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
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Shirbeigi executed in Qom on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Kashani and Naser Nazari Tehrani executed in Ghezel Hesar on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on July 27
Ahmad Mahdavi, Armin Gerayi, Saber Yari + 1 unidentified man
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoumeh Asgari, Masoumeh Nassaji, and Sayeh Seydal transferred to solitary confinement
The political prisoners protested detention conditions
- JULY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodayar Ahmadkhani executed in Taybad on July 26
JULY 26, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Shelby Nealy sentenced to death
JULY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Shakeri executed in Zanjan on July 26
- JULY 24, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
KENYAN MAN ON DEATH ROW IN SAUDI ARABIA FREED
A Kenyan man on death row in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade has been released after a lengthy campaign to save him from execution, a Kenyan foreign affairs ministry official has said.
- JULY 24, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE ENTERTAINER ZHANG YIYANG EXECUTED FOR MURDERING 16-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND
Chinese entertainer Zhang Yiyang, accused of murdering his 16-year-old girlfriend in 2022, was executed on December 18 in 2024, according to a detailed investigation report recently released by the Intermediate People's Court of Xianyang in North Shaanxi
- JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahangir Fouladi executed in Zanjan on July 24
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ashkan Mehdipanah and Mehdi Heidari executed in Hamedan on July 24
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner, sentenced to death
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Mohammad Rezaei executed in Buin Zahra on July 24
JULY 23, 2025ArkansasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arkansas. Death penalty for child rapists law goes in to effect in August
JULY 23, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT ACQUITS 12 MEN IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBINGS THAT KILLED 187
A court in India has acquitted 12 men who had been convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings that killed 187 people and injured more than 800.
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Mahmoudian executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ruhollah Arab executed in Semnan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ronald Tabak, a pillar of the fight against the death penalty in the United States, has died
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Heydari executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Heydari Tarkashvand executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 23
Behzad Gholamzadeh, Latif Karegar, Saman Heydari
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jabbar Alishahi and Ashkan Mahdipanah executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Samalpour Baba Ahmadi executed in Yazd on July 23
- JULY 22, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SENATE PASSES BILL TO END DEATH PENALTY FOR KEY OFFENCES
A bill seeking to abolish the death penalty for harbouring hijackers and for publicly stripping a woman of her clothes was passed on July 18, 2025 by the Senate amidst voices of dissent from both sides of the aisle.
JULY 22, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Less Restrictive Conditions for Some on Death Row
JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Khorrami executed in Kermanshah on July 22
- JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Afrayi Mardakheh executed in Rasht on July 22
- JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Parsa executed in Aligudarz on July 22
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Zare executed in Arak on July 21
JULY 21, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN 1993 MURDER
An 80-year-old woman who had been sentenced to death in Sri Lanka by the Hambantota High Court for a 1993 murder was acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal on July 18, 2025 bringing an end to a 32-year legal battle.