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 14, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DRIVER
A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death for the murder of a taxi driver, Mr Olarenwaju Ajayi, sometime in 2001.
JULY 14, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WIFE, TWO OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CTG
A Chattogram court on July 14, 2025 sentenced a woman and two others to death for killing her husband over an extramarital relationship in 2021.
JULY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Kazemi executed in Arak on July 14
JULY 14, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Governor signs HB 675
Limiting Post-Conviction Appeals
- JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Yavari executed at Hamedan on July 13
JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Nazarbeigi executed in Hamedan on July 13
JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mosaib Segvand executed in Khorramabad on July 13
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ilia Khalifehzadeh executed in public on July 12
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirza executed in Malayer on July 12
JULY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lennart Monterlos, a Franco-German Citizen, arrested in Iran
JULY 11, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Robert Bailey resentenced to death
- JULY 10, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA HAS NOW EXECUTED MORE THAN 100 FOREIGNERS THIS YEAR
Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death on July 10, 2025, pushing this year’s number of foreigners executed past 100 – a spike in capital punishment that human rights groups have strongly condemned.
- JULY 10, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Mid-Year Review: New Death Sentences Low, Increase in Executions
Death Penalty Information Center analysis
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Khoshkalam executed in Rasht on July 10
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six Months On, No Word From Detained British Couple in Iran
Craig and Lindsay Foreman
- JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qom on July 10
- JULY 9, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Catholic Church and capital punishment in the United States
Austin Sarat, Amherst College (Massachusetts)
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Tayeb Abdollahi and Naser Kazemzadeh executed in Shiraz on July 9
JULY 9, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING ENTIRE FAMILY
A man who murdered four members of his own family to free them from poverty has been sentenced to death by a Hanoi court on July 8, 2025.
JULY 9, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER SENIOR POLITICAL ADVISOR OF XINJIANG HANDED DEATH SENTENCE WITH REPRIEVE FOR BRIBERY
Dou Wangui, a former senior political advisor of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was sentenced on July 7, 2025 to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes.
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in public in Miandoab
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Shokripour Executed in Karaj on July 9
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadali Mahdinejad executed in Navahand on July 9
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolhossein Jaberi and Saeed Mehrabi executed in Karaj Central on July 9
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Mansouri executed in Malayer on July 9
- JULY 8, 2025BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR OVER PERSONAL DISPUTE IN SHAKHURA
The First High Criminal Court has sentenced a man to death for fatally stabbing his neighbour in the Shakhura area, News of Bahrain reported on July 8, 2025.
- JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on July 8
Alireza Bagheri, Mehran Habibi and Esmail Valipour
- JULY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 76th Week of No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign
In 47 Prisons Across Iran
- JULY 8, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - ACLU Report Shows How Death Penalty Jury Selection Discriminates
Against Black Americans, Women, and People of Faith
JULY 8, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: SENIOR CITIZEN ACQUITTED OF MURDER, ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE
A senior citizen was acquitted and discharged by the Court of Appeal on July 7, 2025, setting aside his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his disabled stepsister-in-law six years ago.