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
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Hassan Kahrazehi, Abedin Kahrazehi, Milad Narouyi
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Zeinali executed in Arak on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hafiz Siahkhani executed in Iranshahr on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Kayle Bates, 67, Black, was executed
State’s 10th execution of 2025
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Safarali Keyfari, Milad Narouei + Unk.
AUGUST 19, 2025IllinoisDEATH PENALTYUSA - Illinois. Robert Melock, sentenced to death in 1989, obtains a “certificate of innocence” from the court
After 34 years of incarceration. Exoneree n. 201
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Arjangi executed in Ardabil on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Joghatay executed in Sabzevar on August 19
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davood Kashani executed in Hamedan on August 18
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Omidi-Moghadam and Iman Jouzi executed in Khorramabad on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Sedghi and Arash Mahjour executed in Isfahan on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Ghasemi executed in Amol on August 18
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Ahvaz on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Younesi and Mehdi Najafi executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Rahimzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Soheili and Nader Sepahdar executed in Mashhad on August 17
AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a political prisoner, has been upheld
By the Supreme Court
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Sadeghi executed in Rasht on August 16
AUGUST 16, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - It is increasingly clear that the Guantanamo trials are impossible
The families of the victims are now resigned to this fact
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Fathi and Siamand Sa’adati executed in Sari on August 16
- AUGUST 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Esfandiari executed in Hamedan on August 13
AUGUST 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Bazmandegan and Mohammad Kashifi executed in Shiraz
On security-related charges
- AUGUST 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Yousefi and Omid Azizian executed in Mashhad on August 6
- AUGUST 12, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - North Carolina. 5 men convicted 20 years ago for murder acquitted
Nathaniel and Rayshawn Banner, Christopher Bryant, Jermal Tolliver, and Dorrell Brayboy
- AUGUST 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Sarlak executed in Dezful on August 12
- AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khamenei orders destruction of victims’ graves
To cover up evidence of the 1988 Massacre
AUGUST 11, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Business Leader Calls for End to “Broken” Death Penalty System
Matthew Stepka, on behalf of a coalition of over 500 business leaders
AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zaker Aramesh executed in Isfahan on August 11
- AUGUST 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Sagvand executed in Khorramabad on August 11
860 executions in 2025