani executed in public on August 19

IHR considers it particularly serious that children witness hangings.